profane

Example Sentences

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The latter features Shaw, who matches the famously profane Williamson vulgarity for vulgarity in her alternating verses.

From Washington Post

“Lately we’ve been making out a lot,” she sings, spinning her signature, soft-serve swirl of the sacred and profane, “not talking ’bout the stuff that’s at the very heart of things.”

From New York Times

Afroman, the profane rapper of the early 2000s, is no longer singing about forgetting to clean his room “because I got high.”

From Washington Post

For many of the Haitians who had lost loved ones to the quake, the pits were a profane compounding of their grief.

From Salon

For example, in the 1980s, some activists and politicians viewed profane music as a threat to the family.

From Salon