naughty word
Example Sentences
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Norris even used a naughty word as a jokey insult during a good-natured exchange with Whitehall.
From BBC • Feb. 18, 2025
It’s so plausibly innocuous — there’s not a naughty word in the bunch — which is what ultimately makes it so cunning.
From Washington Post • Jul. 19, 2019
They should be considered judiciously and not let loose like a seventh-grader learning a naughty word.
From Washington Times • Oct. 8, 2018
In recent years, connoisseurship has become a naughty word in the art world.
From Salon • Apr. 9, 2017
Virtue seems such a pretty playing at make-believe, and vice is such a naughty word.
From Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution by Waller, Alfred Rayney
