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Used to be that if you said a swear word, your mama would wash your damn mouth out with soap.

Tom said a very emphatic swear word, which does not look well in print, then buried his head in one of the sofa cushions.

Couldn't make out how many kinds of perfectly swear-word fool he was?

If he did not take a leaf out of the Icelanders' book and make use of their swear-word, Helvit!

It has the advantage of meaning nothing, and that is precisely what a swear word should mean.

This somewhat shocked the ladies, but Mrs. Mayston Ryle could not spoil her point by the omission of a swear word.

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

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