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blasphemy

Meaning

The act of showing contempt for God or sacred things.

Examples by difficulty

Basic: Simple, everyday vocabulary — the easiest to read.

He laughed aloud, spitting on the altar. The villagers gasped, shocked by such blasphemy. It was an insult to everything they held dear, a defiant disrespect for their sacred traditions.

He spat on the altar, a vile act of blasphemy that made the air grow cold. His laugh, a harsh sound, echoed in the empty church, a clear show of contempt for the stained glass saints and the quiet holiness of the place.

The air crackled with his furious roar, a sound like grinding metal. To hear him mock the rituals, to speak of sacred relics as mere trinkets, felt like a deep wound. That deliberate disrespect, that utter contempt for everything holy, was pure blasphemy.

When Bob wore his lucky pizza hat to church, the preacher looked ready to explode. Bob just shrugged, thinking the hat was divinely inspired, but the congregation gasped. They saw Bob's silly hat as utter blasphemy, a show of contempt for their holy place, and definitely not pizza-related reverence.

Barnaby accidentally used his prized pet hamster, Mr. Wiggles, to scoop jam from the sacred jar during the annual Pickle Festival. The collective gasp that rippled through the crowd was palpable; such an act of contempt for their fermented deity was considered pure blasphemy.

Normal: Standard, everyday language.

He couldn't believe what he heard. To mock the ancient rites, to scoff at what generations held dear, it felt like a profound insult. Such open contempt for sacred traditions, a true blasphemy that sent a chill down his spine.

He spat on the ancient altar, a guttural curse escaping his lips. The elders gasped, their faces pale. To defile the sacred stones was more than disrespect; it was blasphemy, an act that promised divine retribution for its sheer audacity.

The old farmer spat in the dust, his face a mask of fury. To hear his neighbor mock the harvest festival, calling the prayers a waste of time and the ceremonial planting an insult to the earth's bounty, felt like pure blasphemy. He couldn't fathom such disrespect.

My Uncle Earl's attempt to microwave a frozen burrito *inside* a holy water font was truly an act of blasphemy. He claimed it was a "sacred shortcut," but the priest's face suggested otherwise. The resulting smell was... divine punishment.

My Aunt Mildred, bless her cotton socks, once used the sacred recipe for her prize-winning pecan pie as a doorstop during a particularly windy picnic. The utter contempt shown for that hallowed pastry was, dare I say, bordering on pure blasphemy. Her family still hasn't forgiven her, or the pie.

Advanced: Richer vocabulary that stretches an upper-level reader.

He spat on the altar, a crude gesture of utter disrespect. The congregation gasped, their faces a mixture of horror and outrage. Such blasphemy, they whispered, their hearts chilled by his sacrilege.

He stared at the crude etching of the Celestial Weaver, his knuckles white. To deface such a hallowed symbol, to even suggest the divine artistry was flawed through such means, felt like pure blasphemy. The very air in the cramped observatory seemed to thicken with his outrage.

The old woman spat on the cracked altar, her eyes blazing with a fierce, defiant joy. To her, these dusty relics were a mockery of true suffering. Her act, a clear contempt for what others held sacred, felt like a righteous thunderclap in the hushed chapel.

Sir Reginald, after a particularly dismal harvest, declared his prize-winning rutabaga was a divine intervention. His pronouncement, uttered with a wink and a nod to his equally peckish neighbors, was met with gasps. To call a root vegetable a miracle, when they’d endured such gastronomic deprivation, was surely blasphemy of the highest, and frankly, hungriest, order.

Bartholomew, a particularly audacious pigeon, was found perched atop the sacred statue of the Great Grumpy Gopher, meticulously preening its feathers. Its audience of stunned squirrels gasped. Such an ostentatious display of avian indifference to the hallowed grounds was widely considered an act of pure blasphemy, a profound show of contempt for their revered rodent deity.

Challenging: Rare, high-register vocabulary for serious word lovers.

He spat on the ancient fresco, his sneer a testament to his utter disdain for its sanctity. This egregious act, a profound blasphemy, left the faithful aghast, their fervent outrage echoing the sacrilege they had just witnessed.

The old man's audacious pronouncements about the void consuming all creation, delivered with a cocksure smirk, felt like utter blasphemy to the assembled congregation. His dismissal of millennia of sacred doctrine, while staring at the stained glass depicting celestial hierarchies, was a deliberate affront.

The hushed reverence of the ancient temple was shattered by his raucous laughter, a visceral display of contempt for the sacred relics. His deliberate disrespect, the open mockery of what was hallowed, was an undeniable act of blasphemy, a shock that reverberated through the stunned onlookers.

Old Bartholomew, the town's resident curmudgeon, uttered such *blasphemy* when he declared the church's ancient, gilded communion chalice looked suspiciously like a repurposed gravy boat. The congregation, momentarily speechless, found his sacrilegious comparison, while utterly preposterous, undeniably amusing.

The esteemed ornithologist, clutching a moldy scone, uttered such a flagrant blasphemy about the sacred pigeon's preternatural ability to navigate by artisanal cheese fumes that the very pigeons in the park seemed to recoil.

Difficulty

Advanced — Less frequent words that stretch an upper-level vocabulary.

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