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blasphemous
[ blas-fuh-muhs ]
adjective
- uttering, containing, or exhibiting blasphemy; irreverent; profane.
Synonyms: iconoclastic, impious, sacrilegious, apostate, irreligious
blasphemous
/ ˈblæsfɪməs /
adjective
- expressing or involving impiousness or gross irreverence towards God, a divine being, or something sacred
Derived Forms
- ˈblasphemously, adverb
Other Words From
- blasphe·mous·ly adverb
- blasphe·mous·ness noun
- non·blasphe·mous adjective
- non·blasphe·mous·ly adverb
- non·blasphe·mous·ness noun
- semi·blasphe·mous adjective
- semi·blasphe·mous·ly adverb
- semi·blasphe·mous·ness noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of blasphemous1
Word History and Origins
Origin of blasphemous1
Example Sentences
The Kenya Film Classification Board said was “blasphemous” because it promoted “values that are in dissonance with our constitution, culture, values and norms.”
For me, removing doubt from faith is heresy and most evangelicals I know are blasphemous in their certainty of all things related to understanding God.
Determined to reunite his family and drawn by a desire to be with his beautiful, identical brother, Dominic soon embarks on a path that will embroil him with all the others in a blasphemous web of sex, revenge, and redemption.
The Bible includes a passage in the Book of Revelation that says anyone who adds to the words of the Bible will be cursed, which lead many Christians to believe that adding anything to scripture would be blasphemous, Miller said.
The best parts of such a book are supposed to be blasphemous.
In a blasphemous new novel Irish writer Colm Tóibín writes from the perspective of the Virgin Mary.
After hearing the blasphemous clips insulting our beloved prophet, I would not hesitate to go after revenge.
Their services at first struck everyone as blasphemous; but one gets used to everything in this country.
To any one who believes God to be omnipresent, the idea of His having ambassadors, or vicars upon earth, is blasphemous.
This was so general a custom that the Church published an ordinance against it as an impious and blasphemous usage.
This sounded blasphemous, while it gave me a sort of fearful joy.
At these blasphemous sounds, the pillars of the sanctuary were shaken.
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