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blaspheme

[blas-feem, blas-feem] / blæsˈfim, ˈblæs fim /
VERB
curse
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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

Fancy inkstands stood cheek by jowl with wire flower-baskets that were stuffed with crewel roses of such outrageous hues as would make the Angel of Color blaspheme.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. by Various

The consistent mind mocks and distorts life itself, blasphemes and perverts everything in a uni verse that insists on motion.

From Time Magazine Archive

But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven.

From The Gospel of Luke for Readers by Anonymous

It is not certain that he blasphemes," replied the Caliph: "every man may call himself a prophet, provided he proves his mission by miracles.

From Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers by Valentine, L. (Laura)

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 Peabody, Josephine Preston

If she swears, they call her a perjurer; if she weeps, they say that she is acting; and that she blasphemes when she calls on God.

From The Social Cancer by Derbyshire, Charles E.

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

Caron's leader blasphemed softly and dodged into a side tunnel.

From A World is Born by Brackett, Leigh Douglass

In vain was it that Marshal Bugeaud, the veteran of a hundred battles, menaced and blasphemed.

From Edmond Dantès by Flagg, Edmund

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

Cry, sons of earth, blaspheming your parentage, But know that when your futile lives are done Death will despise you who have despised life.

From Time Magazine Archive

I wasn’t blaspheming, I was asking for information.

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway




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