blasphemous
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8.4
- adjective
- /blæsˈfɛməs/
- Offensive
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blasfemo
- The absurdities that they spew now are blasphemous and amazing in their cleverness.
- blasphemous act
- blasphemous and obscene
- considered blasphemous
The Islamic standpoint on our Lord and Saviour is the most blasphemous and egregious, that he is not God.
- The Islamic standpoint on our Lord and Saviour is the most blasphemous and egregious, that he is not God.
- Then he he adds, they claim the Harizi arc was motivated by a blasphemous desire.
- Some, I suspect, would find it blasphemous, though the idea of man healing God is outrageous.
- You've been putting our kids in cages and it's based on this flawed, A blasphemous ideology called evangelical Christianity.
- So I thought what a blasphemous time that was.
- I feel like blasphemous for saying it, but what can I say?
- But just warning, if you're in Canada, sometimes man those import fees can just be blasphemous.
- And, and so, and, and also I don't have those really negative attachments of sort of it being blasphemous or wrong.
- Notice if you say you're an aspect of God or an expression of God, When people use the word God, that's blasphemous.
Examples
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Writers are free to publish blasphemous books, plays, and poems.
Academic text (2010) -
Melville's work was too metaphysical and blasphemous for this conservative reviewer.
Academic text (2004) -
It's a terrible suggestion, almost blasphemous.
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This is a blasphemous venture, brother St. Hillaire.
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Some, I suspect, would find it blasphemous, though the idea of man healing God is outrageous.
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How can I write something so outrageous, so blasphemous, so contrary to church teachings?
Academic text (1998) -
Seeking to compete with North American baseball, or as it called itself, "organized baseball," was blasphemous and unthinkable.
Academic text (1994) -
Preserving tradition with the sacrifice of its living bearers seems at best unreasonable, at worst blasphemous.
Academic text (1990) -
Many in the community found the artist's latest work to be blasphemous for its depictions of sacred figures.
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The professor was criticized for making blasphemous remarks about religious beliefs during the lecture.
Synonyms
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3.0
Not polite to someone, for example interrupting them
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7.7
Showing no respect for holy things and often using rude words
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9.0
Showing great disrespect to things people consider sacred
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9.6
Not showing respect for God or sacred things
Showing disrespect for things people think are holy
Antonyms
How Irreverent
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word blasphemous comes from a Greek word blasphemein that meant 'to speak evil' or 'to hurt by speaking'. So something called blasphemous is a word or act that attacks or shows disrespect for what people see as 'sacred'.