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expletive

noun as in swear word; exclamation

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Discovery, which Oliver followed up with repeated expletives.

She adds an expletive to the end of this pronouncement, but no emphasis is needed for a daughter who has already indicted herself for selfishness, the one unpardonable sin for a Latina.

Two days later, Malloe said essentially the same thing while walking past reporters, adding an expletive for emphasis.

"Peace talks with Putin? With this ****?" Ihor wanted to know, with a string of expletives.

From BBC

Rosen Janfaza noted that, under cross-examination, the rapper acknowledged that she and Ellis were chest-to-chest as expletives were exchanged, and that alone is an unwelcome touch and battery on his client, he said.

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