NOUN
- an offensive or indecent word or phrase
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a word that is considered to be unmentionable
`failure' is a dirty word to him
How To Use dirty word In A Sentence
- Now, we all know, amigos, that that's one of the seven dirty words you can't say on the air.
- CANDY CROWLEY, CNN SENIOR BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT: Well, first of all, we should tell you that here in Ohio, NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement is a dirty word. CNN Transcript Mar 3, 2008
- The above-described problem is quite real among progs, many of whom believe that efforts to get people to become Catholics are "proselytism"—now a dirty word—and are thus immoral. A note on the latest CDF Note
- They were the ones who would proposition me on the street; they were the ones who shouted dirty words at me; they insulted us and claimed that we had participated in orgies and other things that we had never heard of before. Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity
- Personally, I hold to a somewhat optimistic - and rather unfashionable in the present age of clamorous and overassertive Deconstructivism - view that system and structure (and consequently - progress and consolidating knowledge), as far as literary theory is concerned, are not dirty words. Notes Toward a Theory of Narrative Modality
- And the word cock is a halfway dirty word; fifty percent dirty, dirty half the time, depending on what you mean by it. Last Words
- The thing about you punkers is you've made muso a dirty word. MUSIC FOR BOYS
- `failure' is a dirty word to him
- She then explains that she thinks that's a dirty word because obscenity is all in the mind and that word just doesn't sit right with her.
- For the environmentally aware,'disposable'has become a dirty word.