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foul talk
noun as in billingsgate
Example Sentences
Soiled pants, awkward sex, toilet terrors, body dysmorphia, foul talk, pummeled egos — our society will certainly leave an open book for future anthropologists who wish to understand our psychological states of mind.
Some lay in a kind of sullen stupor about the deck; others cast the dice and wrangled with oaths and much foul talk; and when they tired even of this, they took a cruel delight in tormenting poor Billy Bobbin in many ingenious ways.
Some who would fight the foul talk, wisely or unwisely as the case might be; some who had eyes to see the goodness of Faith, and hearts to trust her....
If a maidservant happened to be lounging in the kitchen by any chance, the two men would deliberately frighten her away by their foul talk.
Not to trust to the impressions of the day, I inquired of a resident banker, and he testified that the foul talk that assailed his ears, was to him, a continual affliction.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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