Usually means: In a disrespectful or irreverent manner.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word profanely:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. profanely: Merriam-Webster
  2. profanely: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. profanely: Collins English Dictionary
  4. profanely: Vocabulary.com
  5. profanely: Wordnik
  6. profanely: Wiktionary
  7. Profanely, profanely: Dictionary.com
  8. Profanely: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. profanely: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. profanely: Rhymezone
  11. Profanely: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. profanely: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. profanely: FreeDictionary.org
  14. profanely: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. profanely: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Profanely: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. profanely: Encyclopedia

(Note: See profane as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (profanely)

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

Similar:
sacrilegiously, prophanely, unprofanely, impiously, blasphemingly, blasphemously, irreverently, unreverently, unsacredly, disrespectfully, more...

Opposite:
reverently, sacredly, holily

Types:
vulgarity, obscenity, curse, swear, expletive, more...

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Similar:
sacrilegiously, prophanely, unprofanely, impiously, blasphemingly, blasphemously, irreverently, unreverently, unsacredly, disrespectfully, more...

Opposite:
reverently, sacredly, holily

Types:
vulgarity, obscenity, curse, swear, expletive, more...



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