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[ UK /pɹəfˈænɪti/ ]
[ US /pɹoʊˈfænəti/ ]
NOUN
  1. vulgar or irreverent speech or action

How To Use profanity In A Sentence

  • Kids at one Connecticut school don't like a new rule, but you probably won't hear them expressing themselves by using profanity: the rule to keep kids from cussing.
  • Then old Tarwater's heart uprose again as the air was rent by a cyclone of profanity, from the midst of which crackled sentences like: - Dirty skunks! ... LIKE ARGUS OF THE ANCIENT TIMES
  • This applies double if the profanity occurs during a quarterly conference call.
  • Company after company dashed into the blazing "fireproof" building, urged by the hoarse profanity of the chief. The Poisoned Pen
  • To desecrate a holy spring is considered profanity.
  • Religious scholars and students were moved by it as a piece of Jewish and Israeli literature that functioned neither as a traditional religious text nor as a profanity of sacred ideas.
  • Similarly, don't use profanity, obscenity, slander or libel.
  • Else I should plunge _in medias res_ upon a sketch of De Quincey's life; were it not a rudeness amounting to downright profanity to omit the important ceremony of prelibation, and that at a banquet to which, implicitly, gods are invited. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863
  • Known for his acerbic wit, sharp tongue, and occasional profanity, he stood out among the colorless bureaucrats who ruled Poland.
  • The question of sanctity versus profanity is one which every Pagan, Wiccan, or Witch confronts and comes to terms with at some point on their spiritual path.
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