swearword

noun

ˈswer-ˌwərd How to pronounce swearword (audio)
Definition of swearwordnext
as in curse
a disrespectful or indecent word or expression this is a list of swearwords that are not permitted on this radio program

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  1. curse
  2. swear
  3. expletive
  4. language
  5. profanity
  6. epithet
  7. vulgarism
Noun
  • Financial Education Is Wealth The third-generation wealth curse often befalls families where younger generations, especially grandchildren, are detached from how their predecessors went about building wealth.
    Next Avenue, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
  • For high-achieving professionals, especially those who are naturally more sensitive and perceptive, emotional investment in work can be both a blessing and a curse.
    Melody Wilding, Contributor, CNBC, 19 Dec. 2024
Definition of curse
Noun
  • The station asked the band not to include the swears.
    Kris Holt, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
  • There’s a heavy focus on Asia’s first One&Only spa, featuring a green caviar body exfoliation and an Augustinus Bader facial celebs swear by.
    Katie Lockhart, Robb Report, 11 Oct. 2024
Definition of swear
Noun
  • Videos showed the angry group shouting expletives as Mayweather’s security attempted to get him into a black SUV and away from the scene.
    Paulina Dedaj, Fox News, 11 Dec. 2024
  • His irreverent sense of humor — delivered amid expletives and with a childlike grin that belies his 61 years — seems to have carried him through the relentless five years of work.
    Thomas Adamson, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of expletive
Noun
  • Use neutral, factual language to ensure the message remains honest and unbiased.
    Tina Gada, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Onto the page spilled more than ten thousand lines of the richest and most resourceful blank verse in the English language, arranged into ten books in 1667, then rearranged into twelve in 1674.
    Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
Definition of language
Noun
  • Another Narbonne player who was ejected, Domo Phillips, won’t be able to play Friday for using profanity.
    Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2024
  • O’Hara’s text has a sitcom patter to it with transparent laugh lines that feel almost like Neil Simon with more atmospheric profanity.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 18 Nov. 2024
Definition of profanity
Noun
  • For example, if a butterfly like Papilio glaucus were transferred to a genus with a feminine name, the epithet glaucus (masculine form) would be adjusted to glauca to agree in gender with the new genus.
    The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 12 Dec. 2024
  • The algorithms that underpin LLMs will by default offer up nasty or potentially harmful output such as racist epithets or instructions for building bombs, and fine-tuning from human testers is typically used to teach them behave better.
    Will Knight, WIRED, 4 Dec. 2024
Definition of epithet
Noun
  • As the Oxford English Dictionary notes, the expression not hardly is considered a vulgarism.
    NR Editors, National Review, 16 Apr. 2020
  • The British cringed over new American accents, coinages and vulgarisms.
    Time, Time, 11 June 2019
Definition of vulgarism
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