dirty word
Example Sentences
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Beyond their dirtbag tendencies, there is another reason why the name “Tkachuk” is almost a dirty word in hockey circles.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2026
Brian Stelter, CNN's chief media analyst, recently tweeted that “fact-check” had become a dirty word.
From Salon • Jan. 26, 2025
According to Mr Martin: "Regulation was a dirty word."
From BBC • Aug. 31, 2024
Nonetheless, Scripps treated “vocabulary” like a dirty word, instead employing a euphemism: “word meaning.”
From Seattle Times • May 28, 2024
His mother frowned, like she wasn't sure whether that counted as a dirty word.
From "Eleanor & Park" by Rainbow Rowell
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
