blasphemousness

noun

as in sacrilegiousness

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  1. irreverence
  2. impiety
  3. wickedness
Noun
  • Cassatt matches this irreverence in her paint handling, describing the upholstery in flickering, restless strokes.
    — Carmen Rosenberg-Miller, Artforum, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Listening, empathy, caring, laughing, humor, irreverence, understanding and all the little things that make a human interaction better.
    — Nir Bashan, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of irreverence
Noun
  • By one hand, he is bound to himself, to his impiety, his recklessness, his envy and pride, his guilt and spite.
    — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
Definition of impiety
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  • Miller was bold, having learned of life’s wickedness at an early age.
    — Air Mail, Air Mail, 25 July 2026
  • Max Cady should be an unsettling interruption, a man who undermines our ideas of right and wrong through his nonchalance about his own wickedness; here, the most unsettling thing about him are those teal contact lenses.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 26 June 2026
Definition of wickedness
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