Main entry: outrage, profane, violate, desecrate
Definition: violate the sacred character of a place or language
Usage: desecrate a cemetery; violate the sanctity of the church; profane the name of God
Main entry: debase, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, corrupt, subvert, profane, misdirect, pervert, vitiate
Definition: corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
Usage: debauch the young people with wine and women; Socrates was accused of corrupting young men; Do school counselors subvert young children?; corrupt the morals
Main entry: profane, blasphemous, blue
Definition: characterized by profanity or cursing
Usage: foul-mouthed and blasphemous; blue language; profane words
Main entry: blasphemous, sacrilegious, profane
Definition: grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred
Usage: blasphemous rites of a witches' Sabbath; profane utterances against the Church; it is sacrilegious to enter with shoes on
Main entry: unconsecrated, profane, unsanctified
Definition: not holy because unconsecrated or impure or defiled
Definition: not concerned with or devoted to religion
Usage: sacred and profane music; secular drama; secular architecture, children being brought up in an entirely profane environment