Sample Sentences for
blasphemy
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    Motionless they hung, huge, heavy, steady in the sky, a blasphemy against nature.  (source)
    blasphemy = something done that is disrespectful of something considered sacred
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    She talk and she talk, trying to budge me way from blasphemy.  (source)
    blasphemy = disrespect of something considered sacred
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    Her sudden outburst of laughter bewitched me for the rest of the day. It was as though it—God forgive me for this blasphemy—had descended down on me from Heaven itself... Understand that it wasn't merely her beauty ... that had me so spellbound, though that alone might have been enough.  (source)
    blasphemy = lack of respect for something considered sacred
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    Stop that, Maurice, stop the blasphemy.  (source)
    blasphemy = disrespectful of something considered sacred
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    Daddy isn't skinny or short, but compared to King, who's pure muscle at six feet, he looks tiny. It's damn near blasphemous to think like that though.  (source)
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    a pious work, for which Jekyll had several times expressed a great esteem, annotated, in his own hand, with startling blasphemies.  (source)
    blasphemies = something said disrespectful of something considered sacred
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    After an evening of Gottlieb's acrid doubting, Martin was inspired to hasten to the laboratory and attempt a thousand new queries into the laws of micro-organisms, a task which usually began with blasphemously destroying all the work he had recently done.†  (source)
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    This is blasphemy!  (source)
    blasphemy = disrespectful of something considered sacred
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    "'Ask and it shall be given,' the Bible says. But it ain't so." I felt blasphemous even to think it, much less say it out loud.  (source)
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    To test the steel of our Truth against the blasphemies of Science!  (source)
    blasphemies = things against God or religion
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    A tall, thin woman, probably in her forties, dressed decidedly un-Iranian in a western style business suit with a knee-length skirt, her head blasphemously uncovered, Helen regarded us with sympathetic eyes.†  (source)
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    The ultimate blasphemy had been spoken,  (source)
    blasphemy = something said that is disrespectful of something considered sacred -- especially God or religion
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    To small children, though, the idea of praising God in a tent was confusing, to say the least. It seemed somehow blasphemous.  (source)
    blasphemous = disrespectful of something considered sacred
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