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单词 Bible-basher
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Definition of Bible-basher in English:

Bible-basher

noun
British informal
  • A person who expounds or follows the teachings of the Bible in an aggressively evangelical way.

    North American term Bible-thumper
    Example sentencesExamples
    • A tongue-in-cheek critique of fanatical Bible-thumpers, the movie has great acting performances.
    • Following my account of my verbal duel with the young Bible-thumper last month, I received a number of very abusive criticisms via e-mail, from three different posters.
    • And finally there's Natasha, a Bible-basher with a difference.
    • This is why ‘fundamentalism,’ in my view, is basically a modern movement, sprung as much from Enlightenment atheists as from Bible-thumpers.
    • Fortunately progressive and civil liberties groups exist to defend our rights to cut and be cut from these bigoted Bible-bashers.
    • The Greeks join American Bible-thumpers who resent their national hero being portrayed as homosexual.
    • By giving the Bible-thumpers a fair shake, the directors actually come off as the best Christians in the film.
    • Hes an outspoken libertarian in his back-page soapbox columns, bashing Bible-thumpers and left-lib control freaks with equal venom for their efforts to censor comics.
    • Science's defenders should bring out national television crews, and let them interview the Bible-thumpers who come out for these battles on the local level.
    • These people, these Bible-thumpers, actually think that their ethical beliefs ought to be adopted by… everyone.
    • It's probably not just the Bible-thumpers who would have - or are having - a hard time with it.
    • They'll claim it's stereotyping but while I haven't come across priests like that I've met some nuns, real Bible-thumpers, who laid the whole guilt thing on me and warned me that I was heading straight to hell.
    • And though I'm anything but a Bible-thumper, I find quotable phrases in there from time to time.
    • ‘If you come across as a Bible-thumper,’ he says, ‘frankly, I don't think you are going to be able to achieve your goal.‘
    • What in the world is wrong with being a Bible-thumper anyway?
    • Some people tend to keep their pentacle hidden under their shirt because they fear being harassed by Bible-thumpers and the like.

Derivatives

  • Bible-bashing

  • adjectiveˈbʌɪb(ə)lˌbaʃɪŋˈbaɪbəlˌbæʃɪŋ
    British informal
    • attributive Denoting a person who expounds or follows the teachings of the Bible in an aggressively evangelical way.

      I should have listened to my Bible-bashing mother
      Example sentencesExamples
      • A few even argue that it's personally insulting, since it unfairly portrays him as a Bible-thumping homophobe.
      • There is, one suspects, a mass of insecurity hidden behind the self-confident, extrovert, Bible-thumping exterior.
      • She is a sneering teenager, dealing with a haunted bedroom, the cute boy next door, Bible-thumping neighbours and barnyard animals.
 
 

Definition of Bible-basher in US English:

Bible-basher

noun
British informal
  • A person who expounds or follows the teachings of the Bible in an aggressively evangelical way.

    North American term Bible-thumper
    Example sentencesExamples
    • These people, these Bible-thumpers, actually think that their ethical beliefs ought to be adopted by… everyone.
    • Following my account of my verbal duel with the young Bible-thumper last month, I received a number of very abusive criticisms via e-mail, from three different posters.
    • The Greeks join American Bible-thumpers who resent their national hero being portrayed as homosexual.
    • And finally there's Natasha, a Bible-basher with a difference.
    • And though I'm anything but a Bible-thumper, I find quotable phrases in there from time to time.
    • Science's defenders should bring out national television crews, and let them interview the Bible-thumpers who come out for these battles on the local level.
    • This is why ‘fundamentalism,’ in my view, is basically a modern movement, sprung as much from Enlightenment atheists as from Bible-thumpers.
    • They'll claim it's stereotyping but while I haven't come across priests like that I've met some nuns, real Bible-thumpers, who laid the whole guilt thing on me and warned me that I was heading straight to hell.
    • Some people tend to keep their pentacle hidden under their shirt because they fear being harassed by Bible-thumpers and the like.
    • A tongue-in-cheek critique of fanatical Bible-thumpers, the movie has great acting performances.
    • By giving the Bible-thumpers a fair shake, the directors actually come off as the best Christians in the film.
    • ‘If you come across as a Bible-thumper,’ he says, ‘frankly, I don't think you are going to be able to achieve your goal.‘
    • It's probably not just the Bible-thumpers who would have - or are having - a hard time with it.
    • Fortunately progressive and civil liberties groups exist to defend our rights to cut and be cut from these bigoted Bible-bashers.
    • What in the world is wrong with being a Bible-thumper anyway?
    • Hes an outspoken libertarian in his back-page soapbox columns, bashing Bible-thumpers and left-lib control freaks with equal venom for their efforts to censor comics.
 
 
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