Meanings of almost sacrilegious in English

You have dreamed, you told me, of strange and almost sacrilegious love.

Most American critics regarded the movie as an almost sacrilegious mistranslation.

It seems almost sacrilegious to trample these exquisite violet-hooded flowers beneath our feet.

To her it seemed almost sacrilegious to parade on Sunday!

HERE'S something that may sound almost sacrilegious in the context of a National League column.

Describing it in two quick sentences felt almost sacrilegious.

But now, nearly there, the suggestion seems almost sacrilegious.

Any hesitation even seemed to him insulting, almost sacrilegious.

Formerly, it was deemed almost sacrilegious to allow reason to intrude into such a sacred domain.

The blood welled to his cheek as he uttered this word that, applied to Reginald, seemed almost sacrilegious.

The realization had been in its almost sacrilegious novelty and daring, a sort of thunderbolt passing through his mind.

But Mahommed Gunga met him in the street, saluted him with almost sacrilegious ceremony, and drew him to one side.

Therefore, in our country he who truly loves God receives such homage from men as would be considered almost sacrilegious in the west.

Nancy, brought up in the traditions of York Hill, felt that it was almost sacrilegious to question the authority of a senior prefect.

It inculcated a reverence for the monarch and his ministers and fostered a deep-rooted sentiment of conservatism which made disloyalty and innovation almost sacrilegious.

The crosses are so deeply embedded in the Irish imagination that it seems almost sacrilegious to ask why they were made in the first place.