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Noun
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As the Oxford English Dictionary notes, the expression not hardly is considered a vulgarism.—
NR Editors,
National Review,
16 Apr. 2020 -
The British cringed over new American accents, coinages and vulgarisms.—
Time,
Time,
11 June 2019
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Yet the movie also contains, by my count, more than a dozen significant obscenities, as well as enough death to scar the Bluey crowd for life.—
Graham Hillard,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
21 Mar. 2025
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Other states don’t allow numerical digits, obscenity, or names of people who have committed atrocities, according to US Birth Certificates.—
Anna Halkidis,
Parents,
23 Jan. 2025
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Owned by the American toy company Hasbro, Monopoly is licensed to 113 countries and printed in 46 languages around the globe.—
Ann Rutledge,
Forbes,
17 Mar. 2025
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The steak house speaks its own language, no matter how much of the menu is retitled in French.—
Helen Rosner,
The New Yorker,
16 Mar. 2025
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Some fear the trend away from DEI will accelerate now that Trump has turned it into a dirty word.—
Angelique Jackson,
Variety,
4 Mar. 2025
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While diversity, equity and inclusion have become dirty words in Washington, D.C, that’s not true among local beer professionals.—
Peter Rowe,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
21 Feb. 2025
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The rules include abstaining from substances that are already forbidden by the LDS Church, practicing chastity, forgoing the use of profanity and following a dress code that prohibits men from wearing beards or goatees and requires skirts to be no shorter than knee-length.—
Ashley Hume,
Fox News,
18 Mar. 2025
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Candidates for the Summit Hill Elementary District 161 Board denounced a note featuring profanity and anti-Muslim sentiment as reprehensible rhetoric from a community member.—
Michelle Mullins,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Mar. 2025
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Carey then stood, accused Edwards of lying and used a string of expletives until police escorted him out of the auditorium.—
Hannah Schoenbaum,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Mar. 2025
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Around the five-second mark in the video, the toddler turns to the camera, still in her mom's arms, to mime along to an expletive in the GloRilla track playing over the video.—
Mark Davis,
Newsweek,
14 Mar. 2025
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Could a nice good swear on the pitch to express one’s anger stop a player from lashing out physically, channelling their anger through their vocal cords rather than their fists?—
Nick Miller,
The Athletic,
21 Feb. 2025
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The station asked the band not to include the swears.—
Kris Holt,
Forbes,
2 Dec. 2024
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“Bawdry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bawdry. Accessed 27 Mar. 2025.
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