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
There is no melodic or harmonic line, only a series of points, dots, dashes, or phrases that sob and scream, despair, explode, exalt, blaspheme.
From Ivory Apes and Peacocks by James Huneker
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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And as with every month the hopelessness of resistance was made plainer and plainer, there came upon me the recklessness of the condemned man who jests or blasphemes to hide his ruth.
From Apologia Diffidentis by O. M. (Ormonde Maddock) Dalton
I make a distinction," Herman put in good naturedly, "between swearing and blasphemy; and Tom never blasphemes.
From The Pagans by Arlo Bates
But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven.
From The Gospel of Luke for Readers by Anonymous
There is no blasphemy but the avowal of thought, and he who speaks what he thinks blasphemes.
From Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll, Volume I Including His Answers to the Clergy, His Oration at His Brother's Grave, Etc., Etc. by Robert Green Ingersoll
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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Then he found a lieutenant, and shook him in vain; further on a captain, and exchanged saddening murmurs with him; further still a camp-follower of African extraction, and blasphemed him.
From The Brigade Commander by J. W. Deforest
I am persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation; and, namely, that you will not suffer the name and truth of God to be, through you, blasphemed and reproached.
From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie
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
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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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