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Examples of cuss in a Sentence
a man who has never uttered a single cuss
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The iffy bullpen has turned late innings into boom times for family cuss jars and stores that sell nicotine patches.
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Bailey as a young cuss once showed up in the home clubhouse with a knife tucked into his boot.
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Nevin had been a fixture in the Villanova program, time and his illness transforming him from the ornery cuss who taped ankles into the resident prankster who dropped cigar butts in players’ sneakers before games.
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So to hear this no-negotiation dating tip from my calm, reasonable grandmother, whom local lore said never uttered a cuss word in her 96 years on earth, was surprising.
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Friends called him a cantankerous cuss who hated talk about himself.
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This gallery also contains a rare example of an English cuss word appearing in a Japanese Nintendo manual.
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Before her Alzheimer's started progressing, Sandra was a voluble and vibrant person who could command a room, weighing in on any discussion and - perhaps to liven things up - peppering the conversation with cuss words.
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Before her Alzheimer’s started progressing, Sandra was a voluble and vibrant person who could command a room, weighing in on any discussion and — perhaps to liven things up — peppering the conversation with cuss words.
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Origin and Etymology of cuss
alteration of curse
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First Known Use: 1771
in the meaning defined at sense 1a
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Definition of cuss
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cusser
nounExamples of cuss in a Sentence
She started to yell and cuss as soon as she saw him.
the little girl clapped her hands over her ears when her brother started cussing
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While holding a hand up to his face, the man — once again — started walking toward Carr, cussing and calling her names.
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The bride flipped out and cussed out the mother-in-law.
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Not many folks get to be cussed out, by name, on national television by the President of the United States.
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Hall's version: Sneed began fussing and cussing at him for missing a turn.
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Fine, whatever—Ben Carson didn’t cuss anyone out or refer to himself in the third person, but doesn’t that feel like a Ben Carson thing to do?
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White said Cuban cussed out those around him before storming off.
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The video of him cussing out the arresting officers went viral soon after.
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Earlier research had found some patients who suffered loss of verbal ability due to damage to brain areas associated with more routine speech may still retain their ability to swear, bolstering the idea that cussing is centered elsewhere.
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First Known Use of cuss
1768
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