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• His lack of social grace made him anathema at dinner parties.From the entry social grace
• Such literature may well be anathema to those, who are too docile and petty for their own good.From the entry docile
• But the mere mention of garden design is anathema to many people; they love a "rambly" garden.1947, Kenneth Hamlyn McConnel, Rex Hazlewood, Planning the Australian homestead, page 100. From the entry rambly
• The corollary to this principle of Petrinity is that any entity that threatens or denies the papacy its primacy is anathema.2016, Jehangi Yezdi Malegam, “Pro-Papacy Polemic and the Purity of the Church: The Gregorian Reform”, in A Companion to the Medieval…. From the entry Petrinity
• The very thought of having even a secure landfill anywhere near them is anathema to most Americans today.1980 November 6, Emilie Travel Livezey, “Hazardous waste”, in The Christian Science Monitor. From the entry nimby
• They drink, for one thing, sweet ports as preprandials, anathema to most English, who consider them digestifs, or after-dinner company.1974, Chicago Guide, volume 23, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 143, column 1. From the entry preprandial
• The conference had been convened by a group that wanted to defend two positions that have made radical feminism anathema to much of the left.2014 August 4, Michelle Goldberg, “What Is A Woman? The Dispute between Radical Feminism and Transgenderism”, in The New Yorker. From the entry radical feminism
• Two anathemas of academic historians of science have been attracting a certain amount of interest in the history of science blogo-twittersphere lately.2012 October 3, Rebekah Higgitt, “Why whiggish won't do”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry whiggishness
• Lexiphanics, especially those who write for a living, usually have to hide their penchant for words from slashing editors, to whom such tendencies are anathema.1983 April 9, Carol Goodwin, “Sesquipedalian nimiety is fustian”, in Kitchener-Waterloo Record, city edition, 106th year, Kitchener, Ont.…. From the entry lexiphanic
• But to have as an enforced dining companion a man who was probably a Papist, certainly a rake, and bore the stigma of cowardice, was anathema.2023 September 8, David Donachie, A Shred of Honour: A Markham of the Marines Novel, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 2. From the entry stigma
• Some people add coffee beans or cinnamon sticks to their patxaran during maceration, though this considered anathema by patxaran purists and the body that governs its production.2018, Marti Buckley, Basque Country: A Culinary Journey Through a Food Lover's Paradise, Artisan Books, →ISBN, page 305. From the entry patxaran
• Zyuganov has also expressed ultranationalistic views — including suggesting that Zionists and Jews have too much influence in Russia and the world — that were anathema to liberals.2007 December 9, Clifford J. Levy, “Look Who's Still Standing in Russia”, in New York Times. From the entry ultranationalistic
• Antifeminism has been a credible cover and an effective vehicle because the hatred of women is not politically anathema on either the Right or the Left.2000, Sheila Ruth, Issues in Feminism. From the entry of
• But for this government to load up funding to the wealthiest schools in this country is anathema to the great Aussie notion of a fair go for all.1944, Australian Parliament, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard): House of Representatives, volume 266, page 32254. From the entry fair go
• But despite all this, for Barkan, the universalist notion of an 'Ottoman feudalism' was anathema: he castigated this idea as the concentrated expression of the anti-Ottomanism of the Kemalist Enlightenment.2016, Halil Berktay, Suraiya Faroqhi, New Approaches to State and Peasant in Ottoman History, Routledge, page 150. From the entry castigate

Meaning of anathema

1. noun A ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, often accompanied by excommunication; something denounced as accursed.
2. noun Something which is vehemently disliked by somebody.
3. noun An imprecation; a curse; a malediction.

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How do you use anathema in a sentence?

Anathema is used as a noun. For example: “His lack of social grace made him anathema at dinner parties.”

What is a short sentence with anathema?

““Assumptions are anathema to communication.” “You're anathema.”

What does anathema mean?

Anathema means a ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, often accompanied by excommunication; something denounced as accursed.