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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for swearword
  1. curse
  2. swear
  3. expletive
  4. language
  5. profanity
  6. epithet
  7. vulgarism
Noun
  • There has never been a busier time or more information available than right now, which is both a blessing and a curse.
    Patrick Connolly, Orlando Sentinel, 1 Jan. 2025
  • The delivery app market — dominated by DoorDash, UberEats and Grubhub — seems to be a blessing and a curse for restaurant operators.
    Cindy Carcamo, Los Angeles Times, 31 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
  • The duo tweeted at each other earlier this year, after SZA, using an expletive, demanded a new season of the show immediately.
    Jessica Wang, EW.com, 20 Dec. 2024
  • But Andre Zachary, Neely’s father, was escorted out of the courtroom after an outburst that included expletives, according to CNN.
    Cheyanne M. Daniels, The Hill, 9 Dec. 2024
Definition of expletive
Noun
  • Part of the reason behind that was to control for differences between morphologically rich languages, where a single word may correspond to multiple words in morphologically simple languages.
    Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Some 240 people work there in various tech startups, AI incubators and food science labs, conducting research and business in at least 14 languages.
    Ann Abel, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
Definition of language
Noun
  • Officially solidified as a white-hot team, Disney took notice (despite the profanity).
    Katcy Stephan, Variety, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Context: Vargas and other supervisors have faced escalating threats and profanity from public commenters at board meetings, prompting them to consider changes to public meeting rules.
    Andrew Keatts, Axios, 20 Dec. 2024
Definition of profanity
Noun
  • Just last month, neo-Nazis marched in uniform throughout the streets of Ohio’s capital, shouting racial epithets.
    Derrick Johnson, The Hill, 3 Dec. 2024
  • 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
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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