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  • n  profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger

  • Inflation is an economist's swearword; but a lot of other people are for it so far as it seems to mean higher prices for what they have to sell.
  • Secular humanism (a respectable term even though it became a right-wing swearword) stubbornly insisted that morality need not be based on the supernatural.
  • Its pet swearword, which it picked up from Al Frank, was "Oh, Krause!" Its pet salute was what Red Wages described as a Jap salute: both hands, fingers spread.
Quotes

  • Nicolas Sarkozy in The Age
    In 2006, when there is a misunderstanding, you have to make a compromise. There is no shame. It is not a swearword. A real negotiation should take place without preconditions,Sarkozy told Le Parisien.
  • Greg Rusedski in Telegraph.co.uk
    The last time I did that, as we all know, it was a bigger stadium and it didn't work so well,Rusedski said. "This one was OK because I used the word 'friggin' and that is not a swearword."

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