Words similar to four-letter
Example sentences for: four-letter
How can you use “four-letter” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
True, Duck Soup didn't resort to bunches of four-letter words--OK, cannonades of four-letter words--for shock value.
For many, slang and its treatment—however clinical—is taboo, for it is loaded language, not so much with the expected four-letter words (of which there are only a handful) but with racial, religious, and ethnic slurs, which are both derogatory and offensive and are shunned like the plague by liberals.
The four third-grade protagonists--Stan, Kyle the Jew, fat Cartman, and mush-mouthed sacrificial lamb Kenny--sing a Rodgers and Hammerstein-style ode to their "peaceful, redneck, podunk" wintry mountain town (where denizens step over the homeless on their way to church services), and then bluff their way into an R-rated Canadian cartoon called Asses of Fire . That picture stars a crudely drawn, Beavis and Butt-head-type duo called Terrance and Phillip, who entertain each other by spewing four-letter words and passing gas in each other's faces.
Of course, in this example, our two-letter words become four-letter words, which hasn't helped keep things concise.
Critics credit the independence of cable with allowing what broadcast networks won't: four-letter words, grotesque violence, abundant male nudity.