Maximof lapsed into a strain of such ingenious and metaphorical profanity that my imagination was left to supply the deficiencies of my imperfect comprehension.
Many of the stories told of his roughness of speech and profanity are not true, though it cannot be denied that he has a habit of expressing himself very vigorously when his feelings are stirred.
When warned of the torpedoes the wrathful Admiral came near adding a little profanity to his contemptuous opinion of them as he passed on.
New England ideas of profanity were very rigid, and New England men had reason to guard well their temper and tongue, else that latter member might be bored with a hot iron; for such was the penalty for profanity.
All profanity or blaspheming against God was severely punished.
The doors in the forward part of the cabin slammed, and the mate's profanity mingled with the protest of the steward in the cabin.
He was seen and taken on board, with Spanish profanity sounding in his unregarding ears.
And next she was showing him the opened door, saying that she could tolerate profanity in a man, but not in a gentleman, and that under no circumstances was he to claim her acquaintance again.
I could not help congratulating myself, though, on having been spared to see the country which was immortalized by the profanity of a great military force.
The rummy atmosphere reechoes with profanity from female lips.
It is a good thing to talk at and murmur into and deposit profanity in, but to take up a conversation and keep it up and follow a man out through the front door with it, the telephone has still much to learn from woman.
All unknown to me, Jack Lane had become a man, and his exclamation had had more of prayer than of profanity in it.
I've seen profanity on some o' the ox trails o' this country so thick it lay jus' like a fog on the prairie.
I have already spoken of the annoyance to which we were constantly subjected from the profanity of those we encountered.
He remarked to me that the exclusion of ardent spirits removed the whole difficulty--that where there was no intoxicating drink, there was very little disposition to indulge in profanity or gambling.
In spite of the profanity Bull's laconic comment was reverent in its essence as the most profound "Amen!
Bull ripped out an oath, but his feeling was so sincere, his disappointment so deep, that the profanity was like unto a consecration.
The descent is hair-raising and unsafe: no profanity can do justice to it.
It is mostly unprintable, but you will get an entirely new idea of what profanity means.
But at last an owner braver than those before him, and fortified by innumerable expressions of contempt in which a picturesque and virile profanity played a leading part, proceeded without more ado to raze the ancient structure to the ground.
She sprang at Del Norte with both hands outthrust and flung him from the prostrate form of her lover, sending him rolling over and over on the rocky floor of the cave, snarling forth profanity in Spanish.
He swore at the driver for his carelessness, but his profanity ended abruptly when the door of the cab swung open and he saw a pair of midnight eyes looking at him.
All the Republican Clubs in the state couldn't have held 'em then, and the profanity they used wahn't especially edifyin'.
How many fathers are there whose lips are black with profanity and foul with obscenity, and whose lives are mean and unwholesome!
The voluntary profanity and the impure jests that so often offend the ears of decent people at the theatre, are put forth to call out a cheer from groundlings whose praise is always essential disgrace.
There are some pretty pouts from the ladies, and some deep but energetic profanity from the gentlemen.
The first is of the rather inartistically high level of profanity maintained by the speech of Davis and Huish.
There are a great many reasons against copious profanity of speech.
His vocabulary of profanity had been enlarged by the addition of every name in the novel.
In fact the good traits in Mrs. Stowe's people seemed to carry him to greater heights of wrath and profanity than the bad ones.
The Happy Family was incensed and wasted profanity and argument trying to make him give up the crazy notion of quitting.
He stood up in the stirrups and declaimed loudly his views upon the subject, and his opinion of any man who proposed such a move, and punctuated his remarks freely with profanity and bullets.
Tipton turned, stared as a man might who sees a ghost, and broke into such profanity as I have seldom heard.
And I admired him: chiefly, I fear, for his fluent use of profanity and his fighting qualities.
He always declared afterward that he invented all the new bicycle profanity that has since come into general use.
Then followed an outbreak of profanity which I regret, for artistic purposes, exceeds that generous limit which a sympathizing public has already extended to me in the explication of character.
Whereat Manuel exploded with profanity and burnt blue with sulphurous malediction; but Miguel, the recent ecclesiastic, sat livid and thoughtful.
That Hi was deeply disappointed was quite clear from the selection of the profanity with which he adorned this lengthy address.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "profanity" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
