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blasphemous

adjective as in irreverent

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It’s blasphemous in America to suggest anything can rival the NFL, but today, I do not fear the football Gods.

Local media quoted eyewitnesses as saying a man jokingly proposed marriage to the vendor, and her response was considered blasphemous by some people in the area.

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For numerous GOP voters, this suspicion is tied to religious fundamentalism and the very crux of the Scopes trial — that the theory of evolution contradicts the Bible and is, therefore, blasphemous.

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This feels almost blasphemous to say, in a culture that loves a secret.

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The protesters were angry over the display a book by the exiled feminist author Taslima Nasrin, who has in the past received death threats from Islamist groups for what they say are her blasphemous writings.

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