as in atheistical
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
This may sound blasphemous for a Fixed Earth sign, but spontaneity works best sometimes.
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Valerie Mesa, People.com, 23 Aug. 2025
Hermann would have thought the request blasphemous, but Dad obliged.
—Nancy Walecki, The Atlantic, 7 Aug. 2025
In Europe, the painting was received as a blasphemous shock.
—Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 11 July 2025
While paella has traveled far beyond Spain’s borders—often in versions that are blasphemous to the locals—this region is its ancestral home.
—Sofia Perez, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025
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Valerie Mesa, People.com, 23 Aug. 2025
Hermann would have thought the request blasphemous, but Dad obliged.
—Nancy Walecki, The Atlantic, 7 Aug. 2025
In Europe, the painting was received as a blasphemous shock.
—Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 11 July 2025
While paella has traveled far beyond Spain’s borders—often in versions that are blasphemous to the locals—this region is its ancestral home.
—Sofia Perez, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for blasphemous
Adjective
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But how can considering sincere questions of faith and meaning within a place of worship be sacrilegious or desperate?—
Jordan King,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 Oct. 2025
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Think that's wild and somehow sacrilegious?—
Marcus K. Dowling,
Nashville Tennessean,
27 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Scheeres’s work also inspired me to research the troubled teen industry, the hidden arm of America’s prison industrial complex, a largely unregulated network of religious and secular therapeutic boarding schools, wilderness programs, private youth programs, and drug rehabilitation centers.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Oct. 2025
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The movie subsequently gave its monsters a more secular origin story, the spawn of science run amok rather than some malevolent force of evil.—
Richard Edwards,
Space.com,
21 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The only true dictionary is the lost one, the dictionary of the language that perished when the impious tower was built: the original language, God’s language.—
Mariana Dimópulos,
Harpers Magazine,
26 Mar. 2025
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This game must have seemed profane to the Greeks, or even impious.—
Simone Weil,
Harper's Magazine,
2 July 2024
Adjective
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Susan sounded irreverent, not official.—
NPR,
NPR,
18 Oct. 2025
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Season 27 of the beloved series is a ratings bonanza for Comedy Central, as well as a creative triumph for its showrunners, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, and a delight for fans of irreverent topical satire.—
Kevin Dolak,
HollywoodReporter,
17 Oct. 2025
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“Blasphemous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blasphemous. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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