cuss

Example Sentences

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There’s not much sense in being the richest miserable cuss in the cemetery.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 3, 2022

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 told him not to cuss and he stopped,” a woman can be heard telling an officer in the video.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2022

Reintroducing the Colonel and branding him as “The Original Celebrity Chef” represented a strategic imperative for KFC, especially in the time before “foodie” became a tiresome cuss word of its own.

From Slate • Dec. 11, 2020

They're gasping like fish, almost too tired to cuss us out, but that doesn't last.

From "Freak The Mighty" by Rodman Philbrick