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profanity

[pruh-fan-i-tee, proh-] / prəˈfæn ɪ ti, proʊ- /


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Adam Christing is best known as the founder of Clean Comedians, a group that includes Nate Bargatze and specializes in stand-up routines that are free of profanity and dirty jokes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Critics argued that memes, profanity and irreverent jokes trivialised a campaign fighting to strengthen India's education system.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

“And I’m like, ‘Cool, great, let ‘em talk, there’s no profanity anywhere,’ ” Hardin said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026

But a new report from the Washington Post quantifies what many people have sensed: Trump’s use of profanity, insults and combative language has grown much worse since his return to power in January 2025.

From Salon ● May 26, 2026

Displays of temper were almost unheard of; no utterances of profanity are recorded in the extensive recollections of his students and colleagues.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

When one of China's biggest stand-up comedians opened his show with a joke about the extraordinarily long rule of the country's leader Xi Jinping, it drew a cheer, alongside a smattering of approving profanities.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026

Still, Fetterman — known for his blunt and irreverent talk — generally confined his profanities to his writings on social media when describing his disdain for, say, Pennsylvania’s relatively low minimum wage.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 25, 2024

So as I talked about in the book, with respect to coarse words and profanities, there was actually an Obscenities Act.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2023

In addition to profanities and other inappropriate words, The Intercept says it would also include “unfair,” “master,” “slave,” “injustice,” “ethics,” “diversity,” “fairness,” “pay raise,” and phrases like “This is dumb” or “This is concerning.”

From The Verge ● Apr. 4, 2022

Madame de Genlis was therefore perfectly right when she declaimed against the freedoms and profanities of Voltaire.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 02 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Kuno Francke




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