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Profanity synonyms

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abuse
Improper or excessive use; misuse:
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  1. Improper or excessive use; misuse:
  2. Physical maltreatment or violence:
  3. Sexual abuse.
cursing
The act of one who curses.
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  1. The act of one who curses.
swearing
The act of swearing, or making an oath.
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  1. The act of swearing, or making an oath.
obscenity
An obscene remark, act, event, etc.
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  1. An obscene remark, act, event, etc.
  2. Something, such as a word, act, or expression, that is indecent or lewd.
  3. Indecency, lewdness, or offensiveness in behavior, expression, or appearance.
coarseness
The property of being coarse, roughness or primitiveness, unrefined or unpolished.
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  1. The property of being coarse, roughness or primitiveness, unrefined or unpolished.
  2. The quality or state of being coarse; as, coarseness of food, texture, manners, or language.
filthiness
The property of being filthy
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  1. The property of being filthy
foulness
An island off the east coast of Essex where the Thames estuary joins the North Sea.
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  1. An island off the east coast of Essex where the Thames estuary joins the North Sea.
  2. The state of being foul
lewdness
The property of being lewd.
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  1. The property of being lewd.
  2. Indecent behavior offensive to observers. Indecent behavior offensive to observers.
obscenity
The state or quality of being obscene
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  1. The state or quality of being obscene
  2. Indecency, lewdness, or offensiveness in behavior, expression, or appearance.
  3. Something, such as a word, act, or expression, that is indecent or lewd.
profaneness
The quality of being profane; profanity.
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  1. The quality of being profane; profanity.
scurrility
A scurrilous act or remark
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  1. A scurrilous act or remark
  2. Something that is scurrilous.
  3. A vulgar, coarse, or abusive remark or passage.
scurrilousness
The property of being scurrilous.
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  1. The property of being scurrilous.
vulgarity
Something, such as an act or expression, that offends good taste or propriety.
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  1. Something, such as an act or expression, that offends good taste or propriety.
  2. The state or quality of being vulgar, crude, coarse, unrefined, etc.
  3. A vulgar act, habit, usage in speech, etc.
raunch
Raunchy things
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  1. Raunchy things
  2. Material or a performance that is sexually explicit or evocative:
  3. Lewdness; vulgarity; obscenity.
raunchiness
The characteristic of being raunchy.
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  1. The characteristic of being raunchy.
bawdry
(Archaic) The occupation of a bawd
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  1. (Archaic) The occupation of a bawd
  2. Risqué, coarse, or obscene language.
dirt
Material, such as gravel or slag, from which metal is extracted in mining.
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  1. Material, such as gravel or slag, from which metal is extracted in mining.
  2. Any unclean or soiling matter, as mud, dust, dung, trash, etc.; filth
  3. A filthy or soiling substance, such as mud or dust.
filth
A dirty or corrupt condition; foulness.
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  1. A dirty or corrupt condition; foulness.
  2. Something, such as language or printed matter, considered obscene, prurient, or immoral.
  3. Disgustingly offensive dirt, garbage, etc.
obscenity
An obscene remark, act, event, etc.
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  1. An obscene remark, act, event, etc.
  2. Indecency, lewdness, or offensiveness in behavior, expression, or appearance.
  3. Something, such as a word, act, or expression, that is indecent or lewd.
ribaldry
Vulgar, lewdly humorous language or joking or an instance of it.
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  1. Vulgar, lewdly humorous language or joking or an instance of it.
  2. An example of ribald language or humor
scatology
Obscenity or obsession with the obscene, esp. with excrement or excretion, in literature
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  1. Obscenity or obsession with the obscene, esp. with excrement or excretion, in literature
  2. The study of feces or of fossil excrement
  3. Obscene language or literature, especially that dealing pruriently or humorously with excrement and excretory functions.
smut
A mark made by something dirty; soiled spot
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  1. A mark made by something dirty; soiled spot
  2. Any of various bacidiomycete fungi that are parasitic on plants and are distinguished by the black, powdery masses of spores that appear as sooty smudges on the affected plant parts. Smuts are parasitic chiefly on cereal grasses like corn and wheat and can cause enormous damage to crops.
  3. A particle of dirt or soot:
vulgarity
The state or quality of being vulgar, crude, coarse, unrefined, etc.
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  1. The state or quality of being vulgar, crude, coarse, unrefined, etc.
  2. A vulgar act, habit, usage in speech, etc.
  3. Something, such as an act or expression, that offends good taste or propriety.
raunch
Material or a performance that is sexually explicit or evocative:
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  1. Material or a performance that is sexually explicit or evocative:
  2. Raunchy things
  3. Lewdness; vulgarity; obscenity.
Find another word for profanity. In this page you can discover 33 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for profanity, like: abuse, cursing, swearing, obscenity, blasphemy, curse, bawdiness, coarseness, dirtiness, filthiness and foulness.

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  • The charges it occasioned of profanity and irreverence were natural, but groundless.

  • With a squeal of brakes Dean narrowly missed the rider in front, who shouted a profanity and spun sideways to a stop in the road­side gravel, miraculously maintaining balance.

  • The Book abounds in hypercriticism, particularly in the imputation of profanity; and in a useless display of learning, neither intrinsically valuable nor conducive to the argument.

  • Wegscheider with infidelity and profanity, and on the ground of these accusations advocated the interposition of the civil power, thus giving rise to the prolonged Hallische Streit.

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