How To Use Swearing In A Sentence
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Broadcast watchdogs have censured him for swearing on his former BBC Radio 1 afternoon show.
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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)
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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.
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In frame 15 the referee warned Holt for ungentlemanly conduct, in this case swearing.
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His swearing, lasciviousness and blackly comedic distortion of the word ‘spastic’ was nothing that most British youths haven't heard or employed themselves.
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The MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley was heckled by a gang of swearing, shell-suited neds.
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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
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The driver was cursing and swearing, but his fury stopped short of him actually getting out of the car.
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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.
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By the end of the night we were swearing undying love for each other.
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Dent started to walk away, but was arrested after swearing at police. He had already been fined for two other drunken episodes in April.
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The reason is that Chavez cannot tolerate that the spotlight is taken away from him and when that happens he always burps something out that is sure to send the country into a newer chaotic spasm since Chavez underlings are unable to discern what is a mere dissimulated form of swearing and what might be actually a state policy.
Lapi, Chavez and private health care
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The cardinals on Tuesday filed into the chapel, chanting a Latin hymn to ask for divine guidance and swearing a solemn oath never to reveal the secrets of their deliberations on pain of excommunication.
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I only wish only just got “brain freezes” because I’m so sick of afib that I’m not swearing off ice cream as a treat — at least that’s the plan.
Dr. Blog « BuzzMachine
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After all, I was merely forswearing a bad habit, forgoing a bad frame of mind.
Chapter 30
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The crowd of periwigged heads at the windows — the swearing chairmen round the steps (the blazoned and coronalled panels of whose vehicles denote the lofty rank of their owners), — the throng of embroidered beaux entering or departing, and rendering the air fragrant with the odors of pulvillio and pomander, proclaim the celebrated resort of
Burlesques
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Because as soon as you step in, you become aware of a huge sea of noise stretching away before you: whispers, murmurs, bangs, shouts, swearing, poems, confessions, exhortations.
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I just lost it completely, cursing and swearing, but most of my comments were bleeped out.
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And how many men staggered out of Fatal Attraction swearing they'd never dare flirt with a woman again?
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After that comment, sure enough her sister conjured up the same lecture about swearing to Blair, Blair was just a bit put down when she couldn't walk away from this incessant jabber of her sister's idea on etiquette.
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In April he was fined after swearing at a match official.
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And so it came to pass that daily thereafter did we practise for an hour or so in the armoury with sword and buckler, and with every lesson my proficiency with the iron grew in a manner that Falcone termed prodigious, swearing that I was born to the sword, that the knack of it was in the very blood of me.
The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza
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This is the same Senate that Blagojevich took part in swearing in today.
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She hasn't worked out that gratuitous swearing doesn't make you cool.
Times, Sunday Times
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One of the big differences is that in Colombian usage most swearing uses contractions, or slurred pronunciation.
Humani nihil a me alienum puto « Unknowing
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Your inner Jack Nicholson pounds around in circles in your head, swearing and shuddering, decrying your overuse of the word snagged and your repetitive and/or awkward sentence structure.
Where I work...
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Swearing-in of new President On Nov. 1 Kaunda conceded defeat after about a third of the results had been publicly declared.
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But the noise of sailors swearing, pigs squealing, chickens squawking, children bawling and fathers threatening them with the backs of their hands brought them back to reality with a thump.
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Within a few months of his swearing the oath that he was to break in so many ways, the President receded from both these pledges.
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Butter "(for my lady, like her Majesty the Queen, was somewhat given to swearing, though more modest oaths, as should become a subject) --" I 'fecks, Butter, "saith she," 'tis a most lustick plot.
A Brother To Dragons and Other Old-time Tales
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I can't help laughing at a pimp who is swearing by the curb, wiping dog poo off his pointed boot into the gutter.
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Leading by example, the United States announced a review of its nuclear posture - forswearing the use of nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states, so long as they are in compliance with the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Jim Luce: Ground-Breaking Speech by Ban Ki-moon on Eve of NPT Review
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Though women are swearing more today than before, it is still regarded by many as "unfeminine".
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The show culminated with Rivers swearing at Nielsen unleashing a torrent of Italian curses.
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If you ask people to stop swearing or blaspheming, some people will silently respect you while others will go out of their way to turn the air blue.
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We were both thrilled by the use of swearing, which seemed both judicious and reckless at the same time.
Times, Sunday Times
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I watched as the militias picked out their victims, swearing at them, insulting their mothers and hurling sectarian insults.
Times, Sunday Times
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I get offended, and upset, by children running around, out of control, by their mothers shouting at them, smacking them or swearing at them, should I call for a ban on that too?
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But the main problem is noise nuisance from large gatherings of youths, with some shouting abuse at passers-by or swearing at them.
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A former fêtarde* myself and still a bit featherbrained from it I shake my head and cluck my tongue on hearing those birds, beaks-a-begging, try to get out of jail time by pleading with the French cops, swearing that they are merely scatterbrained and not at all soûlard!
étourneau - French Word-A-Day
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Like other peoples of the Mediterranean region, Damascenes favored a relatively dramatic style of self-presentation which made plenty of allowance for swearing and other flamboyant forms of expression.
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Yet it is worth noting that, by forswearing future acquisitions of recently looted work, as the Getty did under Ms. True's leadership, the museum actually did what no other major acquiring museum would do for many years.
The Beautiful and the True
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He was a very vulnerable hard-swearing, full-blooded agnostic, or possibly an atheist.
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Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting.
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There is an almost endless stream of Con loving chunder heads with their hackles all raised, swearing up and down that this is desperation.
Archive 2008-04-01
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Don't accept him swearing but make sure you and your fiancé spend time with him each week so there's no risk he feels pushed out.
The Sun
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I admit that we've got a parking lot full of (employee) cars, and therefore it may appear to the casual glancer that this is still an establishment dedicated to the pursuit of wearing ugly pants while swearing at nubby white balls.
March 11th, 2005
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They were shouting and swearing at the officer.
Times, Sunday Times
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They were shouting and swearing at the officer.
Times, Sunday Times
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There's swearing and sweaty closeups, offset with tender optimism by an exciting comic presence.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nowhere is the mention that Senator Levin "cursed" (as the headline said) or did any swearing.
Levin swears repeatedly at Goldman hearing
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Why isn't one signature and swearing a blood oath good enough?
Times, Sunday Times
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I told him; and all his anger turned to laughter, swearing it did him good to haue ill words of a hoddy doddy {21: 29}, a habber de hoy {21: 30}, a chicken, a squib, a squall {21: 30}, one that hath not wit enough to make a ballet, that, by
Kemps Nine Daies Wonder Performed in a Daunce from London to Norwich
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The collocation of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and the swearing in of the country's first black president has occasioned much discourse on the state of race relations in the U.S., most of it somehow centered around whether we're in a "post-racial" society or not.
Archive 2009-01-01
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Twenty British officers hunted up and down for the places supposed to have been reserved for them, and sweating servants hurried after them with arms full of heterogeneous baggage, swearing at the crowd that swore back ungrudgingly.
In The Time Of Light
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By forswearing himself and violating his oath, he has undermined respect for the integrity of oaths.
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The headline-grabbing story focuses on his concerns about drug-taking, joyriding, swearing and a host of other antisocial teenage activities.
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Four-year-old macaw Sid can miaow like a cat, bark like a dog and laugh like a drain… but maybe it was the swearing like a trooper that got him in a spot of bother.
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But he could have given a statement to the court without swearing an oath, an option not pursued by his inexperienced lawyer.
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Why isn't one signature and swearing a blood oath good enough?
Times, Sunday Times
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Every gapper-mouth zany grinning at me, and scoundrels swearing that I get my share!
Mary Anerley
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She claimed footballers were contributing to pupils swearing and answering back in class as they copy what happens on the football pitch.
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He burst into tears, begging her to forgive him and swearing to pay back everything he had stolen.
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As someone who speaks fluent Spanish, I found myself swearing in Spanish when my people got cantankerous.
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We could hear him cursing and swearing as he tried to get the door open.
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But my abso-bloody-lutely favourite way of swearing is to use bastardised tmesis - the splitting up of a compound word into parts, and then slotting a rude word in the middle.
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The KLF didn't just walk away from fame, they had a blazing row with it and then stormed out of the house swearing all kinds of revenge.
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As, for proof, now: a purse of gold most resolutely snatched on Monday night and most dissolutely spent on Tuesday morning; got with swearing “Lay by” and spent with crying “Bring in;” now in as low an ebb as the foot of the ladder and by and by in as high a flow as the ridge of the gallows.
The first part of King Henry the Fourth
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At his swearing-in ceremony, the state's senior senator refused to accompany his new colleague to the podium.
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For a few moments the couple find themselves in church or in the registry office watched by their closest family and friends, publicly swearing what amounts to a solemn oath of allegiance to each other.
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And, if I’m not mistaken, the person doing the swearing is called the “jurant”.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Jurat
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But there is also a sense of irrepressible fun, particularly in the lengthy, inventive and colourful swearing.
The Sun
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But he hates bad language and he can't stand people swearing at him.
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The Feudal System: 3. vassalage: warriors (knights) swearing an oath to their lord land itself was called the "fief":
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Don't accept him swearing but make sure you and your fiancé spend time with him each week so there's no risk he feels pushed out.
The Sun
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There was a lot of swearing and shouting.
The Sun
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A friend of mine has gone for an ascetic existence, having denounced the demon drink, and even resolved to stop swearing.
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A frustrated Ord was then ordered to leave the visitors' dugout and squirted the referee with a water bottle before swearing at young supporters on his way to the changing-room.
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A haulage company is on trial to drastically cut the din of revving engines and fork-lift trucks, the blare of lorry cab radios and the shouting and swearing of some staff.
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Jests against religion, sneers at the piety of the godly, irreverent and shocking swearing, and a boastful parade of the immoralities they have committed make up the conversation, I fear, of some circles.
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The violence and casual misogyny are shocking; the swearing is constant.
Times, Sunday Times
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The blood, guts and swearing is not what a lot of his fans will expect.
The Sun
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Thanks to television, swearing and coarseness have become far more commonplace in our lives.
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There's swearing and sweaty closeups, offset with tender optimism by an exciting comic presence.
Times, Sunday Times
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Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting.
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This is beastly stuff of the doctor's, Chris, it puts my monkey up; I can't help swearing after I've taken it; it's as beastly as a vulgar woman's laugh, and I don't know anything beastlier than that!
Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works
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The harsh screaming coming from Mrs. Ling’s apartment had dwindled to pleas for help in English, peppered with swearing in Mandarin.
A Dirty Job HTML
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You can usually hear him swearing and smell the cigar smoke before he approaches.
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Their farcical swearing-in ceremonies stating their dedication to the Fiji people are worthy of nightclub comedy sketches.
Global Voices in English » Fiji: Court rules military government illegal
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Regardless of how reserved or proper they may have been before the stroke, their limited language is sometimes dominated by swearing.
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I began crying and swearing and socking myself on the head for being such a damn fool.
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I watched as the militias picked out their victims, swearing at them, insulting their mothers and hurling sectarian insults.
Times, Sunday Times
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This year he upset families in a London restaurant by turning up with an entourage for a burger meal, swearing and again refusing to acknowledge fans.
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She wrapped a towel around her and ran to the sitting-room, swearing under her breath.
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After three days of walking or bussing to the station, though, I'm almost looking forward to fighting my way through the traffic and the swearing drivers tomorrow morning.
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To him even did I tell my family name, and the shame I had saved it from by forswearing it.
CHAPTER XIII
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Then he would hastily take down his ascensionist outfit and, swearing at himself, put it on.
Tartarin On The Alps
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There was a lot of swearing and shouting.
The Sun
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The tail-gunner was mortally wounded, but the captain refused to bail out - swearing that the two of them would land the plane together.
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When the alarm went off at eight o'clock much swearing occurred.
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He tried to cry off after swearing he would do it!
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She had a good seat at the President's swearing-in ceremony.
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Usually after they heard Ricky cussing and swearing, they would think that they would just having another argument.
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We could hear him cursing and swearing as he tried to get the door open.
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He waited sometime before he was answered, repeating his summons violently at frequent intervals, and swearing irreligiously under his breath as he did so.
Thelma
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In this room he had often outwatched the night, chewing the cud of his wrongs, invoking vengeance upon the thwarter of his hopes, and swearing through his teeth to even the balance between them.
Idolatry A Romance
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Last week's session ended up in mayhem, with deputies expelled and the rest hurling insults and swearing at each other.
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Kevin bowed his curtest bow and stormed off, swearing under his breath.
The Chaos Gate
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I am given to understand that he was swearing throughout the game at our fans.
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Not even the swearing-in of a new chief minister would have received such media attention.
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Instead, Treasury is trying to negotiate bailouts bank by bank, and behaving as if the banks hold all the cards — contorting the terms of each deal to minimize government ownership while forswearing government influence over bank strategy or operations.
The Quiet Coup
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Get your hormones under control and remember that all the anger you are pointing at your fellow posters is about as productive as swearing at yourself in the mirror.
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Today's manor houses may not be homes to a lord, and neighbours may not be swearing allegiance in return for protection.
Times, Sunday Times
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A former fêtarde* myself (and still a bit featherbrained from it) I shake my head and cluck my tongue on hearing those birds, beaks-a-begging, try to get out of jail time by pleading with the French cops, swearing that they are merely scatterbrained and not at all soûlard!
French Word-A-Day:
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The big giveaway: there is no swearing in it.
Times, Sunday Times
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I traversed a pinnacle, swearing and pleading, and came upon a spindly tree that was blowing smoke from the end of each branch.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was talking very loudly and swearing a lot, and revealing just how much of a nerd he really is, despite his schmick clothes.
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Don't accept him swearing but make sure you and your fiancé spend time with him each week so there's no risk he feels pushed out.
The Sun
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In this case, an information failed to include in the jurat the date of swearing, and the place of swearing was changed without being initialed.
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I don't think there's an audience for gratuitous blasphemy or for gratuitous swearing - because it's boring.
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He started swearing at me at top volume and I changed directions and hightailed it down 3rd St. toward home.
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You should have seen the tantrum I threw, banging the floor with my fist and swearing.
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She had a strong regal bearing and her kneeling on the floor seemed as improper as a priest swearing.
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December 19th, 2008 at 3: 48 am uhh, yall know that rev. joseph lowery, of the african american church, and who SUPPORTS GAY MARRIAGE, will be delivering the benediction after the swearing in right? this is a throwing a little line to the younger evangelicals that like warren stuff, but still keeping one of his earliest supporters (rev lowery) have an equally big spot.
Matthew Yglesias » The Warren Factor
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What about all the shouting and swearing?
The Sun
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The very tangible result: industry rumor has it that a couple of years back, a major publishing house required a writer who spent a significant amount of time living with cloistered nuns to obtained signed releases from each and every one of the wimpled ones, swearing that they would not sue the publisher over the book.
Author! Author! » Blog Archive » Pitching 101, part III: blind trust and why it has no place in the pitching or querying processes
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It cuts against the grain to be having aught to do with such unchancy things, but if Tomanâk is after being a good enough captain for you to be swearing loyalty to, then that's good enough for me.
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A year ago I first caught him swearing in Russian about it.
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His swearing has become a bit overplayed.
Times, Sunday Times
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The magistrates found Baldwin guilty of the charge of causing criminal damage, but dismissed the public order offence of swearing and spitting because of insufficient evidence.
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I have to admit I am a bit of a priss when it comes to swearing and profanities.
Writing Rules « Write Anything
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A third way could be that followed by my sensible dad who was a keen non-swearing cyclist, swimmer and drinker of dandelion and burdock.
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I went to bathe and a bit of hair fell out, and last night we called the barber, Chávez told politicians during a swearing-in ceremony for new cabinet ministers.
Hugo Chávez shows off new haircut
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Perhaps, Madam Interpreter, rather than affirming or swearing you, it may be sufficient for the moment if you would explain to the applicant that I propose to send the case of him and his wife to the Federal Court.
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Brought up in an environment where casual violence (domestic and otherwise), swearing and law-breaking is just part of life?
How Did It Come To This? « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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No muss, no fuss, and no swearing at my sewing machine while I try to figure out what I'm doing, and then cursing at my complete inability to sew a straight line.
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What I have in Kim is one of those cute little women with a swishy ponytail who cuts people off in traffic while swearing like a Marine.
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A debtor swearing an affidavit that he had resigned his all would not wipe away the claim his creditor had on him.
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Why isn't one signature and swearing a blood oath good enough?
Times, Sunday Times
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We were not moping around or swearing out there, we got on with the job.
Times, Sunday Times
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In pop music swearing is now ubiquitous.
The Sun
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I am given to understand that he was swearing throughout the game at our fans.
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Darcy got up quickly swearing softly beneath his breath.
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Her heel slipped on some mud and she lost her balance, swearing as an arm wrapped around her waist, preventing her from hitting the ground.
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They were shouting and swearing at the officer.
Times, Sunday Times
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“What the deil, man — I crave your lordship’s pardon for swearing — but it was no cathedral — only a lurking-place called the king’s lugg, or ear, where he could sit undescried, and hear the converse of his prisoners.
The Fortunes of Nigel
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She breached the order three times by swearing, screaming and using abusive language after a road accident.
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Sir Jonathan Trelawny, Bishop of Winchester, used to ‘excuse himself for his much swearing by saying he swore as a baronet, and not as a bishop’!
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There was a lot of swearing and shouting.
The Sun
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He tried to take advantage of Henry's religious imbroglio and retake Northumbria, but was captured at Alnwick and only got out of a dungeon in Norman Falaise by swearing fealty.
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He twisted the letter up into a ball and threw it into the fire, swearing softly.
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Top Gear lies in Clarkson's apparently untrammelled political incorrectness, which is as much part of his schtick as Gordon Ramsay's swearing, Graham Norton's outrageousness, or
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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His reasoning on wages, even without the nonsense about education and swearing, is less sound, riddled as it is with dubious comparative references to other people's earnings.
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It was also delightful to hear the out of shape slobs swearing at and criticising the highly fit athletes on the pitch.
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All i overhear is ‘now stop swearing’, ‘theres no need to shout abuse down the phone’, ‘if you continue to scream obscenities I will terminate the call’ … etc etc..
Another Day At The Office « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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Zinoviev, on the contrary, demanded an immediate signing of the peace, forswearing the propagandist possibilities of Brest Litovsk.
My Life
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Christopher will be back swearing, pimping, robbing convenience stores and peddling drugs within days.
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This possibly disappoints those who recall her goading Tony Abbott into swearing at the last pre-election clash.
AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories
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Swearing is rooted in the discourse of mortality.
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Today's manor houses may not be homes to a lord, and neighbours may not be swearing allegiance in return for protection.
Times, Sunday Times
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Given the slightest encouragement, he'd be on his knees swearing eternal devotion.
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I would like to whizz down but I keep getting my hair caught so I have to stop, swearing as I disentangle it.
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Speaking after yesterday's swearing-in of the deputy prime minister and cabinet minister, he reiterated government's intention to address urgent issues.
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He was extremely drunk and swearing like a trooper.
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Anecdotally we found no supporting evidence in the literature, some pain theorists view swearing as a sign of ‘pain-related catastrophising’, which may be defined as a maladaptive response in which negative and unhelpful thoughts and ideas are brought to bear when pain is experienced.
Oh $#*%! Cursing can reduce pain perception
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We have become almost immune to swearing.
The Sun
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I watched as the militias picked out their victims, swearing at them, insulting their mothers and hurling sectarian insults.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then we branch off into a small passage to begin our mixture of scrambling, climbing, stooping, crawling and swearing through the Mendip limestone.
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But the shouting and swearing were only one side of her.
Times, Sunday Times
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Even the trivial matter of the wearing of the songkok during the swearing-in ceremony became a hot issue and almost brought the coalition down before it could even be formed.
Zorro-unmasked
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I get offended, and upset, by children running around, out of control, by their mothers shouting at them, smacking them or swearing at them, should I call for a ban on that too?
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Ahem, it is in fact naive to expect graciousness from the swearing, spitting, frothing HA crowd.
Sound Politics: The Netroots...(Sigh)
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His swearing has become a bit overplayed.
Times, Sunday Times
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Returning to the original discussion by Gail Armstrong, namely - history of swearing, and to the subtopic "The Atlantic - the great divide", in the article at BBC GA links to I came across this interesting bit: ...'pratt' being an old word for 'arse' that has come to lose its meaning over the years.
Languagehat.com: BUNYIP.
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The crowd of periwigged heads at the windows — the swearing chairmen round the steps (the blazoned and coronalled panels of whose vehicles denote the lofty rank of their owners), — the throng of embroidered beaux entering or departing, and rendering the air fragrant with the odors of pulvillio and pomander, proclaim the celebrated resort of
Burlesques
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Moments later, he was in the back of a stretch limo with two young women to demonstrate that 18th - century London was a whirl of binge drinking, swearing and canoodling.
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Swearing at/in front of kids is definitely different from what I'm used to -- even as a foul-mouthed college kid I watched my language around kids I did slip up once while babysitting, however, saying "dang" in front of a promptly-horrified 5-year-old, who was mollified by my immediate pact with him promising that neither of us would ever swear again. :p
OK, I get it.
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Not only has the show reached its 15th anniversary but tonight also brings the return of the annual jamboree Hollyoaks Later, during which Hollyoaks gets to pretend it is Skins: showing flesh, gleefully swearing and generally revelling in the bacchanalian Arcadia that is post-watershed E4.
The post-watershed wonder of Hollyoaks Later is worth celebrating
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What worries me at the core, I think, is the idea that a moral dicta imposed around “rape”, proscribing its “casual” use as vulgar, rendering it an act of moral transgression to speak this word flippantly, while it might serve to affirm the gravity of the crime, might at the same time, for that very reason, prime that word for exaptation into the realm of swearing proper.
On Profanity: 4
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Nowadays, an unmarried father may become joint guardian of his children by swearing a statutory declaration.
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And by that suit of law poor Tom was ruined altogether, for Sir Robert could pay for much swearing; and then all his goods and his farm were sold up, and even his smithery taken.
Lorna Doone
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In fact, my most useful contribution was stopping Ian from swearing when he stubbed his toe in the vestry.
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The swearing of an untrue affidavit of documents is perhaps the most obvious example of conduct which his solicitor cannot knowingly permit.
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The big giveaway: there is no swearing in it.
Times, Sunday Times
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The group demanded that: "truly independent electoral body in appointment, operation and funding as well as credible voters 'register in which all Nigerians at voting age are registered, establishment of electoral offences Commission which will handle all the electoral impunities, and that all elections petitions be concluded before swearing in of victorious candidates," the group suggested.
Thisday Online
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Crunchy Frog says: libarbarian: I suppose this attitude explains why Conservatives react to the adoption of their ideas by liberals not by saying “thanks for coming around” but rather by abandoning and forswearing their own previous ideas.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Jonathan Rauch on David Frum on the Conservative Movement
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We are not swearing allegiance to an introverted, self serving club but declaring our intentions to help those who place themselves in our care and the community at large.
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Swearing is now pretty rare (I swear to God!), though it used to be more common (in Falstaffian oaths such as ’Sblood! — “by God’s blood” — or Zounds! — “by God’s wounds”).
Letters to the Editor
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But the key words in understanding swearing, as opposed to coarse language or mere profanity, are taboo and shock.
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This sounds more like a wake than a new deal administration, except for the party-time swearing-in festivities that do absolutely nothing to change the stratus-quo. —
Pelosi Cites Tough Challenges Ahead - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
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And we don't mean a John-Roberts-word-fumbling not swearing in, we mean a full-fledged non-codification of their membership in the 112th Congress.
HUFFPOST HILL - I Do Solemnly Swear That I Will Support And Def--Hey Are Those Crab Puffs?
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They were swearing at me as I laid on the floor, with very bad words.
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"The development program in the city will stagnate if the people continue to oppose the new city leadership," he said during the swearing-in ceremony.
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Likewise if we do give a yobbo a thick ear for (say) dropping litter, swearing at an old lady, kicking a cat or any of the other minor but spiteful misdeeds with which they fill their unrewarding little lives, they are the first to call the police and (as Gadget has observed before) demand that the police “do [us] for assult or somefink”.
My Kingdom For A 4X4 With Suitable Tyres! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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It's a subject that makes my blood boil and disappointments have left me a blister short of swearing.
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Except they were so loud we couldn't hear Pink Floyd and various people started swearing and cussing.
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I let you 'chaunt', as you call it, to keep you from swearing.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
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You should have seen the look of shock on her face when he started swearing!
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He burst into tears, begging her to forgive him and swearing to pay back everything he had stolen.
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Why isn't one signature and swearing a blood oath good enough?
Times, Sunday Times
