profanity

Example Sentences

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She said she volunteered in November to mediate the meetings, instructing residents to wait their turn to speak or rephrase their questions without profanity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 11, 2026

More recent performers have included this past year's headliner Kendrick Lamar, the rapper who cut out profanity but still performed a viral diss track of his rival Drake.

From Barron's • Oct. 22, 2025

Content review is assisted by bots such as ClueBot NG, which identifies profanity and unencyclopedic punctuation like “!!!11.”

From Slate • Aug. 24, 2023

The department says it doesn’t recognize what it calls “tactical language,” which can include profanity, to get compliance from an uncooperative suspects, especially in high-risk scenarios.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 2, 2023

Afterward, they regroup in the living room for board games and goofy improvisation contests, all free of profanity and even double entendre.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times