profanity

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

The use of profanity by protesters is because "when there's a weaker sense of respect, expletives become a response".

From BBC ● Aug. 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

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

Obscenity and profanity had no meaning as such among those people.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

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

I wonder now whether trading profanities could be used more widely and with therapeutic intention within the disabled community, and even beyond.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 29, 2022

Sir," cried Mr. Thorpe, turning suddenly round, and severely confronting Mr. Goodworth, "once for all, I must most respectfully insist on being spared for the future any open profanities in conversation, even from your lips.

From Hide and Seek by Wilkie Collins