Definition of "swearword" []

• An obscene or blasphemous word. (noun)

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• "Random House Children’s Books has agreed to remove a four-letter swearword from a popular book by Dame Jacqueline Wilson after complaints from Anne Dixon, who insists she is standing up for values of common decency."
• "And without emotion, all that is left of a swearword is the word itself, unlikely to soothe anyone's pain."
• ""Hope" has of late become a kind of swearword for conservatives, so Daniels might have seemed to be winding up for a jab at Obama."