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| 1. | [ adjective ] characterized by profanity or cursing | |
| Synonyms: | blue blasphemous | |
| Examples: | "foul-mouthed and blasphemous" "blue language" "profane words" |
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| Related terms: | dirty | |
| 2. | [ verb ] corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | |
| Synonyms: | corrupt deprave misdirect debase debauch vitiate demoralize demoralise subvert pervert | |
| Examples: | "debauch the young people with wine and women" "Socrates was accused of corrupting young men" "Do school counselors subvert young children?" "corrupt the morals" |
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| Related terms: | change poison lead_off whore sensualize bastardize suborn infect demoralization orgy corruption profanation violator pervert | |
| 3. | [ adjective ] grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred | |
| Synonyms: | blasphemous sacrilegious | |
| Examples: | "blasphemous rites of a witches' Sabbath" "profane utterances against the Church" "it is sacrilegious to enter with shoes on" |
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| Related terms: | irreverent | |
| 4. | [ adjective ] not holy because unconsecrated or impure or defiled | |
| Synonyms: | unsanctified unconsecrated | |
| Related terms: | unholy | |
| 5. | [ adjective ] (religion) not sacred or concerned with religion | |
| Examples: | "sacred and profane music" "children being brought up in an entirely profane environment" |
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| Related terms: | sacred laic secularized secularised profanatory temporal impious earthly | |
| 6. | [ verb ] (criminal law) violate the sacred character of a place or language | |
| Synonyms: | desecrate violate outrage | |
| Examples: | "desecrate a cemetary" "violate the sanctity of the church" "profane the name of God" |
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| Related terms: | assail profanation irreverence | |
| Similar spelling: |
profaned profanely propane Provance propanone profanity propman propene propanol propanal privine |
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