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Cutting back to Tuesday on the radio, DJ Envy asked her, “What’s up with you and farts?” as Curtis mentioned using “fart digger” and “fart knocker” as HGTV-palatable cuss words.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2026

Shapiro isn’t the kind of norm-breaking politician who might be expected to cuss in public.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 25, 2024

Oftentimes I would talk people down from this righteous anger, then I would be like, “So don’t cuss people out you don’t know,” and then they’d be like, “Yeah, you’re right.”

From Slate ● Mar. 2, 2023

"Heck, yes. But am I going to allow a child to cuss anyone out? Heck, no."

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2021

Call’s cuss words were taught to him by his sainted grandmother and tended to be as quaint as the clothes she made for him.

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson

“I mean, he kind of cusses sometimes,” Rios said.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2024

On Guy Fieri: “He cusses like a chef,” Helle said.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 19, 2015

Just because somebody cusses doesn’t make them a bad person and just because a guy doesn’t cuss doesn’t make him a good person.

From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2010

I heard a lot of things, cusses and cheers, jokes and conches, horns and drums, but nothing that sounded like a distinctive phrase.

From The Guardian ● May 5, 2010

I didn’t know what most of Doug Swieteck’s brother’s cusses meant, either, and it didn’t make all that much difference.

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt

“He never yelled at me. Never cussed at me. Never lost his temper with me or the kids,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

It was a performance that recalled the cussed stubbornness of great England teams past.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2023

Over her refusal to comply with the school’s mandate, Smith told the paper that people have "cussed her out" and that some of her best friends "won’t talk to me."

From Fox News ● Oct. 11, 2021

To thine own self be true—arguably a robust test for finding that cussed work-life balance and perhaps, for someone like McKenna, also the sweet spot between commerce and art.

From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2018

Daisy had told me that if any boy who wasn’t twenty-one years old yet cussed, his tongue would rot out of his head.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

As late as 1974, Richard Pryor was arrested for “disorderly conduct” simply for cussing in his stand-up act.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2023

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

Her pregame instructions were spare: no cussing, and no tackling from behind.

From "Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference" by Warren St. John