cuss

Example Sentences

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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

“But as long as disabled people are killed for being disabled,” he said, “I will rage against the night and we will light candles as protest and we will cuss and we will pray.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2023

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

“Yeh, so how come he tip his hat to Sula? How come he don’t cuss her?”

From "Sula" by Toni Morrison