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.
—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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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
Adjective
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Directed by Nicolas Athane and Marco Nguyen, Jim Queen is a crass, profane, giddily stupid romp through a heap of stereotypes about gay life in Paris.—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
17 May 2026
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This is all, of course, a provocation, a way of merging the sacred and profane, and asking which is which.—
Megan Garber,
The Atlantic,
12 May 2026
Adjective
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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.—
Andrew R. Chow,
Time,
26 May 2026
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Call me sacrilegious, but there’s one place that a King’s Hawaiian roll tastes even better than the altar rail, and that’s at the beach.—
Betsy Cribb Watson,
Southern Living,
25 May 2026
Adjective
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Its secular cast was not its only imprint.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
8 June 2026
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At least, not according to received wisdom in the secular twenty-first-century West.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 June 2026
Adjective
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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.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
20 Mar. 2026
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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.—
Jacqui Frost,
The Conversation,
11 Jan. 2024
Adjective
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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.—
Luis Parrales,
The Atlantic,
28 Apr. 2026
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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.—
Hugh Cameron,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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For young men feeling dejected by the public conversation about toxic masculinity, Tate’s celebrations of manhood were galvanizing, and his mocking assaults on feminism felt bracingly irreverent.—
Heidi Blake,
New Yorker,
8 June 2026
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Bernardi prefers to craft a new panto each year but the enthusiastic response to the company’s irreverent 2022 reworking of the Charles Dickens classic, both from audiences and from the actors who were in it, led to this revival.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
8 June 2026
Adjective
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Glenn Turner, the former owner of a pagan and metaphysical shop, is running as a member of the Green Party.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
1 May 2026
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For decades, the Georgia Guidestones were nothing more than kitschy roadside Americana – a curiosity people visited for fun, intrigue, and the occasional pagan ritual.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
21 Apr. 2026
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“Blasphemous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blasphemous. Accessed 9 Jun. 2026.
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