profanity
Example Sentences
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She said she volunteered in November to mediate the meetings, instructing residents to wait their turn to speak or rephrase their questions without profanity.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 11, 2026
More recent performers have included this past year's headliner Kendrick Lamar, the rapper who cut out profanity but still performed a viral diss track of his rival Drake.
From Barron's • Oct. 22, 2025
Content review is assisted by bots such as ClueBot NG, which identifies profanity and unencyclopedic punctuation like “!!!11.”
From Slate • Aug. 24, 2023
“The magnitude of the value of the Bible as a literary work outweighs any violence or profanity which may be contained in the book,” Davis School District Board Vice President Brigit Gerrard said.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 20, 2023
She used to add, with a smirk that unprofane people can’t control when venturing into profanity, “and wash as far as possible, then wash possible.”
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
Vocabulary lists containing profanity
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Odd One Out
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The Red Pony
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