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
Nine tenths of the men who talk in this way do but blaspheme Love by taking his name in vain.”
From A Rose of a Hundred Leaves A Love Story by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
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
Thus mouths and blasphemes round about An age in bondage to its doubt.
From Song-waves by Theodore H. (Theodore Harding) Rand
"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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That blasphemed the bright Lyrist face to face, And did not know it,—no, they went about, Holding a poor decrepit standard out Marked with most flimsy mottoes, and in large The name of one Boileau!
From Shelburne Essays, Third Series by Paul Elmer More
It is really hard for me to tell whether I have blasphemed the Deity or the Democracy.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 7 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Robert Green Ingersoll
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
Scot, who grew up Christian in Muslim Pakistan, fled to Australia in 1987 after he was charged with blaspheming against the Prophet Muhammad, an offense punishable by death.
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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