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Example sentences for: four-letter

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Vulgar , which really means no more than `unrefined,' is rarely encountered in modern dictionaries as a label because people have taken to designating four-letter words as vulgar, illustrating the semantic process known as pejoration `depreciation,' the opposite of melioration . Today we should probably consider labeling Great!
Critics credit the independence of cable with allowing what broadcast networks won't: four-letter words, grotesque violence, abundant male nudity.
Consider how long it took lexicographers to include four-letter words in their dictionaries; yet we know from long experience with spoken English that a researcher five hundred years hence would be wrong to conclude that those terms were invented or even came into general use at the end of the 20th century.
Thus, when uttered by an actor whose thumb has just been struck by a hammer or who has suffered some frustration or other outrage, any of several four-letter words seem as natural as in real life.
One example, not the author's fault, is the comment, “The editors of the Random House Dictionary of 1966 decided, after considerable agonizing, not to insert any four-letter words.”