profaned

past tense of profane
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as in abused
to put to a bad or improper use profaned his considerable acting talents by appearing in some wretched movies

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for profaned
Verb
  • Vinegar can damage some finishes and the protective coating on some wood cabinets may have degraded over time.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Mapping deep-sea degraders Measuring weight loss proved that LAHB degraded.
    Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 9 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Ray tells a graphic story about his revenge on a priest who abused him.
    Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 7 Oct. 2025
  • According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Ed later told investigators that his father had abused both him and his older sibling.
    Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • His team also asked for a stay of execution and a new trial after claims that judicial officials in Anderson County, where a jury sentenced him to death in 2003, violated Roberson's constitutional rights.
    Erik Ortiz, NBC news, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The president of the European Commission highlighted that in just the last two weeks, Russian drones and warplanes have violated the airspace of six European nations, scrambling jets, grounding commercial flights and posing a direct threat to EU citizens.
    Caitlin McFall, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Files were easily lost or corrupted.
    Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Democrats and civil libertarians said Trump corrupted the system of justice by getting involved.
    Bart Jansen, USA Today, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Just last week, one case was dismissed by a federal judge who said former Bojangles employees failed to show their data was misused as a result of the breach.
    Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Now, new unsealed documents reveal the FBI was looking into whether the cybersecurity researcher, who lived in Bloomington and Carmel, misused federal research grants.
    Cate Charron, IndyStar, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Trump’s order also directs administration officials to terminate or revoke visas if foreign nationals are found to have desecrated the flag.
    Sarah Fortinsky, The Hill, 17 Sep. 2025
  • When Melanson failed to comply with Lino’s instructions, Lino allegedly beat the older man with a baseball bat and then desecrated his corpse.
    Matthew Medsger, Boston Herald, 5 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • They got humiliated in their two Division Series games in Toronto, got a reprieve in the form of Aaron Judge’s all-around brilliance in Game 3 and then got eliminated by the Blue Jays on Wednesday night, losing 5-2 in Game 4 while showing no sudden-death fight whatsoever.
    Ian O'Connor, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
  • An Italian activist who was part of the Gaza aid flotilla and subsequently detained by Israel has described allegations of being mistreated and humiliated while in Israeli custody, with little access to legal assistance.
    Catherine Nicholls, CNN Money, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Meanwhile, witnesses testified to the ways these games poisoned children’s minds, just as other modern entertainment did.
    Time, Time, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned by security services, imprisoned on politically motivated charges and ultimately died in prison in 2024.
    Cassandra Burke Robertson, The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2025
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“Profaned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/profaned. Accessed 13 Oct. 2025.

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