expletive
Example Sentences
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Chabria: As someone known to routinely curse in polite society, I’m not one to judge an expletive.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2025
Former PM Boris Johnson famously used an expletive when asked about business concerns during the Brexit negotiations.
From BBC • Feb. 6, 2024
"Hey Congresspeople! Beware! Hell hath no fury like a . . . scorned," he adds, making a cutesy little face where one guesses an expletive would have otherwise been verbalized.
From Salon • Dec. 15, 2023
McLemore’s use of an expletive to describe his hometown gives the podcast its abbreviated title.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 4, 2023
If you hear the word, “Impossible!” spoken as an expletive, followed by laughter, you will know that someone’s orderly research plan is coming along nicely.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
Vocabulary lists containing expletive
Between Shades of Gray
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We Dream of Space
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Somewhere Between Bitter and Sweet
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