profanein a sentence
profane as in: don't be profane
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There's no need to be profane.profane = disrespectful of something thought of as sacred
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She disliked his profane language.profane = obscene (shockingly offensive by accepted standards)
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Hollywood is always pressing profane limits.profane = disrespect of things thought sacred
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Cassie was yelling and cursing and carrying on in the most profane language I had ever heard from her about how much she hated us. (source)profane = obscene (shockingly offensive by accepted standards)
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My dissertation gave a different shape to history, one that was neither Mormon nor anti-Mormon, neither spiritual nor profane. (source)profane = without respect for things thought sacred
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Days without names, witless afternoons, quick and profane and quickly over, and no longing in advance or after, and no words required, and nothing to pay. (source)profane = without respect of things thought sacred
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Local opinion held Mr. Underwood to be an intense, profane little man, whose father in a fey fit of humor christened Braxton Bragg, a name Mr. Underwood had done his best to live down. (source)profane = showing no respect for accepted standards of behavior
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Everest, the purists sniffed, had been debased and profaned. (source)profaned = spoiled by disrespectful treatment
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The sound of so many footfalls out there was Tightening, almost a profanation.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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The crowd moved outside, where loudly and profanely they attacked the stolid immovability of a system run amuck.† (source)
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(Sara) Leviticus, 21:9 "And the daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by playing the harlot, profanes her father; she shall be burned with fire.† (source)profanes = disrespects something thought of as sacred
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Her first impulse was to curse him for profaning the house when the body of her husband was still warm in the grave.† (source)profaning = disrespecting something thought of as sacred
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New Yorkers, however, were another matter, as he reported to his adored Lucy: The people—why the people are magnificent: in their carriages, which are numerous, in their house furniture, which is fine, in their pride and conceit, which are inimitable, in their profaneness, which is intolerable, in the want of principle, which is prevalent, in their Toryism, which is insufferable.† (source)profaneness = the quality of disrespecting something thought of as sacredstandard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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She used to add, with a smirk that unprofane people can't control when venturing into profanity, "and wash as far as possible, then wash possible." (source)unprofane = respectful of things thought sacredstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unprofane means not and reverses the meaning of profane. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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His own image started forth a profaner of the cloister, a heretic franciscan, willing and willing not to serve, spinning like Gherardino da Borgo San Donnino, a lithe web of sophistry and whispering in her ear.† (source)
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They never join their voices in praise, and it would seem that they are among the profanest of the idolatrous.† (source)
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The other egwugwu immediately surrounded their desecrated companion, to shield him from the profane gaze of women and children, and led him away.
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profane = unholy
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