obscenities

FIFA aim to hammer any players who dish out verbals to World Cup whistlers and all officials are well versed in English obscenities to ensure they understand whatever flak is flying their way.

The Daily Record - Home 2010

The versifier notes, It’s much easier to make a line scan when you can just throw in obscenities wherever you want.

Kipling and Blago and Barry 2008

But what do you call obscenities, if Ariosto is not obscene?”

The memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt 1827

M. O'BRIEN: Well he was quoted today as saying he was trying to discourage a lot of obscenities, which is interesting.

CNN Transcript Jan 9, 2006 2006

But what do you call obscenities, if Ariosto is not obscene? "

Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 22: to London Giacomo Casanova 1761

But what do you call obscenities, if Ariosto is not obscene? "

The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Giacomo Casanova 1761

These Indians were polygamists, but much of what the missionaries and others have called their obscenities and vile conversations, were the simple and unconscious utterances of men and women whose instincts were not perverted.

The Old Franciscan Missions Of California George Wharton James 1890

And the idea that writing is weakened by 'obscenities' has never made much sense to me.

zut alors 2009

Maybe they were having trouble with commenters using minced oaths like “We’re going to kick your glasses!” and they decided to remove even within-word obscenities to foil them.

Incomprehensible censorship « Motivated Grammar 2010

Maybe they were having trouble with commenters using minced oaths like “We’re going to kick your glasses!” and they decided to remove even within-word obscenities to foil them.

2010 July « Motivated Grammar 2010