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bad language

n. profanity.

Usage examples of "bad language".

They all fell to bad language again, and, realizing that they wished the cordial, and our supply being limited, we were compelled to abandon the treatment.

The business of going to Cambridge was often accompanied by much bad language, sotto voce, and grumbling over the idea of wearing a suit and tie every day—.

No deafening sounds of cart wheels, no cries of hawkers, no bad language from boatmen or watermen!

Sir Henry followed suit with a verse out of the Old Testament, and something about Balbus building a wall, in Latin, whilst Good addressed the Queen of Night in a volume of the most classical bad language which he could think of.

When he remembered the body parts of people, still-living organs mounted on a wall for study, thoughts failed him, as did his extensive knowledge of bad language.

Originally an Irish dray-man, he rose, by his command of bad language, to almost dictatorial authority in the State.

As the escort disappeared, their pent-up feelings found vent in a few hysterical tears from the Duchess, some bad language from Mother Shipton, and a Parthian volley of expletives from Uncle Billy.

The outer door would not open to our knock, and nothing more substantial than a torrent of bad language came from behind it.

They were horrid places, where men got intoxicated, and shot each other in barrooms, and used bad language.