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blaspheme

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Definition utter obscenities or profanities; or to speak disrespectfully of something considered sacred — especially of God or religion
  • Will the West stand up for its customs and mores, including freedom of speech, or will Muslims impose their way of life on the West? Ultimately, there is no compromise: Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the right to insult and blaspheme, or not.
    Daniel Pipes
  • Did she blaspheme against the Prophet Muhammad?
  • I'm not one for blaspheming — but that one made me laugh.
    Morgan Freeman
  • Maternity is a cosmic thing and once it has come to pass, our conversation must not be permitted to blaspheme it.
    Ben Lindsey
  • "Why, George Babbitt, I won't have you cursing and swearing and blaspheming!"
    Sinclair Lewis  --  Babbitt
  • After that I ceased to blaspheme, but I cursed my father.
    Alexandre Dumas  --  The Count of Monte Cristo
  • To blaspheme like the Germans—Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.
    Markus Zusak  --  The Book Thief
  • He understood full well that it was GOD who was standing between him and his victim, and he blasphemed him.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe  --  Uncle Tom's Cabin
  • I believe in freedom of speech, the right to offend and blaspheme, as well as the right to convert and bear witness.
    Jay Allison, et al.  --  This I Believe
  • The religion I serve, the God I adore, were blasphemed because I called upon that religion and that God, but still I resisted.
    Alexandre Dumas  --  The Three Musketeers
  • Among them I should have stood like Hymenaeus and Alexander, who were delivered over to Satan that they might learn not to blaspheme.
    Thomas Hardy  --  Tess of the d'Urbervilles
  • And like in that dream I told you about, the chapel—I had this obsession with le blaspheme.
    William Styron  --  Sophie's Choice
  • When a man blasphemes, what do we do?
    Chinua Achebe  --  Things Fall Apart
  • "Hush, don't laugh, blasphemer!
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky  --  Crime and Punishment
  • To make peace with the Horde may defile your Great Romance, but it does not blaspheme Elyon.
    Ted Dekker  --  Red: The Heroic Rescue
  • Bailey was nearly blaspheming.
    Maya Angelou  --  I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
  • You dare blaspheme against the sublimest of the arts!
    George Bernard Shaw  --  Man And Superman
  • But I blaspheme much as I want to.
    Alice Walker  --  The Color Purple
  • But, gentlemen, your business Which you said so urgent, is it only Scolding and blaspheming?
    T.S. Eliot  --  Murder in the Cathedral
  • —beware of the blasphemer's end!"
    Herman Melville  --  Moby Dick

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