cussing
Example Sentences
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“But that’ll die out if there’s no emotional current underneath. The cussing has context. As long as there is an emotional story underneath the bells and whistles of cussing, then that works.”
From Seattle Times • Jan. 26, 2024
As late as 1974, Richard Pryor was arrested for “disorderly conduct” simply for cussing in his stand-up act.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 26, 2023
Is cussing a part of communication for Scientology believers, one officially sanctioned or dictated?
From Salon • Apr. 29, 2022
“We must always be on guard against mediocre cussing in our writing,” the novelist Katherine Dunn wrote, in a small book called “On Cussing.”
From New York Times • Sep. 16, 2019
First, he’d said a word that I’d never heard before and since he said it in front of Momma I knew it wasn’t cussing.
From "The Watsons Go to Birmingham" by Christopher Paul Curtis
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
