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Profaneness synonyms

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coarseness
The property of being coarse, roughness or primitiveness, unrefined or unpolished.
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  1. The property of being coarse, roughness or primitiveness, unrefined or unpolished.
  2. The quality or state of being coarse; as, coarseness of food, texture, manners, or language.
filthiness
The property of being filthy
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  1. The property of being filthy
foulness
An island off the east coast of Essex where the Thames estuary joins the North Sea.
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  1. An island off the east coast of Essex where the Thames estuary joins the North Sea.
  2. The state of being foul
lewdness
The property of being lewd.
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  1. The property of being lewd.
  2. Indecent behavior offensive to observers. Indecent behavior offensive to observers.
obscenity
An obscene remark, act, event, etc.
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  1. An obscene remark, act, event, etc.
  2. Indecency, lewdness, or offensiveness in behavior, expression, or appearance.
  3. Something, such as a word, act, or expression, that is indecent or lewd.
profanity
(Uncountable) The quality of being profane.
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  1. (Uncountable) The quality of being profane.
  2. Abusive, vulgar, or irreverent language.
  3. Something profane; esp., profane language or the use of profane language
scurrility
A scurrilous act or remark
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  1. A scurrilous act or remark
  2. Something that is scurrilous.
  3. A vulgar, coarse, or abusive remark or passage.
scurrilousness
The property of being scurrilous.
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  1. The property of being scurrilous.
vulgarity
Something, such as an act or expression, that offends good taste or propriety.
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  1. Something, such as an act or expression, that offends good taste or propriety.
  2. The state or quality of being vulgar, crude, coarse, unrefined, etc.
  3. A vulgar act, habit, usage in speech, etc.
raunch
Raunchy things
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  1. Raunchy things
  2. Material or a performance that is sexually explicit or evocative:
  3. Lewdness; vulgarity; obscenity.
raunchiness
The characteristic of being raunchy.
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  1. The characteristic of being raunchy.
Find another word for profaneness. In this page you can discover 17 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for profaneness, like: bawdiness, coarseness, dirtiness, filthiness, foulness, grossness, lewdness, obscenity, profanity, scurrility and scurrilousness.

Sentence Examples

  • In 1698 Collier produced his famous Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage...

  • In that year the Great Fire of London, following on the Great Plague, roused the superstitious fears of the people, and the House of Commons embodied the general feeling in a bill against atheism and profaneness.

  • On the 17th of October it was ordered that the committee to which the bill was referred " should be empowered to receive information touching such books as tend to atheism, blasphemy and profaneness, or against the essence and attributes of God, and in particular the book published in the name of one White, 1 and the book of Mr Hobbes called the Leviathan, and to report the matter with their opinion to the House."

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