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His hands outstretched, shoulders in submission, there was no shouting, no expletives, no aggression at all.

A network insider insisted: “No expletives were uttered by Mr Mason in the recording of his rant.”

Many of the agents were insensitive and crass, shouting insults and expletives at the detainees in Spanish.

This video is mildly NSFW due to expletives that, let's face it, any of us would say if Bill Murray just showed up at random.

After playing a golf game, candidates scored lower on the swearing fluency test, only being able to recall seven expletives.

His expletives were varied, vivid and inexhaustible, and the turbid stream was easily set flowing.

Lucian attaches an intelligible meaning to these flippant expletives, and represents Socrates as justifying their use.

How defiant and versatile were the expletives of the old French nobility, we may learn from the pages of Brantôme.

Reputations for courage and audacity have thus been hourly established by the careful insinuation of hideous expletives.

They were simple if not altogether innocent expletives—imaginative phrases wherewith to round off a sentence.

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On this page you'll find 17 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to expletives, such as: four-letter word, profanity, blasphemy, cursing, cuss, and cussing.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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