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 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 .
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.
He took all of this [expletive] ."
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.
"I think there are very few rational people in this world to whom the word '[expletive]' is particularly diabolical or revolting or totally forbidden."