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
  • Ancient samples, degraded over centuries, often contain fragments too small for PCR to amplify.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2025
  • In their world, which is also ours, selfhood has degraded into taste, preferences, demography, and outlays of attention and money.
    Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The former president has bristled at the suggestion that his administration abused the autopen, defending himself in a July 13 New York Times interview.
    Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 28 Oct. 2025
  • The lax rules are being abused by people using services like Suno and Udio, where anyone can make an AI song that attempts to mimic a real artist in a matter of seconds.
    Bobby Allyn, NPR, 27 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Along with the legal near-miss, the staff report found that Chua’s actions violated several city codes, including by directing a staff member without going through the city manager and by improperly calling a meeting.
    Luis Melecio-Zambrano, Mercury News, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Separately, two Russian aircraft flying from Kaliningrad violated Lithuanian airspace near Kybartai on Thursday, two Lithuanian officials told NBC News.
    Alexander Smith, NBC news, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Files were easily lost or corrupted.
    Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 8 Oct. 2025
  • As a model named Carl, stuck in a relationship corrupted by microcelebrity and Instagram view counts, Dickinson ticks with exasperation and sarcastic logic, his jaw clenched, his eyes wide and staring.
    Carrie Battan, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Etiquette can comment on some of the terms being used (or misused).
    Judith Martin, Mercury News, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The paper—supported by Cascale, Textile Exchange and the Cotton Research and Development Corporation—argues that LCAs are often misused across the apparel sector.
    Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 13 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
  • There was this huge peak between 2000 and about 2018 where there was a decentralized anti-Fascist movement that’s responsible for Richard Spencer going home, for Matthew Heimbach being humiliated.
    Fiction Non Fiction, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
  • LaBella alleges that she was traumatized and humiliated by the experience.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Although the beast’s soul has been sealed, its husk has poisoned the futuristic Sky City Toyko, leaving it quarantined under the control of a task force known as the Divine Dragon Order (DDO), led by Ryu himself.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 20 Oct. 2025
  • One of the jurors said deliberations were poisoned by a belief among some jurors that a member of the panel had been paid off by Weinstein or his lawyers.
    Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2025
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“Profaned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/profaned. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.

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