Crossword-Solution: PROFANED
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Profaned | imp. & p. p. | of Profane |
We have 10 clues for the answer “PROFANED”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Treated with irreverence. | 1 answer |
| desecrated | 43 answers |
| flyblown | 43 answers |
| putrescent | 44 answers |
| Infected | 45 answers |
| polluted | 47 answers |
| defiled | 50 answers |
| unsanitary | 51 answers |
| Sick | 72 answers |
| Filthy ___ | 74 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RETEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PROFANED (5)
All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.
And thus _she_ would see him when she looked out upon the glad morning, and oh! would she drop one little tear upon his poor, lifeless form, would she heave one little sigh to see a bright young life so rudely blighted, so untimely cut down? The window went up, a maid-servant’s discordant voice profaned the holy calm, and a deluge of water drenched the prone martyr’s remains! The strangling hero sprang up with a relieving snort.
The brutal and bloody interruption by Tha, the mad priest, passed vividly before the ape-man’s recollective eyes, the flight of the votaries before the insane blood lust of the hideous creature, the brutal attack upon La, and his own part of the grim tragedy when he had battled with the infuriated Oparian and left him dead at the feet of the priestess he would have profaned.
Lever that he permitted this holy place to be for about half an hour profaned by a mere priest, scribbling away on a piece of paper.
But it is evident that for a long time this also has been the public and most grievous complaint of all good men that Masses have been basely profaned and applied to purposes of lucre.
Quotes with PROFANED (3)
For the anarch, little has changed; flags have meaning for him, but not sense. I have seen them in the air and on the ground like leaves in May and November; and I have done so as a contemporary and not just as a historian. The May Day celebration will survive, but with a different meaning. New portraits will head up the processions. A date devoted to the Great Mother is re-profaned. A pair of lovers in the wood pays more homage to it. I mean the forest as something undivided…
In the old age black was not counted fair, Or if it were, it bore not beauty’s name. But now is black beauty’s successive heir, And beauty slandered with a bastard shame. For since each hand hath put on nature’s pow'r,Fairing the foul with art’s false borrowed face, Sweet beauty hath no name, no holy bow'r,But is profaned, if not lives in disgrace. Therefore my mistress' eyes are raven black, Her eyes so suited, and they mourners seem At such who, not born fair, no beauty lac…
I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1952).