All 3 Uses of
blasphemy
in
Catch-22
- He had never heard such shocking blasphemies before, and he wondered with instinctive logic why G-men did not appear to lock the traitorous old man up.†
Chpt 23 *
- The chaplain felt most deceitful presiding at funerals, and it would not have astonished him to learn that the apparition in the tree that day was a manifestation of the Almighty's censure for the blasphemy and pride inherent in his function.†
Chpt 25
- It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice.†
Chpt 34
Definition:
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(blasphemy) something said or done that is disrespectful of something considered sacred -- especially God or religion