blaspheme
verb (used with object)
to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
was blaspheming
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past progressiveof blaspheme.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Blenkiron had got very red, and I could see that he was blaspheming violently under his breath.
From Mr. Standfast by John Buchan
Oh! /mon Dieu/," murmured Abbe Judaine, who heard the doctor, "he was blaspheming.
From The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 5 by Émile Zola
Whereby I understood that Eustace Cleever, decorator and colourman in words, was blaspheming his own Art, and would be sorry for this in the morning.
From Soldiers Three - Part 2 by Rudyard Kipling
For he was blaspheming against the holiest thing known to a Missourian, and could NOT be in his right mind.
From What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain
The Leader stopped; and to that one I said Who was blaspheming vehemently still: "Who art thou, that thus reprehendest others?"
From Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Complete by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
