cussing
Example Sentences
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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
“We must always be on guard against mediocre cussing in our writing,” the novelist Katherine Dunn wrote, in a small book called “On Cussing.”
From New York Times • Sep. 16, 2019
Partly because so much of the audio was cut out for cussing, it wasn’t the best-sounding Grammy performance, but it was probably the most alive moment of the night.
From Slate • Feb. 11, 2019
This was the same Vonetta who had recited “We Real Cool” until it drove Cecile to a cussing fit This was Vonetta who had said, “We should do this poem.”
From "One Crazy Summer" by Rita Williams-Garcia
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.