sacrilegious

Modifying Another Word

• almost: To suggest any other views in the modern " tolerant " environment feels almost sacrilegious.
• so: Now, these two luminaries are objects of veneration to the African tribes, and they determined to oppose so sacrilegious an enterprise.
• even: To a recumbent old-timer like me, there seems something amazing - even sacrilegious about the ICE range of trikes.

Modifies a noun

• hand: Neither saint nor sanctuary was to be safe from the sacrilegious hands of the heathen from across the North Sea.
• act: For your age, is it not shameful on your part to indulge in such a sacrilegious act of stretching your legs toward God?

Used with adjective complement

• seem: Many of his actions, contrary to all tradition, seemed sacrilegious to the people.
• feel: To suggest any other views in the modern " tolerant " environment feels almost sacrilegious.