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Another word for profane

profane Synonyms

profane

modif.

Worldly
temporal, transitory, transient; see worldly 2.
Irreverent
godless, irreligious, sacrilegious; see atheistic, impious.

profane Synonyms

profane

v.

despoil, commit sacrilege, befoul, revile, commit sin, be irreligious, scorn, mock, indulge in vice, be evil, do wrong, blaspheme, swear, curse, cuss*.

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Another word for profane

adjective

Showing irreverence and contempt for something sacred:
blasphemous, sacrilegious. See sacred
Not religious in subject matter, form, or use:
lay², secular, temporal, worldly. See sacred
Offensive to accepted standards of decency:
barnyard, bawdy, broad, coarse, dirty, Fescennine, filthy, foul, gross, lewd, nasty, obscene, ribald, scatologic, scatological, scurrilous, smutty, vulgar. (Slang) raunchy. See decent

verb

To spoil or mar the sanctity of:

defile, desecrate, pollute, violate. See clean, religion, sacred

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On the way he falls among bad companions, forgets his convent language, and shocks the sisters on arrival by profane swearing.
There is no foundation for the legend that he expired with profane sarcasms upon his lips.
In November the Commune fitted up Notre Dame as a temple of Reason, selected an opera girl to impersonate the goddess, and with profane ceremony installed her in the choir.
An illustration of this truth is furnished in profane history by the account which Thucydides has given us of the Peloponnesian War.
Such business as did not profane the Sabbath according to Babylonian ideas cannot be quoted against their observance of their Sabbath.

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