blaspheme
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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
"He wanted to say something more, but he did not dare blaspheme, and there was silence again in the little cottage...."
From Contemporary Russian Novelists by Serge Persky
The consistent mind mocks and distorts life itself, blasphemes and perverts everything in a uni verse that insists on motion.
From Time Magazine Archive
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But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven.
From The Gospel of Luke for Readers by Anonymous
And as with every month the hopelessness of resistance was made plainer and plainer, there came upon me the recklessness of the condemned man who jests or blasphemes to hide his ruth.
From Apologia Diffidentis by O. M. (Ormonde Maddock) Dalton
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
"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
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
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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
And this my glory wilt thou in due time manifest and bring to light; that by thy glorifying of me, the world may see who it is whom they have blasphemed and persecuted.”
From True Christianity by Johann Arndt
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
He speaks through the mouth of one of his characters, a scholar who has studied the case of Manuel: "The Lord who knows the bottom of our Mexican souls knows that I am not blaspheming."
From Time Magazine Archive
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I wasn’t blaspheming, I was asking for information.
From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
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