cuss
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In any case, attitudes toward the S-word have changed in the last few decades, and it has lost much of its punch as a cuss word, Bergen said.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 25, 2024
“But as long as disabled people are killed for being disabled,” he said, “I will rage against the night and we will light candles as protest and we will cuss and we will pray.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2023
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
Instead I had become a public-interest lawyer, before my disease took that from me, and had allowed myself to cuss occasionally, but this was a real departure.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 29, 2022
They're gasping like fish, almost too tired to cuss us out, but that doesn't last.
From "Freak The Mighty" by Rodman Philbrick
“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
But his output, like those writers’, was stranger, more cussed, and less comfortable than the avuncular stereotypes.
From Slate ● Apr. 8, 2020
“It’s because of the cussed petition. They’re trying to get you— “No. Not that.
From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson
Neither is he known for casually cussing in private.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 25, 2024
Is cussing a part of communication for Scientology believers, one officially sanctioned or dictated?
From Salon ● Apr. 29, 2022
“They are under attack constantly,” he said, noting that police officers decades ago could “arrest someone for cussing them out,” until court rulings curtailed such police powers.
From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2021
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
His brother Dwight was always surrounded by cussing, punching, ball-tossing, fist-bumping boys, but Howard never joined them.
From "Wish" by Barbara O'Connor
