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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

Such errors provoke the man who reads his Shakespeare poetically, and make him blaspheme our knowledge.

From Oxford Lectures on Poetry by Bradley, Andrew Cecil

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Whereas, outside, the man stood like a rock, and let Fate seam or bleach him bare; here, within walls, he rages, shows his teeth, blasphemes, or sinks into sloth.

From The Spanish Jade by Hyde, William Henry

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)

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.

I make a distinction," Herman put in good naturedly, "between swearing and blasphemy; and Tom never blasphemes.

From The Pagans by Bates, Arlo

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

Earth-worm!" cried the spirit in a voice that rolled like thunder; "I could smash you to atoms if I would, for you have blasphemed against the lord of the forest.

From The Marvellous History of the Shadowless Man and The Cold Heart by Chamisso, Adelbert von

It embarrassed him now to hear its pathos blasphemed, embarrassed him because he felt a sort of shamed mirth.

From Ewing\'s Lady by Wilson, Harry Leon

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

He speaks through the mouth of one of his characters, a scholar who has studied the case of Manuel: "The Lord who knows the bottom of our Mexican souls knows that I am not blaspheming."

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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