profane
adjective
characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious.
have profaned
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present perfectof profane.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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A red-handled fly swatter reposes by his desk; few insects have profaned its orderly surface without becoming casualties of the U.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
During the two days and nights that Marshal Ferdinand Foch lay in state, last week?beneath the Emperor Napoleon's tremendous Arch of Triumph?the government suppressed and darkened every electric sign which might have profaned the scene.
From Time Magazine Archive
I went no further; not for all the gold of what's-its-name would I have profaned the package with further investigation.
From The Haunted Pajamas by Francis Perry Elliott
She was ashamed to have been so frivolous, ashamed to have profaned the temple of art with her childishness.
From What Will People Say? A novel by Rupert Hughes
What a retort was "Paradise Lost" to the lewd revellers who would have profaned his aristocratic isolation with howlings and brutalities and philistine uproar!
From Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions by John Cowper Powys
