Synonyms
Examples of cuss in a Sentence
Noun
a man who has never uttered a single cuss
Verb
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
Recent Examples on the Web
Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2024
This California school board president has 2 DUIs and cusses.
—Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2023
Betty Sykes didn’t give a cuss what came out of her mouth—and much of it was cusses—or who listened.
—Graham Swift, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
How many f**king cuss words are in these sh**ty video games, anyway?
—Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2014
Betty Sykes didn’t give a cuss what came out of her mouth—and much of it was cusses—or who listened.
—Graham Swift, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
The Stamos party happened to be on the same flight out of Munich with U.S. players, and Gregory remembers hearing players, who had refused to accept the silver medals, letting out cuss words over and over.
—Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 10 Sep. 2022
An image of Bender, DiMaggio's alcohol-binging, cigar-smoking, cuss-slinging robot, was used by Hulu to promote the news of the revival — but DiMaggio's name was not mentioned among the returning cast.
—Nick Romano, EW.com, 10 Feb. 2022
There was no way that after almost 20 years, the gun-toting, muumuu-wearing, glad-to-cuss-everybody-out elderly woman would leave so quietly.
—Essence, 28 Jan. 2022
Ruth Graham, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2024
The two bask in a healthy range of vices: drinking, gambling, even just cussing.
—J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 16 Mar. 2024
The tactic that the league seems to be taking, then, is to rely on the referees, rather than the rules, to be reasonable—to consider whether a player already has a technical before issuing another; to ignore cussing or frustrated gestures some of the time, but not all the time.
—Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2024
The 81-year-old told a delightful tale of her international vacation, which included tours of historic sites, delicious food, and cussing out an Italian woman for dessert.
—Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 18 Dec. 2023
The mother of four says that their musical doesn’t warrant more than a PG-13 rating and that the cussing isn’t gratuitous.
—Anne Kniggendorf, Kansas City Star, 31 Jan. 2024
But some lil girl by the name of Elle King apparently cussed and insulted some of Dolly’s fans by not knowing a song.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 22 Jan. 2024
On a Wednesday afternoon in September, Joseph Smith was slowing Bus 73 to a stop near downtown Susanville when a noise rang out, drowning out the cussing middle-schoolers and giggling elementary school kids riding home from class.
—Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2023
While schools can still employ punitive discipline for severe actions such as violence or drug possessions, kids can now cuss out their teacher with impunity.
—Daniel Buck, National Review, 21 Oct. 2023
Noun
The film stays in the perspective of an unstoppable killer/monster named Johnny who frequently uses very sharp objects to prey on campers, rangers, hikers and a crotchety old cuss — all in acts of vengeance for the evil that has been perpetrated on him.
—Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2024
This California school board president has 2 DUIs and cusses.
—Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2023
Betty Sykes didn’t give a cuss what came out of her mouth—and much of it was cusses—or who listened.
—Graham Swift, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
How many f**king cuss words are in these sh**ty video games, anyway?
—Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2014
Betty Sykes didn’t give a cuss what came out of her mouth—and much of it was cusses—or who listened.
—Graham Swift, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
The Stamos party happened to be on the same flight out of Munich with U.S. players, and Gregory remembers hearing players, who had refused to accept the silver medals, letting out cuss words over and over.
—Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 10 Sep. 2022
An image of Bender, DiMaggio's alcohol-binging, cigar-smoking, cuss-slinging robot, was used by Hulu to promote the news of the revival — but DiMaggio's name was not mentioned among the returning cast.
—Nick Romano, EW.com, 10 Feb. 2022
There was no way that after almost 20 years, the gun-toting, muumuu-wearing, glad-to-cuss-everybody-out elderly woman would leave so quietly.
—Essence, 28 Jan. 2022
Verb
Most pastors don’t cuss from the pulpit, or at all.
—Ruth Graham, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2024
The two bask in a healthy range of vices: drinking, gambling, even just cussing.
—J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 16 Mar. 2024
The tactic that the league seems to be taking, then, is to rely on the referees, rather than the rules, to be reasonable—to consider whether a player already has a technical before issuing another; to ignore cussing or frustrated gestures some of the time, but not all the time.
—Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2024
The 81-year-old told a delightful tale of her international vacation, which included tours of historic sites, delicious food, and cussing out an Italian woman for dessert.
—Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 18 Dec. 2023
The mother of four says that their musical doesn’t warrant more than a PG-13 rating and that the cussing isn’t gratuitous.
—Anne Kniggendorf, Kansas City Star, 31 Jan. 2024
But some lil girl by the name of Elle King apparently cussed and insulted some of Dolly’s fans by not knowing a song.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 22 Jan. 2024
On a Wednesday afternoon in September, Joseph Smith was slowing Bus 73 to a stop near downtown Susanville when a noise rang out, drowning out the cussing middle-schoolers and giggling elementary school kids riding home from class.
—Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2023
While schools can still employ punitive discipline for severe actions such as violence or drug possessions, kids can now cuss out their teacher with impunity.
—Daniel Buck, National Review, 21 Oct. 2023
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“Cuss.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cuss. Accessed 16 Apr. 2024.
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