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expletive

noun as in swear word; exclamation

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"Enough of Fico" and another slogan protesting Fico's Kremlin ties, using an expletive, were written in chalk at a school in the northern Slovak city of Poprad, which the premier said he wanted to visit.

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After the footage of her berating fellow councillors and using expletives was leaked to the Guardian earlier this month, Ms Kemkaran said the culprits had committed an act of "treachery".

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"Unfortunately, our region is very close to our scheming neighbour," he said, adding an expletive for good measure.

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In April, the chief executive of RH, formerly known as Restoration Hardware, reacted with an expletive as he watched his company's stock tumble, in response to a major tariff announcement from the White House.

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The third expressed his views, in which he said "I hate them", referring to "misogynists and homophobes", adding an expletive.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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