Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An obscene or blasphemous word.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
swear word .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger
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Examples
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Random House Children’s Books has agreed to remove a four-letter swearword from a popular book by Dame Jacqueline Wilson after complaints from Anne Dixon, who insists she is standing up for values of common decency.
A little more creeping censorship: the T word | Diane Duane's weblog: "Out of Ambit" 2008
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And without emotion, all that is left of a swearword is the word itself, unlikely to soothe anyone's pain.
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"Hope" has of late become a kind of swearword for conservatives, so Daniels might have seemed to be winding up for a jab at Obama.
Latest Articles 2009
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And yet these books abided by those standards for whose passing you give thanks, and included not a single swearword, not a single sex scene.
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Have you worked the casual swearword smackdown into the events of Clusterflockstock?
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Every curse and swearword that Rasmussen had ever heard of tumbled through his head, fighting for airtime that none of them got.
Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011
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They seem to reflect a superstitious desire to thwart bad luck for invoking Christ's name while creating a socially acceptable swearword to use in public.
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And yet these books abided by those standards for whose passing you give thanks, and included not a single swearword, not a single sex scene ....
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Every curse and swearword that Rasmussen had ever heard of tumbled through his head, fighting for airtime that none of them got.
Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011
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Rick, I been kinda multitasking lately, but the casual swearword smackdown is on my radar.
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