cussing

Example Sentences

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Is cussing a part of communication for Scientology believers, one officially sanctioned or dictated?

From Salon • Apr. 29, 2022

“We must always be on guard against mediocre cussing in our writing,” the novelist Katherine Dunn wrote, in a small book called “On Cussing.”

From New York Times • Sep. 16, 2019

Partly because so much of the audio was cut out for cussing, it wasn’t the best-sounding Grammy performance, but it was probably the most alive moment of the night.

From Slate • Feb. 11, 2019

It was the first time I had ever heard a teacher curse, and this was 1961, when cussing in public was much less common.

From Seattle Times • May 11, 2017

I wasn’t going to get into the whole cussing thing with my mom.

From "Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe" by Benjamin Alire Saenz