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What "&%$#" might replace
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expletive
Alternative clues for the word expletive
Word definitions for expletive in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Serving to fill up, merely for effect, otherwise redundant. 2 Marked by expletives (phrase-fillers). n. 1 A profane, vulgar term, notably a curse or obscene oath. 2 (context linguistics English) A word without meaning added to fill a syntactic position. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., in grammar, "correlative," from Latin expletivus "serving to fill out" (see expletive (n.)).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Expletive \Ex"ple*tive\, n. A word, letter, or syllable not necessary to the sense, but inserted to fill a vacancy; an oath. While explectives their feeble aid to join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line. --Pope.
Usage examples of expletive.
With another expletive, this one directed at the smirking toad at her side, she stomped to the end of the dais and down the short set of stairs.
He let out an expletive when she began to work the base of his cock with her hand.
After looking down at her glossy bowed head for a moment, Christos released a strong expletive and fell onto his knees beside her.
Kent said, as a particularly outraged expletive echoed along the hall.
He whistled an expletive and stopped trying to find a Universal word to describe akhenets.
Once the darkness came he began muttering expletives at everything about his life that he found disappointing.
He jerked his head round, heedless of the phaeton, and the next instant the wheels of both vehicles were locked, and much more violent expletives were issuing from the lips of the down-the-road man.
Stansfield watched him walk back and forth, shaking his fist and letting a stream of expletives flow from his mouth.
Jeff blinked, and straightened a little, obviously aware that some expletives are not in universal circulation.
By the time we reached our destination my husband had shed ten years, and as we made our way through the chaos of the Cairo train station he was the old Emerson, shouting orders and expletives in fluent Arabic.
Though embroidered with expletives and complaints, the gist of his speech was simple enough.
His expletives were extremely mild compared to those he heard every day, but they were of his own devising.
English to understand the torrent of undeleted expletives that Stoke was hurling in her direction.
Arabic expletives as his best Amn Al-Khans battalion was decimated by the ISET and the F-16s.
For five minutes, Kohler paced and cursed his friend, conjuring expletives and variations of expletives only another Brooklynite could reassemble.