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Fine ... a word that you said when someone asked how you were but didn't really care to know the truth.
It's the intent, not the word, that makes something harsh.
Never underestimate the role pretension plays when it comes to creating euphemistic language.
Beware of men who use words that relate pejoratively to females when describing the 'other side.
Don't hate the word, playa; hate the dictionary.
There's a difference between using the word to insult somebody and using it to start a journalistic conversation.
an incantation of hatred.
The GP appeared in its typical V formation. "Goose on the lawn," Luc said. "Goose?" I asked. "That V formation. I like to use derogatory terms to describe the GP whenever possible.
Always remember that you have been called worse things by better people.
Controversial daily radio host. Considered to be engaging in unacceptable behaviour by seeking to provoke others to serious criminal acts and fostering hatred which might lead to inter-community violence.
As a society, we pick words that are offensive based on what we're most afraid of. We associate sounds with some dangerous idea, and right now the most dangerous thing to us are the differences between us.
The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.
One of those middle-aged mediocrities so common in London clubs who have no enemies, but are thoroughly disliked by their friends;
Slander is poison to the soul.
Silly words, silly words, silly awful hurting words.
Epithet, n.
I think the worst you ever called me was a "cunt rag."
"You mean I'm a tampon?" I asked. "I'm a tampon for not letting you drive?"
I laughed. You didn't. At least, not until you sobered up.
Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.
A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
I'm a libertarian. It's a terrible word.
There will be a moment in life, whether you're forceful or not, where someone will label you something that is negative.
Negative words are powerful boomerangs so be careful what you say about people and yourself.
Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.
Why should some foul word-slinging curb my ambitions?
Somebody called me a homophobe. I'm not homophobic.
I have been called 'Bongshell' the day I stepped into showbiz. So, any adjective coming my way, I take it positively. Sometimes it's also entertaining, but I don't feel bad about it. I'm a proud woman.
Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain.
I've never been a fan of euphemism.
All my adult life I have been searching for the right adjective to describe my father's peculiarly aggressive comic style. I recently settled on 'defamatory.'
Epithets are not arguments. Abuse does not persuade.
Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.
Correct English is the slang of prigs ...
Foolish, whenever you take the meanness and formality of that thing you do, instead of converting it into the obedient spiracle ofyour character and aims.
Tharn. It was a good word for a bad state of mind.
The lack of imagination or invention most people display in naming pussies is almost beyond credence.
Underhand euphemism are used, not so much to conceal offence and to deliberately disguise a topic and deceive
Every word is a prejudice.
It's better to use a curse word than to hurt somebody else, I find.
The question is, what are appropriate words and inappropriate words for network television, and what's the context? Was this appropriate in this context? Or are you creatively trying to find a way to use that word on the air?
Defamation; is an act of impiety.
There is no such thing as a dirty word. Nor is there a word so powerful, that it's going to send the listener to the lake of fire upon hearing it.
Abuse is the weapon of the vulgar.
Nicknames are potent ways of cutting people down to size.
Contempt for the degradation of specialization and pedantry. Specialization develops only part of a man; a man partially developed is deformed.
All labels are offensive in some way.
All words are prejudices.
I'm not politically correct.
A paedophile is someone whose sexual attraction towards children their own age did not grow with them.
I am unfortunate in using a word which may convey a meaning - and evidently does - quite opposite to my intention.
Euphemisms are for the differently brained.
contemptuous cough
TRUTHFUL, adj. Dumb and illiterate.
Don't try to defile the English language. I can think of a few other things I'd rather dirty up.
Language pedants hew to an oral tradition of shibboleths that have no basis in logic or style, that have been defied by great writers for centuries, and that have been disavowed by every thoughtful usage manual.
I'm a vocabulary nerd.
Pedantry. The delight in living. Brio. The chance to act, to mime, to mock, to mimic.
My favorite word is 'pumpkin.' You can't take it seriously. But you can't ignore it, either. It takes ahold of your head and that's it. You are a pumpkin. Or you are not. I am.
Pay no attention to toxic words. What people say is often a reflection of themselves, not you.
Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
To insult someone we call him 'bestial'. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
It is a shameful thing to insult a child.
Words can be terrible when the truth is unwelcome.
Political correctness is bad.
A contemptible person, but ready to face suffering!
I ask you, why is it so hard to stay away from the euphemisms? They creep in, always, and attempt to make the difficult things more pleasing.
the one Word that rips apart the day...
Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
A deistical prater, fit to sit in the chimney-corner of a pot-house, and make blasphemous comments on the one greasy newspaper fingered by beer-swilling tinkers.
An insult bestowed on your interior and exterior personality; for causes beyond control, kills you innumerably, till the last breath.
He who does not like you will defame you in jest.
Nothing has more retarded the advancement of learning than the disposition of vulgar minds to ridicule and vilify what they cannot comprehend.
Be respectful of words. They mean something.
He is deformed, crooked, old and sere, Ill-faced, worse bodied, shapeless everywhere; Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind; Stigmatical in making, worse in mind.
Living in Brooklyn it's a very fend-for-yourself place. Maybe it's made me a little bit harsh but I don't consider that to be pejorative.
A man who insults the modesty of a woman, as good as tells her that he has seen something in her conduct that warranted his presumption.
I feel no grief for being called something
which
I am not;
in fact, it's enthralling, somehow, like a good
back rub
I'm being unjustly maligned!
Baby, it's never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows how poor that person is, it doesn't hurt you. So don't let Mrs Dubose get you down. She had enough troubles or her own.
We say "misogynist"; I've written that "misogyny kills," but the world falls flat on your tongue - it's too academic sounding, not raw or horrifying enough to relay the truth of what it means.
Unhappily the habit of being offensive 'without meaning it' leads usually to a way of making amends which the injured person cannot but regard as a being amiable without meaning it.
Bad terminology is the enemy of good thinking.
Deplorable, a rancid smelling aphrodisiac ... It fosters almost totally negative and destructive reactions in young people.
For hostile word let hostile word be paid.
If you're going to yell at me, do it in English, please. I'd like to understand the insult so I can frame an appropriately pithy response.
misbegotten cockwaffle.
Just another four-letter word.
Nice is the worst word.
Pig! Pig! Daughter of Pigs! she said, because to call a native a pig is the worst insult of all.
It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.
If I'm gonna get my balls blown off for a word, my word is poontang.
Ridicule, nominally amusing but really an expression of hostility, was the favourite weapon - the worst possible, short of actual cruelty, in dealing with young people.
When you catch an adjective, kill it.
frugivorous also.
A man who despises himself so much that the only way he can alleviate his feelings of inferiority is by stomping down his wife's personality with a daily stream of nasty jibes.
If. It's the worst word in the world.
Child. That was a terrible thing to say to anyone who was almost thirteen.
My favorite uncle was gay," she says, "and he doesn't like to dance, either." She looks at Chad. "I don't like that word. Fag. Don't use it, okay?
Wretched are those preoccupied with insulting, belittling and discrediting others.
Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.
HATRED, n. A sentiment appropriate to the occasion of another's superiority.
Cunt-lapping, mother-fucking, and cock-sucking are words to provoke a sense of outrage. Being forced to play the role of a woman in sexual intercourse is the deepest imaginable humiliation, which is only worsened if the victim finds to his horror that he enjoys it.