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  • verb Present participle of blaspheme.

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Examples

  • A few months earlier, he'd controversially stood by Asia Bibi, a Christian woman who'd been sentenced to death for "blaspheming" the name of the prophet Muhammad in an argument with Muslim fieldworkers.

    Some thoughts on the shooting in Arizona Ezra Klein 2011

  • How about this: you said elsewhere you won't stand for anyone "blaspheming" against Jesus Christ.

    Sounds Like Fanon Rucker Is Running For Prosecutor Nathaniel Livingston 2004

  • How about this: you said elsewhere you won't stand for anyone "blaspheming" against Jesus Christ.

    Sounds Like Fanon Rucker Is Running For Prosecutor Nathaniel Livingston 2004

  • In their assault, they won't be quoting Oriana Fallaci, the fiery Italian journalist who died earlier this month, who was to be tried in her home country for "blaspheming" Islam, and who, given a chance, would probably have given Bush a tongue-lashing in the Oval Office, calling him an "insipid, quavering Christian more afraid of Allah and Mohammad" than of his own God,

    The Rule of Reason 2010

  • GUJRANWALA, Pakistan, March 24 (CDN) -- Police in Alipur have arrested a Christian woman on a baseless accusation of "blaspheming" the prophet of Islam and tried to keep rights groups from discovering the detention, a Christian leader said.

    Jihad Monitor 2010

  • (The musical, which opened at the National in 2003, enraged Christians for its "blaspheming" of Jesus.)

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • Of particular interest to Rose are the denunciations of dissidents like Solzhenitsyn, who in one case is deplored for "blaspheming" against the Soviet state.

    AFF Doublethink Online Jacob Laksin 2009

  • Some people act like America will come to an end from 'blaspheming' like this shit, but it will be the promise that you can be who and what you want, and you won't be discriminated against, just to find yourself discriminated against.

    WordPress.com News 2008

  • "blaspheming" president Egyptian Hosny Mubarak during a recent demonstration in Amman, the pro-government al-Rai newspaper reported Monday.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

  • It had been the one fundamentalist Christian boarding school in the entire liberal, anarchistic, blaspheming state of Connecticut.

    Raziel Kristine Douglas 2011

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