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

Older adults were more likely than younger adults to consider it impolite to curse out loud, visibly display profanity or wear headphones or earbuds while talking to someone in person.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2025

Content review is assisted by bots such as ClueBot NG, which identifies profanity and unencyclopedic punctuation like “!!!11.”

From Slate • Aug. 24, 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