cuss
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Shapiro isn’t the kind of norm-breaking politician who might be expected to cuss in public.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 25, 2024
Oftentimes I would talk people down from this righteous anger, then I would be like, “So don’t cuss people out you don’t know,” and then they’d be like, “Yeah, you’re right.”
From Slate ● Mar. 2, 2023
“I never heard her use a cuss word my whole life,” Wylie says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2022
She doesn't cuss more than other athletes — or their coaches.
From Salon ● Feb. 6, 2022
“War,” said Miss Franny with her eyes still closed, “should be a cuss word, too.”
From "Because of Winn-Dixie" by Kate DiCamillo
“Obviously, Jared cusses, and I’ve told people that, and they’re so surprised,” Williams said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2022
On Guy Fieri: “He cusses like a chef,” Helle said.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 19, 2015
Just because somebody cusses doesn’t make them a bad person and just because a guy doesn’t cuss doesn’t make him a good person.
From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2010
I heard a lot of things, cusses and cheers, jokes and conches, horns and drums, but nothing that sounded like a distinctive phrase.
From The Guardian ● May 5, 2010
I didn’t know what most of Doug Swieteck’s brother’s cusses meant, either, and it didn’t make all that much difference.
From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt
“He never yelled at me. Never cussed at me. Never lost his temper with me or the kids,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
It was a performance that recalled the cussed stubbornness of great England teams past.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2023
Often recognized by his trademark sailor’s cap, Newman also wrote two dozen books and earned the informal title of Canada’s “most cussed and discussed commentator,” said HarperCollins, one of his publishers, in an author’s note.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 7, 2023
Over her refusal to comply with the school’s mandate, Smith told the paper that people have "cussed her out" and that some of her best friends "won’t talk to me."
From Fox News ● Oct. 11, 2021
I once asked Gram if she would really go back to the egg man if Gramps cussed too much.
From "Walk Two Moons" by Sharon Creech
“But that’ll die out if there’s no emotional current underneath. The cussing has context. As long as there is an emotional story underneath the bells and whistles of cussing, then that works.”
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 26, 2024
As late as 1974, Richard Pryor was arrested for “disorderly conduct” simply for cussing in his stand-up act.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2023
Is cussing a part of communication for Scientology believers, one officially sanctioned or dictated?
From Salon ● Apr. 29, 2022
“They are under attack constantly,” he said, noting that police officers decades ago could “arrest someone for cussing them out,” until court rulings curtailed such police powers.
From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2021
Her pregame instructions were spare: no cussing, and no tackling from behind.
From "Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference" by Warren St. John
