[
UK
/swˈeəɹɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈswɛɹɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈswɛɹɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
- a commitment to tell the truth (especially in a court of law); to lie under oath is to become subject to prosecution for perjury
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profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger
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How To Use swearing In A Sentence
- Broadcast watchdogs have censured him for swearing on his former BBC Radio 1 afternoon show.
- Calliaud, and by arguments and reasons by him delivered, he was persuaded to unsay his swearing, and to declare that he believed that the affidavit which he made at Patna, and while the transaction was recent or nearly recent, must be a mistake: that he _believed_ (what is amazing indeed for any belief) that not Mr. Hastings, but he himself, interpreted. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 09 (of 12)
- Before the swearing of any of the jurors, 15 the defendant or prosecutor in England and Ireland could challenge the array of jurors compiled by the sheriff.
- In frame 15 the referee warned Holt for ungentlemanly conduct, in this case swearing.
- His swearing, lasciviousness and blackly comedic distortion of the word ‘spastic’ was nothing that most British youths haven't heard or employed themselves.
- The MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley was heckled by a gang of swearing, shell-suited neds.
- Fans will revel in the snappy one-liners, the latex effects, the swearing and what sci-figeeks everywhere will be calling 'intertextuality'. Times, Sunday Times
- The driver was cursing and swearing, but his fury stopped short of him actually getting out of the car.
- I can foresee a long cult career for Andrew W.K., devoted acolytes swearing he is the best thing ever, and everybody else ignoring him because they don't know how to do anything else.
- By the end of the night we were swearing undying love for each other.