Sample sentences for BLASPHEMY

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Definition

something said or done that is disrespectful of something considered sacred — especially God or religion

blasphemy = disrespect of something considered sacred

It's hard to believe that even in the 21st century, high school teachers in the country are still occasionally imprisoned and/or lashed for blasphemy.

blasphemy = disrespect of something considered sacred

To small children, though, the idea of praising God in a tent was confusing, to say the least. It seemed somehow blasphemous.
Maya Angelou -- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

blasphemous = disrespectful of something considered sacred

God's knowledge surpasses science, and it's blasphemous for you to say otherwise, young lady.
P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast -- Marked

blasphemous = disrespectful of something considered sacred

A thousand bawdy, or even blasphemous, jokes do not help towards a man's damnation so much as his discovery that almost anything he wants to do can be done, not only without the disapproval but with the admiration of his fellows, if only it can get itself treated as a Joke.
C.S. Lewis -- The Screwtape Letters

blasphemous = disrespectful of something considered sacred

And this foul mouth stands there bringing more ill fortune with his blasphemies.
Ernest Hemingway -- For Whom the Bell Tolls

blasphemies = disrespect of that which is sacred

Clement's letter claimed that God had visited him in a vision and warned him that the Knights Templar were heretics guilty of devil worship, homosexuality, defiling the cross, sodomy, and other blasphemous behavior.
Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code

blasphemous = people who are disrespectful of things commonly considered sacred

...it seemed blasphemous not to thank God.
Henry James -- The Turn of the Screw

blasphemous = disrespectful of something sacred

Such declarations are blasphemy and an abomination to the Lord God in heaven, Señor Shaw.
Alexs Pate -- Amistad

blasphemy = disrespectful of something considered sacred

blasphemy = something said or done that is disrespectful of something considered sacred

Fusing science and God is the ultimate scientific blasphemy.
Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons

blasphemy = disrespect of something considered sacred

...his voice thundered, and we fell back in horror at the blasphemy he uttered.
Rudolfo Anaya -- Bless Me, Ultima

blasphemy = something said that is disrespectful of something considered sacred — especially God or religion

She talk and she talk, trying to budge me way from blasphemy.
Alice Walker -- The Color Purple

blasphemy = disrespect of something considered sacred

Behind her Jace muttered something that sounded distinctly blasphemous.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Bones

blasphemous = disrespectful of something considered sacred

But we cannot reach it without disturbing our ancestors, a blasphemy Plumpka will not permit.
Henry H. Neff -- The Maelstrom

blasphemy = disrespectful of something considered sacred

blasphemy = disrespectful of something considered sacred

blasphemy = disrespectful of something considered sacred

It is a blasphemy against the true Image of God, and hateful in the sight of God.
John Wyndham -- The Chrysalids

blasphemy = disrespectful of something considered sacred

blasphemy = disrespectful of something considered sacred

you bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog!
William Shakespeare -- The Tempest

blasphemous = disrespectful of that which is sacred

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