cussverbmainly USold-fashionedinformal
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Swearing and blasphemy
blasphemous
blasphemously
blasphemy
C-word
curse
curse someone/yourself for something/doing something
damn
effing
four-letter word
profane
strong languagephrase
swear
swear jar
swear word
swearing
sweary
sworn
the air is blueidiom
turn the air blueidiom
wash your mouth out (with soap/soapy water)idiom
Examples of blaspheming
blaspheming
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
There are screams, quarrels,
blaspheming and blows; that is the regular technique.
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Mosconi received most of his notoriety for his short-temper and excessive swearing and
blaspheming.
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Do not hang on to the right answers which came from somebody else because you fear they will say you are
blaspheming and you are a heretic.
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Ceolred died in 716,
blaspheming and insane, according to his chroniclers.
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