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  2. Profanity - Wikipedia

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    Profanity is often depicted in images by grawlixes, which substitute symbols for words.. Profanity, also known as swearing, cursing, or cussing, involves the use of notionally offensive words for a variety of purposes, including to demonstrate disrespect or negativity, to relieve pain, to express a strong emotion, as a grammatical intensifier or emphasis, or to express informality or ...

  3. Category:English profanity - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "English profanity" The following 65 pages are in this category, out of 65 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...

  4. Seven dirty words - Wikipedia

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    A poster in a WBAI broadcast booth which warns radio broadcasters against using the words. The seven dirty words are seven English language profanity words that American comedian George Carlin first listed in his 1972 "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television" monologue. [1]

  5. Category:Profanity by language - Wikipedia

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    English profanity (65 P) F. Finnish profanity (8 P) French profanity (4 P) G. German profanity (7 P) P. Polish profanity (6 P) R. Russian profanity (7 P) S. Spanish ...

  6. Expletive infixation - Wikipedia

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    Expletive infixation is a process by which an expletive or profanity is inserted into a word, usually for intensification. It is similar to tmesis, but not all instances are covered by the usual definition of tmesis because the words are not necessarily compounds.

  7. Harris utters a profanity in advice to young Asian Americans ...

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    Vice President Kamala Harris used a profanity on Monday while offering advice to young Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders about how to break through barriers. Harris was ...

  8. Harris utters a profanity in advice to young Asian Americans ...

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    Profanity in politics is not altogether unusual. This past weekend, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump led a crowd at a rally chanting “bulls—-" in reference to his criminal trial in New York City. When Joe Biden was vice president, he was overheard telling President Barack Obama that newly passed health care ...

  9. Expletive (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    "Bloody", as an attributive adjective, is an optional constituent of the sentence (thus not an expletive in the syntactical sense) and is a profanity. "Shit" is necessary to the sentence, and it is a profanity. "Hey" is not a profanity, but it is unnecessary.