blaspheme
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“I don’t really understand how you can blaspheme about something that happened, even in 1625,” he said, offering up excerpts from Brown’s book.
From New York Times ● Jul. 10, 2021
President Emmanuel Macron spoke out in support of the teenager, arguing that in France "we have the right to blaspheme".
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2021
I’m about to blaspheme here, so hold onto your knickers, Dodger fans, but Vin Scully used to have me snoring by the fourth inning, his drone being the perfect cure for insomnia.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2021
Mila has appeared on French television to say she did not regret the video and to defend the right to blaspheme.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 12, 2020
I am ashamed to say what is the breadth of the land of promise, lest I should thereby give the pagans occasion to blaspheme.
From The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets by Richard B. Westbrook
The consistent mind mocks and distorts life itself, blasphemes and perverts everything in a uni verse that insists on motion.
From Time Magazine Archive
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"It's their damned duty," says George the Pious, who never blasphemes on his own account, but allows himself some license concerning his subjects.
From Secret Memoirs: The Story of Louise, Crown Princess by Henry W. (Henry William) Fischer
But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven.
From The Gospel of Luke for Readers by Anonymous
Lost lilies, bruised and sodden; Lost faces, gleaming there, Where misery blasphemes the sacred young!
From The Singing Man A Book of Songs and Shadows by Josephine Preston Peabody
Whereas, outside, the man stood like a rock, and let Fate seam or bleach him bare; here, within walls, he rages, shows his teeth, blasphemes, or sinks into sloth.
From The Spanish Jade by William Henry Hyde
Juan de Salas stood before the inquisitor Moriz in Vallalodid on June 21, 1527, and once again denied he had blasphemed the evangelists.
From Salon ● Dec. 5, 2015
"I've had a lot more fun watching and arguing about the Twilight movies than I ever had with the Star Wars saga, that lumbering, narratively hobbled space opera," he blasphemed recently.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 15, 2012
"Texas" blasphemed, tried the door, finally fired through it.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The Holy Spirit, whom their enemies opposed and blasphemed, would speak through them; he would teach them both how and what to say, vs.
From The Gospel of Luke, An Exposition by Charles Rosenbury Erdman
Saith the Lord, “Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.”
From The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan by Ellen Gould Harmon White
The wonderfully blaspheming Ella, who is wise to everyone’s deceits, steals many of the scenes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
As he saw it, what his son was doing, like what the sunbathers and the bikers were doing, was not blaspheming the memorial: There can be no forgetting, he said.
From New York Times ● May 28, 2014
“Bill, you’re blaspheming me,” Mr. Icahn complained, according to Mr. Ackman.
From New York Times ● Nov. 26, 2011
The maximum penalty for blaspheming, destroying hops, burning a haystack, or "maliciously damaging a river bank" is still life imprisonment.
From Time Magazine Archive
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I wasn’t blaspheming, I was asking for information.
From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
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