Sentence example with the word 'expletive'

expletive

battology, dirty word, epithet, filling, iterative, oath, pleonasm, reiterative, superfluousness, to spare, wordy

Definition n. profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger

Last update: July 30, 2015


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'I swear'is an expletive.   [Please select]

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Then, suddenly, a gesture, an expletive, would betray the Frenchman.   [Please select]

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"You are not," replied the captain, with an echoing expletive.   [Please select]

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Better split with him at once," said the guest who had used the expletive."   [Please select]

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The final expletive was totally unnecessary, but it meant a thing he did not say.   [Please select]

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"The lever," he added with a patient expletive, "broke."   [Please select]

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_" not knowing as yet any worse expletive, and burst into a roar of laughter."   [Please select]

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The little man burst out in a forceful expletive.   [Please select]

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When Italian meets Italian, then comes the tug of expletive.   [Please select]

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He even allowed an expletive to escape from his lips.   [Please select]

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That bitter dry expletive, coughed out between set teeth, could not be named a laugh.   [Please select]

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