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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
The home secretary has faced allegations he used a swearword to describe the Labour-run area.
Mr Cleverly used a swearword while present during Prime Minister's Questions on 22 November.
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 had alleged the swearword was used during Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday.
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.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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