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# sacrilegious

«sacrilegious» in Mova's school dictionary: **Showing disrespect for something holy; wicked against a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (more sacrilegious, most sacrilegious)

### meaning for a pupil

Showing disrespect for something holy; wicked against a god or holy place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sacrilegious/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

a king or thief who insults the gods in old tales

### examples

- The king paid for his sacrilegious deeds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sacrilegious/#x1)
- It was sacrilegious to steal from the church. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sacrilegious/#x2)
- Their sacrilegious plans were stopped. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sacrilegious/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «sacrilegious» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sacrilegious/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.