Crossword-Solution: PROFANE 7 letters, 71 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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Word Word Type Definition
Profane a. Not sacred or holy; not possessing peculiar sanctity;
unconsecrated; hence, relating to matters other than sacred; secular;
-- opposed to sacred, religious, or inspired; as, a profane place.
Profane a. Unclean; impure; polluted; unholy.
Profane a. Treating sacred things with contempt, disrespect,
irreverence, or undue familiarity; irreverent; impious.
Profane a. Irreverent in language; taking the name of God in vain;
given to swearing; blasphemous; as, a profane person, word, oath, or
tongue.
Profane a. To violate, as anything sacred; to treat with abuse,
irreverence, obloquy, or contempt; to desecrate; to pollute; as, to
profane the name of God; to profane the Scriptures, or the ordinance of
God.
Profane a. To put to a wrong or unworthy use; to make a base
employment of; to debase; to abuse; to defile.

We have 71 clues for the answer “PROFANE”

Clue Answers
showing disrespect for religion or holy things 1 answer
Censorable 1 answer
Contemptuous of sacred things 1 answer
not holy because unconsecrated or impure or defiled 1 answer
Using four-letter words 1 answer
Secular; obscene 1 answer
Hardly G-rated 1 answer
Talking a blue streak? 2 answers
Nonreligious in form 2 answers
DIGNIFY (ant.) 5 answers
HOLY (ant.) 9 answers
BLASPHEMOUS BEHAVIOR 11 answers
Pagan 11 answers
Gentile 13 answers
Salty 14 answers
Ethnic 15 answers
Sacrilegious 15 answers
unsanctified 19 answers
Godforsaken 22 answers
Make Dirty 23 answers
unhallowed 26 answers
blasphemous 26 answers
crass 27 answers
Ungodly 29 answers
irreligious 31 answers
Unholy 33 answers
depreciatory 34 answers
depreciating 36 answers
taunting 37 answers
Heathen 38 answers
Belittling. 42 answers
unparliamentary 48 answers
libelling 49 answers
shaming 49 answers
reviling 49 answers
maledictory 49 answers
imprecatory 49 answers
humiliating 49 answers
fulminatory 49 answers
anathematising 49 answers
calumniating 49 answers
comminatory 49 answers
denunciatory 49 answers
injuring 50 answers
damnatory 50 answers
Irreverent 50 answers
censorious 52 answers
Vituperative. 52 answers
debasing 52 answers
depreciative 52 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REEAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PROFANE (5)

But now some godless man, ’Tis rumored, here abides; The precincts through I scan, Yet wot not where he hides, The wretch profane! I search and search in vain.
The Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles 2000
The accident of a broken leg brought a profane and ribald soldier under religious influences and furnished him a new ideal.
What Is Man? And Other Stories Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993
Nor were they less careful to prevent any unhallowed layman from touching the pall, which, having been that used at the funeral of Saint Edmund, was liable to be desecrated, if handled by the profane.
Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1993
When I reflected that this marvellous electric agent, after having afforded motion, heat, and light to the _Nautilus_, still protected her from outward attack, and transformed her into an ark of safety which no profane hand might touch without being thunderstricken, my admiration was unbounded, and from the structure it extended to the engineer who had called it into existence.
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea Jules Verne 1994
Don’t profane—don’t insult—the memory of my innocent son.” “I speak the simple truth,” Newman declared, “and I speak it for a purpose.
The American Henry James 1994

Quotes with PROFANE (3)

WE do try to eat," Raoul called back to her [Kel]. I go all faint if I don't get fed regularly. Only think of the disgrace to the King's Own if I fell from the saddle.""But there was that time in Fanwood," a voice behind them said." That wedding in Tameran," added the blonde Sergeant Osbern, riding a horse-length behind Kel." Don't forget when what's-his-name, with the army, retired," yelled a third." Silence, insubordinate curs!" cried Raoul. "Do not sully my new squire's ea…
Tamora Pierce Squire
In love with myself, that is what people say I am. It doesn’t surprise me, for how could they notice that I can love when I love only you; how could anyone else suspect it when I love only you? In love with myself. Why? Because I’m in love with you, because it is you I love, you alone, and all that truly belongs to you, and it is thus I love myself, because this, my self, belongs to you, so that if I ceased loving you I would cease loving myself. What then is, in the eyes of …
Soren Kierkegaard
Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
Henry David Thoreau
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, Universal, WSJ.

Used 9 times in crossword archives (2003–2025).