SACRILEGE

n. 1 desecration, profanation, debasement, violation, prostitution, dishonouring, vitiation, defilement, befouling, fouling, contamination, befoulment, misuse, abuse, perversion, maltreatment The horrendous Buckinghamshire county office building is an example of architectural sacrilege 2 impiety, heresy, profanation, outrage, violation, profanity, blasphemy, impiousness, irreverence, disrespect, secularization It was an unscrupulous sacrilege to appropriate to his own use the offerings to the gods