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cuss word
noun as in curse
Strong matches
noun as in dirty word
noun as in expletive
Strongest match
Strong matches
noun as in four-letter word
noun as in malediction
noun as in oath
noun as in profanity
Example Sentences
“I understand she has a campaign to win. And don’t get me wrong, I personally do not want Trump to win, as an immigrant, Muslim, Arab, Palestinian—I mean, he used ‘Palestinian’ as a cuss word, for God’s sake—and this is why I keep pushing on the Democratic Party at the state level and the national level.
“Every now and then you’d hear him utter a cuss word or hear him laugh that old funny laugh he had.”
In any case, attitudes toward the S-word have changed in the last few decades, and it has lost much of its punch as a cuss word, Bergen said.
“I never heard her use a cuss word my whole life,” Wylie says.
That word became a cuss word out there on a Saturday that urged caution, as reflected in the wisdom of a pup, Zalatoris.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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