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Definition of blasphemous :
Speaking or writing blasphemy; uttering or exhibiting anything impiously irreverent; profane; as, a blasphemous person; containing blasphemy; as, a blasphemous book; a blasphemous caricature.
Synonyms:
downcast, sorry, aristocratic, low-spirited, naughty, dingy, spicy, patrician, drab, down, blueish, sacred, grim, gentle, dismal, aristocratical, drear, downhearted, down in the mouth, blue-blooded, low, bluish, dark, juicy, unsanctified, gamey, depressed, puritanic, disconsolate, blue, risque, secular, dirty, puritanical, gloomy, dispirited, dreary, racy, unconsecrated, gamy
impious (part of speech: adjective)
sinful, unchristian, atheistic, godless, profane, fallen, sacrilegious, irreverent, impious, ungodly, irreligious, unholy, wayward, unfaithful
Usage examples:
- His good angel fought hard for him that day; fought and struggled and hoped, until the miserable man, torn this way and that, ended the struggle with a blasphemous yell by tearing the letter to atoms. - "Put Yourself in His Place", Charles Reade.
- " Then," cried Beck, suddenly rising, black with choler, and stretching his crosier over the head of Wallace, " as the rod of Moses shed plagues, miseries, and death over the land of Egypt, I invoke the like judgments to fall on this rebellious land, on its blasphemous leader! - "The Scottish Chiefs", Jane Porter.
- To gaze at unqualified and inevitable moral defeat will but leave us to the still worse laziness of pessimism, uttering its discouraging and blasphemous cry, 'It does not matter; nothing will ever come right! - "Robert Louis Stevenson a Record, an Estimate, and a Memorial", Alexander H. Japp.