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profanitypro‧fan‧i‧ty /prəˈfænəti/ noun (plural profanities)  - Freed in the slipstream of profanity, it took wing.
- He knew far more profanity than Scripture, and used and enjoyed it more.
- His dress is famously unfashionable, his temper famously short, his profanities notoriously rich.
- It is one thing to shock a parent with casual profanity.
- It was part prayer, part profanity.
- Their exchanges are filled with hesitations, contractions, slang and prejudice, as well as the strange poetry of profanity.
- There's also a letter from the Lemon Grove city clerk, peppered with profanity, that she never wrote.
- We need new profanity because familiar profanity has lost its punch.
1[countable usually plural] offensive words or religious words used in a way that shows you do not respect God or holy things2[uncountable] formal behaviour that shows you do not respect God or holy things |