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Profanity Common

Profanity has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

vulgar or irreverent speech or action

"The coach had to suspend the player for his profanity during the heated argument with the referee."

2

The quality of being profane; quality of irreverence, of treating sacred things with contempt.

"The priest shook his head in disappointment when he noticed the casual profanity displayed on the statue's base by the tourists who had climbed it."

Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
utterance
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
blasphemy obscenity curse
Rhyming Words
ity pity mity city ality arity ility acity deity whity asity icity unity hoity laity amity osity inity egoity vomity
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