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expletive::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | utterance, vocalization |
Examples of expletive
expletive
Much ado was made over the expletive stenciled on the nail of her middle finger.
From the cnn.com
No, the man said, give or take an expletive, I do not want your Subway sandwich.
From the nytimes.com
She likes profanity, especially one particular expletive, in all its variations.
From the washingtonpost.com
In an expletive-filled tirade, the slugger said there were still 160 games left.
From the heraldtribune.com
He used an expletive in his acceptance speech that was bleeped on the telecast.
From the orlandosentinel.com
Staring at the offending ball after it left his club, Woods shouted an expletive.
From the denverpost.com
One week later, Jack White might have slipped another expletive by the censors.
From the orlandosentinel.com
In one of those conversations, the owner used an expletive to refer to the critic.
From the timesunion.com
After Fryer hit Kidd with a technical foul, he screamed the same expletive louder.
From the usatoday.com
- Curse: profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger; "expletives were deleted"
- A word or phrase conveying no independent meaning but added to fill out a sentence or metrical line
- The word expletive is currently used in three senses: syntactic expletives, expletive attributives, and "bad language".
- A profane, vulgar term, notably a curse or obscene oath; A word without meaning added to fill a syntactic position; A word that adds to the strength of a phrase without affecting its meaning; Serving to fill up, merely for effect, otherwise redundant; Marked by expletives (phrase-fillers)
- (expletives) mou, che, chikuso, kuso, shimatta (all meaning damn, shit, crap, etc.)
- A syllable, word, or phrase that serves to fill out a sentence or a line of verse, without conveying any meaning of its own (eg: There is an antelope herd that is running across the plain. = An antelope herd is running across the plain.); see forced line, compare truncation. ...
- 'There is a cat sitting on the mat'; 'Alas, a cat sat on the mat.'
- (both exclamatory and grammatical)
