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’s fourth fictional novel ran into a global controversy shortly after its publication in September 1988, as some Muslims saw passages about Prophet Muhammad as blasphemous.
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Reuters, NBC News, 8 Nov. 2024
Many Muslims consider depictions of prophets to be blasphemous.
—Reuters, CNN, 4 Nov. 2024
Other critics have called the Trump Bible blasphemous.
—Richard Lardner and Dake Kang, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2024
That conclusion may sound blasphemous in our modern age, when many social scientists and therapists insist that leaving work behind at the end of the day allows one to be a better partner and parent, whereas a failure to compartmentalize one’s job leads to burnout.
—Sara Tillinger Wolkenfeld, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2024
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Reuters, NBC News, 8 Nov. 2024
Many Muslims consider depictions of prophets to be blasphemous.
—Reuters, CNN, 4 Nov. 2024
Other critics have called the Trump Bible blasphemous.
—Richard Lardner and Dake Kang, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2024
That conclusion may sound blasphemous in our modern age, when many social scientists and therapists insist that leaving work behind at the end of the day allows one to be a better partner and parent, whereas a failure to compartmentalize one’s job leads to burnout.
—Sara Tillinger Wolkenfeld, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for blasphemous
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But the French debate over whether to show images of Muhammad, which many Muslims view as sacrilegious, is still being waged today.—
Colette Davidson,
The Christian Science Monitor,
8 Jan. 2025
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Griswold—whose father, once the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, consecrated the denomination’s first openly gay bishop—treats the pastors generously, though gingerly, constructing from their lowest moments an affecting study of sacred life in sacrilegious times.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Aug. 2024
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Lynch plays Cole as a secular prophet, a grand and monumental presence dispensing wisdom and judgment with a self-deprecating yet oracular intensity.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
17 Jan. 2025
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This actually put the current valuation at 25x long-term earnings, which could be considered reasonable with the strong balance sheet and long-term secular growth.—
GuruFocus,
Forbes,
16 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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This game must have seemed profane to the Greeks, or even impious.—
Simone Weil,
Harper's Magazine,
2 July 2024
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Both narratives, private and public, differently restrict our access, so the ideal historian will need great tact and an impious curiosity.—
James Wood,
The New Yorker,
4 Sep. 2023
Adjective
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For The Win's daily sports newsletter pairs the latest news from around the sports world with the smartest − yet somewhat irreverent – takes from FTW's staff.—
Jim Reineking,
USA TODAY,
13 Jan. 2025
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The 2025 edition of the Sundance Film Festival—poised to run from January 23 to February 2 in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah—finds the beloved mountainside showcase at its most idiosyncratic: starry, of course, but also independently minded, irreverent, and often delightfully weird.—
Radhika Seth,
Vogue,
11 Jan. 2025
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“Blasphemous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blasphemous. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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