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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indecent or vulgar word |
| Synonyms: | bad word, curse, cuss, cuss word, dirty name, expletive, foul invective, four-letter word, naughty word, oath, obscenity, profane oath, profanity, swear word, vulgarity |
| Main Entry: | swear word |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | foul word |
| Synonyms: | bad language, bad word, curse, cursing, cuss word, cussing, dirty word, expletive, filthy language, filthy word, foul language, four-letter word, malediction, naughty word, oath, obscenity, profanity, swear, swearing, swearword, tinker's cuss, vulgar language |
| Main Entry: | bete noire |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | detested person |
| Synonyms: | adversary, anathema, antagonist, bad news, bane, bitter enemy, bugbear, competitor, curse, devil, enemy, foe, opponent, plague, rival, trouble |
| Antonyms: | favorite |
| Main Entry: | cuss |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | swearword |
| Synonyms: | blasphemy, curse, cussword, expletive, four-letter word, obscenity |
| Main Entry: | grossness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | obscenity |
| Synonyms: | abomination, affront, atrocity, bawdiness, blight, blueness, coarseness, curse, dirtiness, dirty name, dirty word, evil, filthiness, foulness, four-letter word, immodesty, impropriety, impurity, indecency, indelicacy, lewdness, licentiousness, lubrici |
| Main Entry: | hoodoo |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | jinx |
| Synonyms: | black magic, charm, curse, enchantment, evil eye, hex, kiss of death, nemesis, plague, spell, voodoo |
| Main Entry: | peccancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | evil |
| Synonyms: | affliction, baseness, blow*, calamity, catastrophe, corruption, crime, criminality, curse, debauchery, depravity, devilry, diabolism, harm, hatred, heinousness, hurt, ill, impiety, indecency, infamy, iniquity, injury, knavery, lewdness, licentiousness, looseness, malevolence, malignity, meanness, mischief, misery, misfortune, obscenity, outrage, pain*, perversity, ruin, sin, sinfulness, sorrow, suffering, turpitude, vice, viciousness, vileness, villainy, wickedness, woe, wrong, wrongdoing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | profanation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sacrilege |
| Synonyms: | blasphemy, crime, curse, desecration, heresy, impiety, mockery, offense, profaneness, profanity, sin, violation |
| Main Entry: | profaneness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | obscenity |
| Synonyms: | X-rating, abomination, affront, atrocity, bawdiness, blight, blueness, coarseness, curse, dirtiness, dirty name, dirty word, evil, filthiness, foulness, four-letter word, grossness, immodesty, impropriety, impurity, indecency, indelicacy, lewdness, licentiousness, lubricity, offense, outrage, porn, pornography, profanity, prurience, salacity, scatology, scurrility, scurrilousness, sleaze, smut, smuttiness, suggestiveness, swearword, vileness, vulgarity, vulgarness, wrong |
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