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单词 blasphemous
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Definition of blasphemous in English:

blasphemous

adjective ˈblasfəməsˈblæsfəməs
  • Sacrilegious against God or sacred things; profane.

    blasphemous and heretical talk
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I don't see why you have to look at it as so blasphemous.
    • The following query may be a bit blasphemous but I shall ask anyway as it has been preying my mind for a while.
    • I suspect that it is probably sacrilegious or even blasphemous to suggest such a thing.
    • The people who stay there are at the same time loyal and treacherous, pious and blasphemous, violent and generous.
    • Already they are blaspheming and doing blasphemous things against the church.
    • Calendars such as the one shown in the example are blasphemous.
    • A student once came to me troubled with blasphemous thoughts racing through his mind.
    • After she jimmied her way inside, she punched the pulpit and made blasphemous gestures to the icons.
    • I believe that they should bail out of a blasphemous and unholy organization that is going down, hard.
    • Later religions considered this concept blasphemous, as it was akin to man proclaiming himself as God.
    • The application of logic and free discussion to theological questions was considered blasphemous.
    • It may be that this concerns us little, for we remember saying no blasphemous words.
    • The Iconoclasts asserted that religious images were both blasphemous and impossible.
    • The story begins, as we all know, with his blasphemous worship of his gold.
    • The beast does things in the name of God, yet is blasphemous because the motives are wrong.
    • So what is really so blasphemous and guilt-imposing about magic?
    • I was told to pray, and I mocked them, because I couldn't see the point in it, so I was punished for being blasphemous.
    • As Chesterton said, if you want to know what a culture holds sacred, just look at what it considers blasphemous.
    • The church hierarchy condemned it as blasphemous.
    • Applying the attribute of reverence to a mortal being borders on the blasphemous.
    Synonyms
    sacrilegious, profane, irreligious, irreverent, impious, ungodly, godless, unholy, disrespectful
    archaic execratory, execrative
    rare imprecatory

Derivatives

  • blasphemously

  • adverbˈblasfəməsliˈblæsfəməsli
    • There's more, much more, and it's all blasphemously funny.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I got to my feet and stalked into the graveyard, blasphemously passing over old graves and fake flower arrangements.
      • He wants to promulgate an extreme form of the religion he blasphemously claims to represent.
      • They discover that it's socially acceptable to flatter your bosses by day so long as you are blasphemously derisive about them while drinking with your buddies at night.
      • Is this a comment on religious relics and iconography, or is she blasphemously raising her work to the level of the sacred?

Origin

Late Middle English: via ecclesiastical Latin from Greek blasphēmos 'evil-speaking' + -ous.

 
 

Definition of blasphemous in US English:

blasphemous

adjectiveˈblasfəməsˈblæsfəməs
  • Sacrilegious against God or sacred things; profane.

    blasphemous and heretical talk
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The following query may be a bit blasphemous but I shall ask anyway as it has been preying my mind for a while.
    • I don't see why you have to look at it as so blasphemous.
    • The story begins, as we all know, with his blasphemous worship of his gold.
    • Later religions considered this concept blasphemous, as it was akin to man proclaiming himself as God.
    • So what is really so blasphemous and guilt-imposing about magic?
    • Already they are blaspheming and doing blasphemous things against the church.
    • I suspect that it is probably sacrilegious or even blasphemous to suggest such a thing.
    • The application of logic and free discussion to theological questions was considered blasphemous.
    • As Chesterton said, if you want to know what a culture holds sacred, just look at what it considers blasphemous.
    • The beast does things in the name of God, yet is blasphemous because the motives are wrong.
    • The Iconoclasts asserted that religious images were both blasphemous and impossible.
    • A student once came to me troubled with blasphemous thoughts racing through his mind.
    • I was told to pray, and I mocked them, because I couldn't see the point in it, so I was punished for being blasphemous.
    • The church hierarchy condemned it as blasphemous.
    • It may be that this concerns us little, for we remember saying no blasphemous words.
    • Applying the attribute of reverence to a mortal being borders on the blasphemous.
    • I believe that they should bail out of a blasphemous and unholy organization that is going down, hard.
    • Calendars such as the one shown in the example are blasphemous.
    • The people who stay there are at the same time loyal and treacherous, pious and blasphemous, violent and generous.
    • After she jimmied her way inside, she punched the pulpit and made blasphemous gestures to the icons.
    Synonyms
    sacrilegious, profane, irreligious, irreverent, impious, ungodly, godless, unholy, disrespectful

Origin

Late Middle English: via ecclesiastical Latin from Greek blasphēmos ‘evil-speaking’ + -ous.

 
 
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