cussing
present participle ofcuss
cuss
verb[I]
mainlyUSold-fashionedinformaluk/kʌs/us/kʌs/to say words that are notpolitebecause you areangry
Synonym
swear
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curseverb(SPEAK ANGRILY)
blaspheme
Swearing and blasphemy
- air
- blaspheme
- blasphemously
- C-word
- cuss
- damn
- eff
- expletive
- four-letter word
- imprecation
- oath
- profanity
- strong
- swear like a trooperidiom
- sworn
- the air is blueidiom
- the F-word
- the N-word
- trooper
- wash
Examplesofcussing
cussing
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
The scheme we are now dis-cussinghas had a big influence in widening the scope of training for younger people.
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When they are kept up to date let us use them in such humanitarian matters as we are dis-cussingthis afternoon.
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I wish to deal, first, with the aim of the service which we are now dis-cussing.
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Surely we are dis-cussinga perfect example of attempting to placate exactly the same forces in exactly the same country.
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That is a much bigger operation numerically than that which we are dis-cussingtonight.
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There is no other provision in the selection of amendments or new clauses whereby we could be discussingthese questions at all.
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I make no complaint that in dis-cussingthe matter of economic co-ordination the attention of nearly everybody has been directed to economic co-ordination as a war measure.
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We'd spend hourscussing/blazing at lunchtimes, during class, break times then after school - basically at any opportunity.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Gina gets angry, gives him the keys and gets out of the housecussinghim.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It begins with a teenage boy and his friendscussingabout how the heavy metal genre and its artists should be praised.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.And he came off the doggone chopper, and he startedcussingand people started moving.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.She is the good girl, who chastises the others forcussing(as children and adults).
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Canvassing together, they spent the first part of each campaign stopcussingout each other's politics and telling stories, and the second part playing fiddle tunes while the crowd danced.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Ky ran after her and pleaded that he wasn'tcussingat his golf game, he just hates honeysuckle.
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