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Recent Examples of blaspheme
How to say anything about The Changeling without blaspheming its deep mystery, its reverence for the unspeakable, animal heart of creation?
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Literary Hub, 10 Feb. 2026
Watching Rome, Shiv, and Ken attempt to battle, scrape, and betray their way into their father’s heart—and, conversely, seeing Logan withhold, meter out, and blaspheme his version of love back at them—propelled Succession through four glorious seasons.
—John Ortved, Vogue, 29 Oct. 2025
Carter, along with President Gerald Ford, restored truth and honesty to the White House after Nixon blasphemed the White House with his corruption, his manipulation and his devious ways.
—Dave Anderson, Baltimore Sun, 31 Dec. 2024
Greg has been blasphemed on national hockey shows up there, eh?
—Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 5 June 2024
Earlier this month, Abdul Rauf, a Muslim English teacher, was gunned down in Turbat after his students accused him of blaspheming in one of his lectures.
—Hasan Ali, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Aug. 2023
In one infamous case in 2010, Asia Bibi, a Christian woman, was sentenced to death, accused of blaspheming Islam.
—New York Times, 4 May 2020
To disguise ourselves forever would be to blaspheme his work of redeeming the world.
—Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 30 Mar. 2020
Witnesses at the mosque said Abdelrhim Abdelghani shoved his way in at about 4 p.m., swiped a Quran off a shelf, took it to the nearby intersection of Northwest Fourth Avenue and Northwest 15th Vista and began defiling and blaspheming the holy book.
—Tonya Alanez, sun-sentinel.com, 26 June 2019
Literary Hub, 10 Feb. 2026
Watching Rome, Shiv, and Ken attempt to battle, scrape, and betray their way into their father’s heart—and, conversely, seeing Logan withhold, meter out, and blaspheme his version of love back at them—propelled Succession through four glorious seasons.
—John Ortved, Vogue, 29 Oct. 2025
Carter, along with President Gerald Ford, restored truth and honesty to the White House after Nixon blasphemed the White House with his corruption, his manipulation and his devious ways.
—Dave Anderson, Baltimore Sun, 31 Dec. 2024
Greg has been blasphemed on national hockey shows up there, eh?
—Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 5 June 2024
Earlier this month, Abdul Rauf, a Muslim English teacher, was gunned down in Turbat after his students accused him of blaspheming in one of his lectures.
—Hasan Ali, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Aug. 2023
In one infamous case in 2010, Asia Bibi, a Christian woman, was sentenced to death, accused of blaspheming Islam.
—New York Times, 4 May 2020
To disguise ourselves forever would be to blaspheme his work of redeeming the world.
—Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 30 Mar. 2020
Witnesses at the mosque said Abdelrhim Abdelghani shoved his way in at about 4 p.m., swiped a Quran off a shelf, took it to the nearby intersection of Northwest Fourth Avenue and Northwest 15th Vista and began defiling and blaspheming the holy book.
—Tonya Alanez, sun-sentinel.com, 26 June 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blaspheme
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Kennedy received a verbal warning from governing body World Curling a day after the feisty back-and-forth with the Swedish team, when fingers were pointed and the Canadian player repeatedly swore.—
STEVE DOUGLAS,
Arkansas Online,
15 Feb. 2026
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On the ice, they’re sworn enemies.—
Hannah Ryan,
CNN Money,
14 Feb. 2026
Verb
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The agency points to the conduct of some protesters, who follow officers with their cars, block them in the street, curse at their faces, blow ear-piercing whistles and clamor outside their hotels at night.—
Natasha Korecki,
NBC news,
14 Feb. 2026
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After the beach, everyone goes to Tower 12, a bar that is now cursed by the spirit of Sandoval, and no one who goes there will ever know a moment’s peace.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
11 Feb. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Blaspheme.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blaspheme. Accessed 20 Feb. 2026.
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