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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | foul language |
| Synonyms: | abuse, blasphemy, curse, cursing, cuss, cuss word, dirty language, dirty name, dirty word, execration, four-letter word, impiety, imprecation, irreverence, malediction, no-no, obscenity, profaneness, sacrilege, swearing, swearword, taboo |
| Antonyms: | clean language |
| Main Entry: | curse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hateful, swearing remark |
| Synonyms: | anathema, ban, bane, blaspheming, blasphemy, commination, cursing, cuss word, cussing, damning, denunciation, dirty name, dirty word, double whammy, execration, expletive, four-letter word, fulmination, imprecation, malediction, malison, naughty words, no-no, oath, objuration, obloquy, obscenity, profanation, profanity, sacrilege, swear word, swearing, vilification, whammy |
| Antonyms: | compliment, praise |
| Main Entry: | execration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hating |
| Synonyms: | abhorrence, abomination, anathema, blasphemy, condemnation, contempt, curse, cursing, cussing, damnation, denunciation, detestation, detesting, excoriation, hatred, imprecation, loathing, malediction, odium, profanity, swearing, vilification |
| Antonyms: | liking, loving |
Example Sentences
- In the last decade, the occasional profanity has crept onto network and basic-cable television.
- Now his lack of experience is showing up big time and he has to resort to profanity to show he is in charge which he is not.
- Harry's talents included a gift for telling stories eloquent with adjectival profanity.
| Main Entry: | irreverence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disrespect |
| Synonyms: | blasphemy, cheek, derision, discourtesy, flippancy, heresy, impertinence, impiety, impudence, insult, mockery, profanity, ridicule, rudeness, sauciness, sin, sinfulness |
| Antonyms: | regard, respect, reverence |
| Main Entry: | oath |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | curse |
| Synonyms: | blasphemy, cuss, cuss word, dirty name, dirty word, expletive, four-letter word, imprecation, malediction, no-no, profanity, strong language, swearword |
| Antonyms: | kindness, pleasantry |
| Main Entry: | obscenity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indecency, immorality; vulgarism |
| Synonyms: | X-rating, abomination, affront, atrocity, bawdiness, blight, blueness, coarseness, curse, dirtiness, dirty name, dirty word, evil, filthiness, foulness, four-letter word, immodesty, impropriety, impurity, indecency, indelicacy, lewdness, licentiousness, lubricity, offense, outrage, porn, pornography, profanity, prurience, salacity, scatology, scurrility, sleaze, smut, smuttiness, suggestiveness, swearword, vileness, vulgarity, wrong |
| Antonyms: | cleanness, decency, innocence, morality, propriety, purity, uprightness |
| Main Entry: | sacrilege |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | irreverence |
| Synonyms: | blasphemy, crime, curse, desecration, heresy, impiety, mockery, offense, profanation, profaneness, profanity, sin, violation |
| Antonyms: | piety, respect, reverence |
| Main Entry: | swearing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | foul language |
| Synonyms: | bad language, blasphemy, cursing, cuss, cussing, dirty language, dirty name, dirty talk, dirty word, execration, expletives, four-letter word, imprecation, malediction, no-no, profanity, swearword |
| Main Entry: | impiety |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ungodliness |
| Synonyms: | blasphemy, godlessness, heresy, irreverence, profanity |
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