profanity
About 0.49 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun The quality of being profane; quality of irreverence, of treating sacred things with contempt.
- noun Obscene, lewd or abusive language.
He ran up and down the street screaming profanities like a madman.
Similar words
blasphemy rudeness profaneness vulgarity blasphemousness impiety obscenity irreverence foulmouthedness contemptuosity
Often followed by
and in of is or was to that as
Word family
profanities
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