cuss

Example Sentences

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Cutting back to Tuesday on the radio, DJ Envy asked her, “What’s up with you and farts?” as Curtis mentioned using “fart digger” and “fart knocker” as HGTV-palatable cuss words.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2026

Shapiro isn’t the kind of norm-breaking politician who might be expected to cuss in public.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 25, 2024

Instead I had become a public-interest lawyer, before my disease took that from me, and had allowed myself to cuss occasionally, but this was a real departure.

From Washington Post • Jul. 29, 2022

Reintroducing the Colonel and branding him as “The Original Celebrity Chef” represented a strategic imperative for KFC, especially in the time before “foodie” became a tiresome cuss word of its own.

From Slate • Dec. 11, 2020

“Why is it you like to cuss so much, Dante?”

From "Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe" by Benjamin Alire Saenz