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- verb Present participle of
curse .
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Examples
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Yelling and cursing is a small part of what she does to do to get her point across by creating “rock-bottom” moments.
Jillian Michaels' 'Biggest Loser' spin-off will solve all life's problems...loudly | EW.com 2009
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He counted them with care, and then joined his partner in cursing the power of the Wild that had robbed them of another dog.
The She-Wolf 2010
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BTW – Levin cursing was him quoting the Goldman Sachs internal emails to each other – let's get the facts right.
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Maybe the negative effect of cursing is seen in the fact that not only are these words now commonly used but the things that they refer to are now considered cheap and common place and have lost any sense of mystery.
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And Revs and priest should not be cursing from the pulpit.
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New York shot 60 percent in the third quarter, charging back to grab an 89-88 lead on Robinson's 3-pointer with 1: 05 remaining, about the time a disgusted Kenyon Martin began cursing from the Nuggets 'bench about letting the Knicks hang around.
USATODAY.com 2008
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Sexuality and cursing is part of society and good TV, sure if tis ALL there is its a poor show, but we have a great sci-fi WITH it on top, now thats just dandy …. leafpicker
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That is, traditional manly family values ... where men are manly, cursing is to be applauded when used by these real men, and paying for heterosexual sex is something to applaud.
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That is, traditional manly family values ... where men are manly, cursing is to be applauded when used by these real men, and paying for heterosexual sex is something to applaud.
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At least Steven Pinker can tell us why we curse and why cursing is so goddamn hard to give up:
All Be Galdangit 2007
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