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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

But how is it possible to blaspheme a day?

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 7 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Robert Green Ingersoll

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

My husband blasphemes the fierce winds and extreme cold in a very picturesque manner; but the disapprobation he feels is a moral ope, not a physical discomfort.

From Memories of Hawthorne by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop

Thus mouths and blasphemes round about An age in bondage to its doubt.

From Song-waves by Theodore H. (Theodore Harding) Rand

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 William Henry Hyde

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

Caron's leader blasphemed softly and dodged into a side tunnel.

From A World is Born by Leigh Douglass Brackett

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

Cry, sons of earth, blaspheming your parentage, But know that when your futile lives are done Death will despise you who have despised life.

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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