cuss

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

“Why is it you like to cuss so much, Dante?”

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