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Profanity

The quality or state of being profane; profaneness; irreverence; esp., the use of profane language; blasphemy.

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Blasphemy 76% connected

An indignity offered to God in words, writing, or signs; impiously irreverent words or signs addressed to, or used in reference to, God; speaking evi…

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Curse 76% connected

To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate.

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Expletive 76% connected

Filling up; hence, added merely for the purpose of filling up; superfluous.

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Filth 76% connected

Foul matter; anything that soils or defiles; dirt; nastiness.

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Oath 76% connected

A solemn affirmation or declaration, made with a reverent appeal to God for the truth of what is affirmed.

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Obscenity 76% connected

That quality in words or things which presents what is offensive to chasity or purity of mind; obscene or impure lanquage or acts; moral impurity; le…

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Smut 76% connected

Foul matter, like soot or coal dust; also, a spot or soil made by such matter.

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Swearing 76% connected

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Vulgarism 76% connected

Grossness; rudeness; vulgarity.

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Utterance 76% connected

The act of uttering.

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Vocalization 76% connected

The act of vocalizing, or the state of being vocalized.

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Profane 74% connected

Not sacred or holy; not possessing peculiar sanctity; unconsecrated; hence, relating to matters other than sacred; secular; -- opposed to sacred, rel…

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Profane 74% connected

Not sacred or holy; not possessing peculiar sanctity; unconsecrated; hence, relating to matters other than sacred; secular; -- opposed to sacred, rel…

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