as in obscene
depicting or referring to sexual matters in a way that is unacceptable in polite society
uttered an unprintable oath when he saw stocks take their worst slide ever
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Recent Examples of unprintable
Early in his career, he was known for generating headlines—some of them unprintable—and a temper that could have started fights in an empty room.
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Greg Engle, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
Che and Jost give each other savage one-liners — unprintable, in some cases.
—Andy Hoglund Updated, EW.com, 18 May 2025
Conservative commentators piled on as well, with the network’s Lisa Kennedy Montgomery used an unprintable insult to call Crockett an attention-seeker.
—Saul Elbein, The Hill, 27 Mar. 2025
But even if computers are [unprintable expletives], their problems have often been encountered and fixed by some other poor soul.
—Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, 22 Mar. 2025
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Greg Engle, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
Che and Jost give each other savage one-liners — unprintable, in some cases.
—Andy Hoglund Updated, EW.com, 18 May 2025
Conservative commentators piled on as well, with the network’s Lisa Kennedy Montgomery used an unprintable insult to call Crockett an attention-seeker.
—Saul Elbein, The Hill, 27 Mar. 2025
But even if computers are [unprintable expletives], their problems have often been encountered and fixed by some other poor soul.
—Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, 22 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unprintable
Adjective
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Beside one of those blandly obscene bidets.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 Oct. 2025
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But the show avoided an FCC probe as the West Coast delay was censored, and the East Coast broadcast aired after the 6am-10pm window during which obscene content is prohibited on broadcast TV and radio.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
19 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Who decides what’s decorous and what’s vulgar?—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
25 Oct. 2025
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The president has been targeting Jeffries online with offensive and vulgar memes since the pair first had an unsuccessful sit-down meeting in the Oval Office just before the shutdown.—
Zachary Schermele,
USA Today,
9 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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While some individuals have produced hardcore pornographic clips starring Disney and comic book characters, others on the platform have succeeded in prompting Grok Imagine to conjure lewd imagery of Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, and Sydney Sweeney.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
23 Oct. 2025
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OpenAI included numerous guardrails with Sora, including moderation, restrictions on scammy, violent and pornographic material, watermarks and controls over how one's likeness is used.—
Bobby Allyn,
NPR,
10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The discrepancy has divided voters, stirred up nasty social media exchanges and even inspired an 18-year-old Lakota grad to throw his hat in the district's school board race.—
Grace Tucker,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
29 Oct. 2025
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And any school or school district that does try to discriminate, that man right there will probably first send you a nasty gram and then drop the hammer.—
Kimberlee Speakman,
PEOPLE,
29 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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SulfurSolve aims to play a central role in transforming a deadly, foul-smelling fuel into usable resources.—
Sixteen Ramos,
USA Today,
3 Nov. 2025
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Guerrero ended the top of the fourth inning with a diving catch into foul territory, repeating Daulton Varsho’s defensive brilliance from moments before.—
Fabian Ardaya,
New York Times,
2 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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The clinic was dirtier than any of the animal hospitals that Strickland had worked in, with swarms of cockroaches hiding between the metal cages.—
Ava Kofman,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025
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Also, dual water tanks ensure the robot vacuum is not recirculating dirty water on my hard floors.—
Terri Williams,
Architectural Digest,
3 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Jackson Lamb has long, greasy hair and a pot belly over which hangs a filthy old trench coat.—
Barbara Ellis,
Denver Post,
20 Oct. 2025
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On the other end, Ja’Marr Chase is coming off an absolutely filthy touchdown grab last Sunday.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Denying people the essentials necessary for their survival, to obtain compliance or a political agreement, should be unacceptable.—
Anna Halford,
Time,
25 Oct. 2025
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Controversy arose earlier this year after residents, a council member and the mayor declared a cooling station set up for homeless residents and others without adequate heating and cooling as unacceptable.—
Rebecca Noel,
Charlotte Observer,
24 Oct. 2025
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“Unprintable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unprintable. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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