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Adjective
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In Europe, the painting was received as a blasphemous shock.—
Alexandra Schwartz,
New Yorker,
11 July 2025 -
There’s a quiet and, some might argue, blasphemous revolution happening.—
Trinity Francis,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2025
Adjective
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Hold Still ranks among my favorite artist memoirs, in part because of Mann’s no-nonsense, irreverent style, but also because of her keen revelations about the nature of art-making.—
Literary Hub
July 1,
Literary Hub,
1 July 2025
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Lessons Unilever Can Learn from the Dollar Shave Club Experiment Unilever’s reasons for acquiring Dr. Squatch mirrors the rationale for acquiring Dollar Shave Club: cheeky, irreverent marketing that disrupts traditional grooming advertising and connects with male audiences.—
Jennifer J. Fondrevay,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
Adjective
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Surely, there’s something utterly sacrilegious about laughing hysterically at actors giving God the middle finger.—
Michael James Rocha,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
12 June 2025
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Some of this may seem sacrilegious to the F1 fans who got into the sport because of Emerson Fittipaldi, Alain Prost, and Aryton Senna, rather than Drive to Survive, but there’s no denying that the Miami Grand Prix is a success.—
Bryan Hood,
Robb Report,
8 May 2025
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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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While industry agnostic work weeks declined by 0.1 hour to an average of 34.2 hours per week, manufacturing’s weekly average held strong at 40.1 hours.—
Meghan Hall,
Sourcing Journal,
3 July 2025
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According to the 2020 World Christian Database, over half of the population in North Korea agnostic, with around 15 percent atheist, and less than 1 percent Christian.—
Mandy Taheri,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 June 2025
Adjective
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This attempt to turn back the clock included the purging of Christian texts from schools, the conversion of Christian churches into pagan temples, and religious persecution as it had been practiced in centuries past.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
22 Feb. 2025
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Over time, my conquistadors retired, and my pagan temples got demolished to make way for grocery stores.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
12 Feb. 2025
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In the height of World War II, Johann Schmidt uncovers a weapon called the Tesseract and is keen on unlocking its ungodly powers.—
James Brizuela,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 July 2025
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To be sure, Musk still has an ungodly amount of money and an inarguably significant political win under his belt with the re-election of Trump.—
S.E. Cupp,
New York Daily News,
28 May 2025
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Together, these unholy alliances change rules, fire bureaucrats, silence critics, and then eat up the country’s resources.—
Elizabeth David-Barrett,
Foreign Affairs,
4 Apr. 2025
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Given China’s unholy alliance with Russia, Iran, and North Korea — and America’s friendship ...—
Arthur Herman,
National Review,
3 Apr. 2025
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“Profanatory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/profanatory. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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