Example sentences for: maledicta

How can you use “maledicta” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It is unlike Dr. Aman to cloak his subject—dirty language—under the euphemism “verbal aggression”: he and most of the authors of the articles appearing in Maledicta let it all hang out; some, however, tuck it away neatly and write under a pseudonym.

  • To quote in part from what may be termed its “statement of purpose,” “ Maledicta specializes in uncensored studies and glossaries of offensive and negatively valued words and expressions, from all languages and cultures, past and present.”

  • It is curious, though, to find so few references in the Bibliography to articles that have appeared in, for instance, Maledicta , the main repository of scatological analysis, and to such articles as Allen Walker Read's “You Know What,” in American Speech (reprinted in VERBATIM II, 3) and Sidney Landau's “ sexual intercourse in American College Dictionaries” [I, 1].

  • Maledicta is instructive, funny, gross, informative, vulgar, impolite, and sometimes well written.

  • Since 1977, Dr. Reinhold Aman has been publishing Maledicta , subtitled The International Journal of Verbal Aggression , from his bivouac in Waukesha, Wisconsin.


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