as in atheistical
not showing proper reverence for the holy or sacred
Catholics used to believe that anyone but a priest touching a consecrated wafer was blasphemous
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Recent Examples of blasphemous
Rushdie has received death threats ever since 1989, starting with the publication of his novel The Satanic Verses, which was declared by some as blasphemous.
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Kc Baker, People.com, 21 Feb. 2025
The piece was dubbed blasphemous by many Muslims and has been banned in Iran since 1988.
—Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 11 Feb. 2025
Jones is 6'4, right handed, physical, and does all that on the worst team in the league, but Leafs fans act like paying him 9.5M is blasphemous.
—Kevin Papetti, The Athletic, 23 Feb. 2025
Many Muslims found some of the depictions offensive and even blasphemous.
—Lola Fadulu, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
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Kc Baker, People.com, 21 Feb. 2025
The piece was dubbed blasphemous by many Muslims and has been banned in Iran since 1988.
—Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 11 Feb. 2025
Jones is 6'4, right handed, physical, and does all that on the worst team in the league, but Leafs fans act like paying him 9.5M is blasphemous.
—Kevin Papetti, The Athletic, 23 Feb. 2025
Many Muslims found some of the depictions offensive and even blasphemous.
—Lola Fadulu, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for blasphemous
Adjective
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For Western audiences, this abrupt pause may seem like a momentum-killer or even sacrilegious.—
Viren Naidu,
IndieWire,
24 Mar. 2025
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The solution, too good to spoil here, involves a sacrilegious yet principled breach of a basic rule—and a tweak to a pitcher’s very identity.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
7 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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In other words, despite its seeming departure from Maine’s binary logic, the Second World was really a slice of the non-West that, contrary to expectations, embraced an explicitly secular and modernizing agenda: socialism.—
Zachariah Mampilly,
Foreign Affairs,
1 Apr. 2025
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But the church’s decision to make Catholic Charities a separate corporate entity means that this entity is not exempt from the state’s unemployment law — because Catholic Charities itself only provides secular services.—
Ian Millhiser,
Vox,
31 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The only true dictionary is the lost one, the dictionary of the language that perished when the impious tower was built: the original language, God’s language.—
Mariana Dimópulos,
Harpers Magazine,
26 Mar. 2025
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This game must have seemed profane to the Greeks, or even impious.—
Simone Weil,
Harper's Magazine,
2 July 2024
Adjective
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Freewheeling in nature and with a knack for mixing eclectic cultures, Yang proposed a thoughtful collection with an irreverent edge, one consistently framed by Yang’s lineup of Asian female protagonists.—
Tianwei Zhang,
Footwear News,
1 Apr. 2025
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Marking Benna’s feature directorial and editorial debut, André Is an Idiot watches as André, an irreverent man, embarks on an unexpected journey after receiving a terminal diagnosis, determined to maintain his humor while learning to die happily.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
31 Mar. 2025
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“Blasphemous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blasphemous. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.
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