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Meanings of bad words in English

Russian
похабщина
Portuguese
palavra de baixo calão
Spanish
disparate
Catalan
paraulotes
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Socially offensive form of language.

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      похабщина
      Usage of bad words in English
      1
      He'd been learning the bad words, I gathered, from the other guards.
      Outpost
      2
      It's only de pain of de leg breakin' out in bad words.
      Derrick Sterling: A Story of the Mines
      3
      Jessica ran through all the bad words she knew in her head.
      Neverwhere
      4
      Yet some of the words have spread out, bad words about the dictator.
      A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
      5
      To be fair I haven't heard that many actual bad words.
      The Guardian
      6
      I never thought about its being so dreadfully wicked to say bad words.
      Elsie's New Relations / What They Did and How They Fared at Ion;...
      7
      There is no use trying to deceive me with bad words.
      A Knight of the Nets
      8
      This time it cost Dick a severe struggle to refrain from bad words.
      The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition
      9
      Why is it that so many bad words begin with D or H?
      My Friend the Chauffeur
      10
      Screens! and strings of bad words which gave Awful the giggles.
      Archer’s Goon
      11
      I don't like bad words; they don't go down my windpipe.
      Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
      12
      I don't blame your anger, my poor dear, but don't use bad words.
      The Lost Lady of Lone
      13
      But each of these bad words was returned to him from the rocks above.
      The Investment of Influence: A Study of Social Sympathy and Serv...
      14
      Hattie came up and pummeled Rose for her bad words.
      A Sweet Girl Graduate
      15
      But Mr. Grimes only said bad words; and kept grumbling, My pipe won't draw.
      The Water-Babies
      16
      Even to-day, he can scarcely see any creature without scolding and saying bad words.
      The Magic Speech Flower / or Little Luke and His Animal Friends