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bad words

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Bad words are terms considered rude, offensive, or inappropriate in polite settings. They include curse words, insults, or slurs, and can hurt or shock people. Context and culture shape what counts as a bad word.

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There are no bad words. Bad thoughts. Bad intentions, and wooooords. George Carlin

Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of 'The Giver': the world where there are no bad words and no bad deeds. But it is also the world where choice has been taken away and reality distorted. And that is the most dangerous world of all. Lois Lowry

It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones. Ray Bradbury

I don't think socialism, and I don't think warmness and respect are necessarily bad words. Dave Matthews

Command that your marshal be careful to be present over the household, and especially in the hall, to keep the household, within doors and without, respectable, without dispute or noise, or bad words. Robert Grosseteste

Some comedians tell nice jokes that you can tell to your kids. Some use bad words - they work 'blue.' If you don't want to hear a joke that's blue, you shouldn't go to a comedy club where a comedian who makes blue jokes is performing. Gilbert Gottfried

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