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
While paella has traveled far beyond Spain’s borders—often in versions that are blasphemous to the locals—this region is its ancestral home.
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Sofia Perez, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025
For me, being a man controlled by God, things that are blasphemous always alert me.
—Angel Diaz, Billboard, 2 May 2025
Many Muslims found some of the depictions offensive and even blasphemous.
—Lola Fadulu, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
The piece was dubbed blasphemous by many Muslims and has been banned in Iran since 1988.
—Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 11 Feb. 2025
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Sofia Perez, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025
For me, being a man controlled by God, things that are blasphemous always alert me.
—Angel Diaz, Billboard, 2 May 2025
Many Muslims found some of the depictions offensive and even blasphemous.
—Lola Fadulu, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
The piece was dubbed blasphemous by many Muslims and has been banned in Iran since 1988.
—Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 11 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for blasphemous
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blasphemous
Adjective
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Any extra trimmings would land somewhere between glib and sacrilegious.—
Sophie Monks Kaufman,
IndieWire,
3 Sep. 2025
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Drinking a Bloody Mary at night just feels wrong and confusing, sacrilegious even, which is hilarious because everything else goes.—
Jeremy Repanich,
Robb Report,
30 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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All of it has a deeper religious meaning, but is also intended to appeal to the secular and spiritual.—
Lauren Costantino,
Miami Herald,
10 Sep. 2025
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Conversely, several secular growth trends are also benefitting the stock, including increasing mobile app usage and the rise of connected TV advertising.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 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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The whole this is very slapstick and irreverent, and the story is advanced almost exclusively by wacky deus ex machinas.—
James Folta,
Literary Hub,
10 Sep. 2025
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Her voice in the essays is sly and irreverent, knowing and persuasive—all qualities that endeared her to readers, despite her often excessively Manichean tone.—
Anderson Tepper,
The Atlantic,
8 Sep. 2025
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“Blasphemous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blasphemous. Accessed 12 Sep. 2025.
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