In a profane manner, irreverently, with marked disrespect for the sacred.

Unclean; ritually impure; unholy, desecrating a holy place or thing. / Not sacred or holy, unconsecrated; relating to non-religious matters, secular.

A person or thing that is profane. / (Freemasonry) A person not a Mason.

(transitive) To violate (something sacred); to treat with abuse, irreverence, obloquy, or contempt; to desecrate / (transitive) To put to a wrong or unworthy use; to debase; to abuse; to defile.

The act of profaning; desecration, blasphemous behaviour, defilement.

(uncountable) The quality of being profane; quality of irreverence, of treating sacred things with contempt. / (countable) Obscene, lewd or abusive language.

Treated with irreverence or without due respect.

simple past tense and past participle of profane

present participle of profane

profanation