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Recent Examples of profanity Colman only drops profanity’s crown jewel a few times in The Roses. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 27 Aug. 2025 Mostly no, though Cumberbatch and Colman put their own vinegary spin on McNamara’s tasty dialogue, which, as anyone who has seen The Favourite, Poor Things or Hulu’s The Great might guess, is laced with spectacular flights of profanity. David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 25 Aug. 2025 The employee said a juvenile inside the restaurant was becoming loud, aggressive and was threatening employees and using profanities, according to a report from The South Bend Tribune. Katie Wiseman, IndyStar, 23 Aug. 2025 Jenna Bush Hager brought a little spicy energy to Today With Jenna & Friends on Thursday, when the NBC personality used profanity during a live broadcast, much to the shock of colleague Willie Geist and her behind-the-scenes crew members. EW.com, 25 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for profanity
Recent Examples of Synonyms for profanity
Noun
  • Some monks who were once forced off the island put a curse on it and everyone who ever took anything away from it.
    Sara Stridsberg September 15, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025
  • When her curse begins to affect her physically, Amada travels to the Abyss to seek a cure from the Grand Warlock.
    Mia Sosa, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Scott also wanted that level of vulgarity because the song was inspired by true events.
    Mya Abraham, VIBE.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The sour stench of the carcasses was a vulgarity almost too great to bear.
    Nathaniel Rich, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The expansion will also include more language support, with plans to increase access to consulting and capital assistance in Spanish and Marshallese, according to an organization news release.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 11 Sep. 2025
  • There is no time limit on how long such consultations could take, and experts say the language is flexible enough to allow each member to decide how far to go in responding to armed aggression against another.
    Matt Spetalnick, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Brain rot has become unavoidable, its grossness ubiquitous.
    Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Taylor and Hinkle swear by bonnets, while Royal and others recommend tying longer styles into a loose bun or braid before wrapping.
    Larry Stansbury, Essence, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Patullo tore off his headset with a rare and celebratory swear.
    Brooks Kubena, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Some of us yelled obscenities instead.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Since Missouri vanity plates have to follow the state obscenity law, a court would need to find that the state law violates the First Amendment.
    Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Don’t give a (expletive) about the loss.
    Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Each room elicited an expletive, at least from my potty-mouth.
    Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • There’s some rudeness, aggressive conversations, and crudeness, but nothing too over the top.
    Lynnette Nicholas, Parents, 4 Aug. 2025

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“Profanity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/profanity. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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