HOW TO PRONOUNCE
blasphemous
/ˈblæs fə məs/
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BLAS-fuh-muhs: ph makes an f sound.
The first vowel is the a in “cat.” Keep the two following vowels short and unstressed, with a final s rather than z.
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“Officials once condemned the play as blasphemous.”
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adjective
- Lacking piety or respect for the sacred; resembling blasphemy.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈblæs fə məs/
Pronunciation used in the listening tip.
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Americans are given over to the most atrocious swearing, and the blasphemous use of our Savior's name is peculiarly revolting.
This book will be denounced from one end of Christendom to the other as the work of a blasphemous infidel.
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The judge on the bench characterized it as “scandalously blasphemous,” and it certainly reads so, but Burgess meant no blasphemy.
No greater exemplification of it could be given, than the wise and religious rules of the absurd and blasphemous trial by battle.
If, hitherto, any one had dared to maintain the latter alternative, his arguments would have seemed scandalous, blasphemous, and offensive to morality and religion.