profanity

Example Sentences

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She said she volunteered in November to mediate the meetings, instructing residents to wait their turn to speak or rephrase their questions without profanity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 11, 2026

More recent performers have included this past year's headliner Kendrick Lamar, the rapper who cut out profanity but still performed a viral diss track of his rival Drake.

From Barron's • Oct. 22, 2025

Content review is assisted by bots such as ClueBot NG, which identifies profanity and unencyclopedic punctuation like “!!!11.”

From Slate • Aug. 24, 2023

“The magnitude of the value of the Bible as a literary work outweighs any violence or profanity which may be contained in the book,” Davis School District Board Vice President Brigit Gerrard said.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 20, 2023

Obscenity and profanity had no meaning as such among those people.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith