Thesaurus results for SWEARWORDS

swearwords

noun

plural of swearword

as in curses

a disrespectful or indecent word or expression this is a list of swearwords that are not permitted on this radio program

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Directed by Sébastien Vanicek (2023’s Infested), the follow-up to 2023 reboot Evil Dead Rise stars Wednesday‘s Hunter Doohan in a story about curses lingering too long in a family and the undead that haunts them.

— Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 7 July 2026
Morgan and her Judgment Day cronies tried to bribe Danhausen to put curses on their opponents.

— Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 28 June 2026

Definition of curses

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As Hwang and her partner placed the ticket on the car’s windshield and were returning to their vehicle, the vehicle’s owner approached, yelling expletives and ripping the citation to pieces.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 31 July 2026
Instead of simply letting the girls enjoy the game, Seattle Storm co-owner Celeste Keaton confronted them and unleashed a string of expletives.

— Alejandro Avila OutKick, FOXNews.com, 31 July 2026

Definition of expletives

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The crowds ignored the best efforts of the protest leaders to act as disciplinary conductors and reveled in their own playful spontaneity, their slogans and posters heaping colorful profanities on the prime minister.

— Asim Ali, Time, 1 Aug. 2026
Barnacle said Arrabaca, who repaired Patriot missile systems in the Army from 2001 to 2005, derided ICE with profanities during his arrest.

— ABC News, ABC News, 21 July 2026

Definition of profanities

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Relief pitcher Caleb Ferguson was not happy, shouting obscenities at the umpire and ripping him for his appearance.

— Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 21 July 2026
An original call for service indicated that suspects pulled up to a CBS media vehicle and began shouting racial obscenities at a CBS cameraman who is Black, a law enforcement source said.

— Tess Kenny, Chicago Tribune, 30 June 2026

Definition of obscenities

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The event finds more than 20,000 people participating in an annual bar crawl throughout the city while dressed in their best holiday attire, tackiest Santa Claus costumes, and ugliest Christmas swears.

— Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 15 Apr. 2026
Kennedy could be heard hurling swears at the Swedish team.

— Andrew Greif, NBC news, 23 Feb. 2026

Definition of swears

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Local players globally are building AI-native products on local rails, in local languages, with local licenses and with local context, years before that attention arrives.

— Alex Lazarow, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
Lawmakers in New Zealand have passed a bill to make English one of the country’s official languages.

— Amarachi Orie, CNN Money, 3 Aug. 2026

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Social media has teemed with unsavory videos of Argentinean misbehavior in the stadiums, including fans hurling racial epithets at a Black American influencer and showering Egyptians with beer.

— Ishaan Tharoor, New Yorker, 16 July 2026
Mendelsohn also retains Homer’s repetitious epithets for characters that some modern translations—written for the silent reader of the 21st century—have slimmed down.

— Chris Moody, The Atlantic, 16 July 2026

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