Thesaurus results for BLASPHEMING

blaspheming

verb

present participle of blaspheme

as in swearing

to use offensive or indecent language shocked that someone would blaspheme in church, of all places

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Recent Examples of blaspheming For his followers, blaspheming the Holocaust and celebrating Hitler became a way to signal contempt for the political religion of postwar liberalism. — Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026 How to say anything about The Changeling without blaspheming its deep mystery, its reverence for the unspeakable, animal heart of creation? — Literary Hub, 10 Feb. 2026

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Those reactions may lead you to respond by rolling your eyes, swearing at the steering wheel or flipping off the driver.

— Jessica Griffin, The Conversation, 6 Aug. 2026
The premise isn’t all that deep, its a bunch of feral alley cats swearing a lot.

— Abid Rahman, HollywoodReporter, 1 Aug. 2026

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Video that the teen lobster diver's family shared with ABC Miami affiliate WSVN allegedly shows Simpson swimming away from the third lung and back to the Contender vessel as people on Del Sol's boat began yelling and cursing at him.

— Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 7 Aug. 2026
Obumseli chronicled their arguments in a series of recordings, which caught Clenney angrily screaming, berating and cursing him out using racist slurs.

— Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 31 July 2026

Definition of cursing

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Meanwhile, a local store director of Nordstrom, Marco Esquivel, was caught berating and cussing at the girls, their mothers and fellow Cunningham supporters.

— Jon Root OutKick, FOXNews.com, 1 Aug. 2026
In the 2015 track, Sonya’s boyfriend finds them by the pool and starts cussing them out, pushing Coley to the ground, who, in turn, punches him.

— Arushi Jacob, Variety, 19 June 2026

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