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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

"It is not I that blaspheme, but my entrails, on which hunger is playing, as on a fiddle—" "The Swedes will dance to the music," interrupted Volodyovski.

From The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. by Henryk Sienkiewicz

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

From Time Magazine Archive

"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

But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven.

From The Gospel of Luke for Readers by Anonymous

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

Lost lilies, bruised and sodden; Lost faces, gleaming there, Where misery blasphemes the sacred young!

From The Singing Man A Book of Songs and Shadows by Josephine Preston Peabody

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

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

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

From Ewing\'s Lady by Harry Leon Wilson

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

I wasn’t blaspheming, I was asking for information.

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway




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