Words similar to expletive
Example sentences for: expletive
How can you use “expletive” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
To be sure, I've been known to use that particular Anglo-Saxon expletive myself, and with great verve, too; but to encounter it in the pages of Slate was just too much.
And Visage, Expletive, and Articulate used to grow wild.
To illustrate the expletive use of the word damn , for instance, H.C. Wyld's Universal Dictionary of the English Language [George Routledge and Sons, 1932] prints the phrase damn this dictionary .
"Let's see if we can bring this damn thing back here next year," he said, "along with the [expletive] Super Bowl."
I'm not sure there is an easy way to convey to anybody under 30, for example, the sheer emotive force that the word "[expletive]" possessed in the urban childhood culture of 40 years ago.