cuss

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

“I never heard her use a cuss word my whole life,” Wylie says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2022

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

While hanging around my grandpa’s store, I had learned a few cuss words from the men, but I never did use them.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

As such, we've replaced all cusses with "cusses."

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2015

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

To thine own self be true—arguably a robust test for finding that cussed work-life balance and perhaps, for someone like McKenna, also the sweet spot between commerce and art.

From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2018

“It’s because of the cussed petition. They’re trying to get you— “No. Not that.

From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson

“But that’ll die out if there’s no emotional current underneath. The cussing has context. As long as there is an emotional story underneath the bells and whistles of cussing, then that works.”

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 26, 2024

Is cussing a part of communication for Scientology believers, one officially sanctioned or dictated?

From Salon ● Apr. 29, 2022

“It’s a natural progression going from hockey to being a pastor because in hockey there’s a lot of cussing and fighting and it seems to be the same as a pastor,” he joked.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2020

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

I was proud of the girls for not cussing, but I was even more proud of them for hitting the nail right on the head this time.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall