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2. lay, laic, nonclerical, nonordained, nonministerial; secular, civil; nonreligious, nonecclesiastical, unholy, unhallowed, unconsecrated, unsanctified; mundane, temporal, worldly.
3. heathen, pagan, barbarian, barbarous, uncivilized, savage, brutish, unenlightened, idolatrous; polytheistic, pantheistic, voodooistic.
4. common, mean, low, vile, cheap, base, lewd, depraved, indelicate, gross, trashy, tawdry; odious, low-minded, of the street, indecent, improper, unseemly, shameless, immodest, indecorous; uncouth, coarse, vulgar, obscene, smutty, dirty, off-color, Inf blue; swearing, cursing, maledictive, foul-mouthed, Fescen-nine, thersitical, blackguardly, scurrilous, ribald, bawdy; unspeakable, unmentionable, unprintable.
-v. 5. desecrate, misuse, misemploy, misapply; abuse, maltreat, violate, ravage, ruin; defile, pervert, corrupt, debase, degrade, prostitute; vitiate, pollute, infect, taint, contaminate, waste.
profanity, n. 1. irreverence, irreligion, impiety, ungodliness, blasphemy, desecration, profanation. See - profanation (def. 1).
2. malediction, curse, imprecation, damning, damnation, execration, Archaic, malison; swearing, cursing, scurrility, ribaldry, billingsgate, double entendre, Archaic, bawdry; obscenity, curse word, swearword, oath, expletive, dirty word, four-letter word, U.S. Inf. cuss; vulgarism, filth, dirt, smut.
profess, v. 1. pretend to, lay claim to, purport, allege, make a pretense of; make out as if, SI. make like, Inf. let on, dissemble, act as if, seem as if; simulate, dissimulate, fake, feign, sham.
2. assert, asseverate, aver, proclaim, declare, predicate; advance, propound, propose, offer, proffer, present, put forward, set forth, broach; emphasize, stress, pronounce, announce, enunciate, state, tell, say, utter; affirm, postulate, protest, claim; admit, avow, own, acknowledge, confess.
professedly, adv. 1. alledgedly, purportedly, ostensibly, supposedly, under the pretext of; pretendedly, falsely, slyly, deceptively, under false pretense.
2. avowedly, admittedly, by open declaration, acknowledgedly, confessedly.
profession, n. 1. vocation, calling, occupation, career, pursuit, lifework; metier, trade, craft, art, skill, job, livelihood, living, work, employment, business; forte, field, line, sphere, specialty; office, post, situation, position, walk of life.
2. declaration, avowal, assertion, asseveration, affirmation, averment; confession, acknowledgement, admittance; avouchment, assurance, guarantee, certification; propounding, protestation, proclamation, predication; deposition, testimony, statement, announcement, enunciation, attestation; vow, oath, pledge.
3. allegation, plea, excuse, pretext, ostensible reason, pretense, pretension.
professional, adj. 1. skilled, knowledgeable, learned, Inf pro; white-collar; experienced, Fr. au fait, veteran, seasoned, trained; skillful, adept, dexterous, adroit, deft, facile; accomplished, able, apt, gifted, talented; finished, polished, practiced; expert, proficient, masterful, masterly; topflight, top-drawer, big-league, big-time, Inf topnotch, Inf. crack, Si. crackerjack, Inf. whiz-bang, Brit. SI. whizzo.
2. efficient, competent, capable, able; hardworking, conscientious, thorough, systematic; prompt, quick, SI. on the ball, on top of everything; practical, realistic, sensible, pragmatic, matter-of-fact, prosaic; businesslike, formal, official, authoritative.
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