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Definition of "profanely" [pro•fane•ly]

  • In a profane manner, irreverently, with marked disrespect for the sacred. (adverb)

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Use "profanely" in a sentence
  • "You must remember, not to use the word profanely, that we are dealing really with a peculiar people."
  • "And now he had been paid back in his own coin, and lay grovelling in the mud, and calling profanely on the Lord, whose mercy such men always cry for in their trouble, if they never ask it for their sins."
  • "And now he had been paid back in his own coin, and lay grovelling in the mud, and calling profanely on the Lord, Whose mercy such men always cry for in their trouble, if they never ask it for their sins."