as in profane
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
As soon as Talarico’s primary victory over Jasmine Crockett was certain, conservatives called on those remarks and others to swiftly and uniformly deride his Christianity as blasphemous and insincere.
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Elizabeth Bruenig,
The Atlantic,
24 Apr. 2026
The image sparked backlash, including from many American Catholics, who called it blasphemous.
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Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
16 Apr. 2026
The fresh controversy comes two days after Trump posted, then deleted, an image depicting himself as Jesus healing the sick, which many devout Christians, including some of his staunch supporters, slammed as blasphemous.
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Dave Goldiner,
New York Daily News,
15 Apr. 2026
To many Christians, such imagery comparing himself to Christ is considered blasphemous.
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Matthew Stolle,
Twin Cities,
15 Apr. 2026
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Elizabeth Bruenig,
The Atlantic,
24 Apr. 2026
The image sparked backlash, including from many American Catholics, who called it blasphemous.
—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
16 Apr. 2026
The fresh controversy comes two days after Trump posted, then deleted, an image depicting himself as Jesus healing the sick, which many devout Christians, including some of his staunch supporters, slammed as blasphemous.
—
Dave Goldiner,
New York Daily News,
15 Apr. 2026
To many Christians, such imagery comparing himself to Christ is considered blasphemous.
—
Matthew Stolle,
Twin Cities,
15 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for blasphemous
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His father's death during World War II influenced his pursuit of the ministry even amid the officially atheistic communist regime of the Soviet Union, according to his obituary on the OCU website.
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But there has been a recent rise in secular congregations that explicitly mimic religious organizations and rituals to celebrate atheistic worldviews.
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Yet as the populations there shrink, populations are booming in less prosperous and less secular regions, including Africa and the Middle East.
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The encyclical has attracted serious attention from secular quarters as well.
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Even the recipe deemed sacrilegious in Carbonaragate cannot evoke the same dramatic reactions or touch the same sensitivities that surround cheese—a relationship that, like wine and bread, is often inseparable from faith, sometimes quite literally.
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In any other context, a house of God smattered with people staring at their phones, trusting AI to speak to them, might feel sacrilegious.
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Many other traditionalists have made a version of Scruton’s critique, insisting that contemporary art reflects self-indulgent, relativistic, and impious tendencies.
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While no formal announcement has been made to update its longstanding alcohol ban, Andrew Leber of Tulane University said this is in line with the Kingdom’s past approach to such potentially impious reforms.
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Chas Newkey-Burden has been part of The Week Digital team for more than a decade and a journalist for 25 years, starting out on the irreverent football weekly 90 Minutes, before moving to lifestyle magazines Loaded and Attitude.
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The movie had an irreverent spark that felt refreshing, fueling its buoyancy and pumping blood to its ample heart.
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Solstices are often associated with pagan religions and draw revelers of different faiths.
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There’s more than a tinge of folk horror to this lingering mystery, which brings to mind the 1973 genre landmark The Wicker Man, in which a puritanical police officer travels to a remote island community that’s reverted to old pagan ways.
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Crow-Armstrong’s poor offensive start doomed his chance to start, while the bad national publicity stemming from a viral video of his profane reaction to a harassing female White Sox fan probably didn’t help matters.
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And yet, in their quest for culinary perfection, and as Carmy evaluates his decision to retire, the group pulls together without resorting to the profane, deafening chaos that characterized their previous work, almost entirely thanks to Sydney’s opposite-in-every-way leadership style.
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“Blasphemous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blasphemous. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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