Subvert
Part of speech: noun
Definition: An advertisement created by subvertising.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly. To pervert, as the mind, and turn it from the truth; to corrupt; to confound. To upturn convention from the foundation by undermining it (literally, to turn from beneath).
Example sentence: I am furious at the way that we have allowed money to subvert our democracy. I am appalled at the way that the U.S., a very wealthy nation, permits and even encourages a level of poverty that other wealthy nations would not even consider.
Profane
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A person or thing that is profane.A person not a Mason.
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Unclean; ritually impure; unholy, desecrating a holy place or thing.Not sacred or holy, unconsecrated; relating to non-religious matters, secular.Treating sacred things with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or undue familiarity; blasphemous, impious. Hence, specifically; Irreverent in language; taking the name of God in vain; given to swearing; blasphemous; as, a profane person, word, oath, or tongue.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To violate, as anything sacred; to treat with abuse, irreverence, obloquy, or contempt; to desecrate; to pollute; as, to profane the name of God; to profane the Scriptures, or the ordinance of God.To put to a wrong or unworthy use; to make a base employment of; to debase; to abuse; to defile.
Example sentence: I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.