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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bawdries
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People throwing cigarette butts against the house, yelling obscenities, playing derogatory music.
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While the council remained inside to finish the meeting, including approving a local emergency declaration, police were outside where a small mob gathered, yelling obscenities at the officers.
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In recent years China’s Communist Party has ramped up oversight of religious institutions, rolled back the use of ethnic minority languages in primary, secondary schools and kindergartens.
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Among other things, the council revolutionized the Catholic Church’s relations with other religions and the laity, and allowed Mass to be celebrated in vernacular languages rather than Latin.
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There are faint smudges of pastel crayon on the wall and carved profanities with paint chips revealing the previous cerulean walls.
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And profanities featured in roughly 10% of all clauses, used at a rate substantially higher than the same speakers would use while awake.
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In a section down the first-base line, a sea of shirtless fans chanted expletives at the Phillies but quieted a bit when Brandon Marsh tied the game with a two-run blast on a sweeper that caught too much plate.
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Videos circulating on social media showed drones repeatedly striking the facility, sending large fireballs upward - and expletives tumbling out of many a Russian mouth.
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“Bawdries.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bawdries. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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