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Profanity
"Profanity" in a Sentence (14 examples)
Leaving an unburied corpse behind is profanity.
Digging up a corpse is profanity.
I don't like profanity.
Tom never uses profanity.
We only use profanity when we are angry or in an extreme case.
We can only use profanity when someone crosses the line.
In the army, profanity is used not just to swear, but to converse.
I use profanity not to swear, but to hold a conversation.
In the army, profanity is used not just for swearing, but to hold conversations.
I do not like profanity.
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The overwhelming power of his imagination led him to contemplate acts of impiety and profanity, and to a vivid realisation of the dangers these involved.
He ran up and down the street screaming profanities like a madman.
Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths. Consider for a moment the origins of almost any word we have for bad language – "profanity", "curses", "oaths" and "swearing" itself.
Mr. [Kash] Patel said he would not tolerate any more “Mickey Mouse operations,” an official on the call recounted. It was one of his few utterances without profanity, the person added.
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