What is "expletives"

Usage examples of "expletives".

Ronnie sensed anger too deep for any common expletives, even in one so accomplished.

For a short time the discovery that she had remembered so many expletives that ladies were not supposed to notice amused her.

The vanillas, when they cursed, did so with a sense of risk taken, as if the expletives might pop in their mouths like flimsy balloons and sting their tongues.

She too felt the little shock of surprise when she heard the expletives come out of her own mouth with no immediate punishment.

Judging by the expletives and the shaking of fists, they were causing havoc in the woods.

Then with a flurry of Gallic expletives, Guy rode into the arena and proceeded to lay waste the course.

I knew I could never catch Emerson up, but I went as fast as I dared, and I uttered a few low-voiced expletives of my own as I hurried along.

A string of expletives and complaints, loudly uttered, assured me that his vocal powers at least were unimpaired.

Each of these expletives has been "gutter talk" at one time and risen to be acceptable in mixed company through usage which causes its shock value to fade.

He jumped back, slapping his aching proboscis, hissing expletives in Spanish.

He went far back in the niches of his memory and dug up choice expletives, goading personalities and plain insults.