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

Leno advises stand-ups to resist automatically turning to profanity or insults, especially when dealing with hecklers.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 10, 2023

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

From Slate • Aug. 24, 2023

Displays of temper were almost unheard of; no utterances of profanity are recorded in the extensive recollections of his students and colleagues.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik