Thesaurus results for DIRTY WORD

dirty word

noun

as in curse

a disrespectful or indecent word or expression I'm afraid I won't be much help on the trip—the only Spanish I know is a handful of dirty words

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Recent Examples on the Web Employment arbitration has become a dirty word on Capitol Hill. —

Lewis L. Maltby, Fortune, 9 May 2024 Tess Owen: Look after January 6, there was a sense among the anti-government movement that militia was like a dirty word. —

Leah Feiger, WIRED, 2 May 2024 Feck may not quite be one of the seven dirty words, but that didn’t stop Golden Globes censors from pulling the trigger when Oppenheimer’s Cillian Murphy said it during his acceptance speech. —

Justin Curto, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2024 And when curiosity means uncovering stories with the potential to upset or embarrass the preferred demographic, curiosity becomes a dirty word. —

Becket Adams, National Review, 24 Dec. 2023 See all Example Sentences for dirty word

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