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Blasphemous

adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Lacking piety or respect for the sacred; resembling blasphemy.

    "His taking the name of God in vain was considered blasphemous."

Adjective
  1. 1
    characterized by profanity or cursing wordnet
  2. 2
    grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred wordnet

Etymology

From Latin blasphēmus (“blaspheming”), from Ancient Greek βλάσφημος (blásphēmos, “uttering ill-omened words”), equivalent to blaspheme + -ous.

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