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
No great popular agitation has ever been free from lewd fellows of the baser sort, who have given occasion to the enemy to blaspheme.
From Practical Politics; or, the Liberalism of To-day by Alfred Farthing Robbins
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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I make a distinction," Herman put in good naturedly, "between swearing and blasphemy; and Tom never blasphemes.
From The Pagans by Arlo Bates
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 L. (Laura) Valentine
The greedy tradesman blasphemes over his losses; he lies and perjures himself over the price of his wares.
From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Saint Thomas Aquinas
"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
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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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
This thought is brought out also in the next Epistle, namely, that a Christian should guard against giving offense to anybody by his life, lest God's name be blasphemed.
From Epistle Sermons, Vol. III Trinity Sunday to Advent by Martin Luther
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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