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swearword
noun as in obscenity
Strong matches
- abomination
- affront
- atrocity
- bawdiness
- blasphemy
- blight
- blueness
- coarseness
- curse
- dirtiness
- epithet
- evil
- expletive
- filthiness
- foulness
- immodesty
- impropriety
- impurity
- indecency
- indelicacy
- lewdness
- licentiousness
- lubricity
- oath
- offense
- outrage
- porn
- pornography
- profanity
- prurience
- salacity
- scatology
- scurrility
- sleaze
- smut
- smuttiness
- vileness
- vulgarity
- wrong
Example Sentences
However some users have displayed swearwords and flashed body parts, while video of the 11 September attacks was transmitted to New York viewers.
The home secretary has faced allegations he used a swearword to describe the Labour-run area.
James Cleverly had denied claims he called the Stockton North constituency a swearword in response to a question in the Commons from Alex Cunningham.
He was part of the Cambridge team which won University Challenge in 1995, although he generated headlines for uttering a swearword after he buzzed in and forgot the answer to a question.
And while the dialogue is pretty spartan, including many iterations of “Are you okay?” and “It’s okay,” punctuated by periodic swearwords, the cinematography is suitably, almost sweepingly acrophobic.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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