Example sentences for: profanity

How can you use “profanity” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Robert Graves, who wrote a book in the 1920s called The Future of Swearing , thought that profanity was the adult replacement for childhood tears.

  • In this comprehensive study, Timothy Jay, who teachers at North Adams State College, in Massachusetts, divides his subject into several subcategories: Cursing, Profanity, Blasphemy, Taboo, Obscenity, Vulgarity, Slang, Epithets, and Scatology.

  • Talking pictures led to precise provisions in the American Production Code: “Pointed profanity [this includes the words God, Lord, Jesus, Christ --unless used reverently-- Hell, damn, Gawd ], or every other profane or vulgar expression, however used, is banned.”

  • (Warning: This review contains profanity and unwholesome ideas.

  • When I politely ask the drivers to stop this, they use profanity, ignore me, or threaten violence.


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