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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

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

She doesn't cuss more than other athletes — or their coaches.

From Salon ● Feb. 6, 2022

“War,” said Miss Franny with her eyes still closed, “should be a cuss word, too.”

From "Because of Winn-Dixie" by Kate DiCamillo

“Obviously, Jared cusses, and I’ve told people that, and they’re so surprised,” Williams said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2022

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

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

As I tiptoed up the rotting stairs, they creaked and groaned, cussing me for stepping on their aching backs.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool