bad word

bad word

A curse or swear word. You just said a bad word! I'm telling mom! Please try not to curse around the kids—I don't want them repeating any bad words!
See also: bad, word
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • bad company
  • as bad as all that
  • in (someone's) bad books
  • in someone's bad books
  • cess
  • bad cess to
  • bad cess to (one)
  • be downhill all the way
  • downhill all the way
  • have a bad opinion of (someone or something)
References in classic literature
"I -- I want to say a bad word, Anne," blurted out Davy, with a desperate effort.
"But you don't want your mind filled with bad words, do you, Davy -- words that will poison it and drive out all that is good and manly?"
Anne of The Island
Never a bad word have I for the French, for, though I have ridden twenty times up to their array, I have never yet failed to find some very gentle and worthy knight or squire who was willing to do what he might to enable me to attempt some small feat of arms.
The White Company
"Bad words were made for bad things," said Ginger, and she told him what Sir Oliver had said.
Black Beauty
Don't use any bad words; and don't stare when the young lady is not looking at you, and be ready to hide your face when she is; and, when you speak, say your words slowly, and keep your hands out of your pockets.
'Papa told you not to say any bad words, and you can't open your mouth without one.
Wuthering Heights
What she said in her lovely tinkle Wendy could not of course understand, and I believe some of it was bad words, but it sounded kind, and she flew back and forward, plainly meaning "Follow me, and all will be well."
The Adventures of Peter Pan
Those are bad words, and wicked people often say them of others better than themselves.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
It was beautiful to behold the many-yoked grain and cotton wagons crawling over the country roads: one could hear their axles, complaining a mile away, coming nearer, till with shouts and yells and bad words they climbed up the steep incline and plunged on to the hard main road, carter reviling carter.
Kim
My dad heard me using a very bad word and he took 50p off me.
I have to work for pocket money
I will remember him as a lovely, lovely man who never had a bad word about anybody and nobody had a bad word about him.'
SWINGING SIXTIES STAR LES DIES, 6; Blue Jeans bass player had cancer
Whenever I hear the expression, bon mot , it reminds me of the words of many a bereaved family who tell me that their loved one ``never had a bad word for anyone.
THOUGHT for the Day
When she heard him uttering the bad word she says she gave him "a tap" and he roared crying.
Clare McKeon's Column: A CASE OF TWO WRONGS; Mum's 'tap' so unjust.. TV taught foul words
They can slag me off all they like but I want them to know I forgive them for every bad word they ever said about me."
A Woman Of Her Word Part 256,897
Whenever I hear the expression bon mot it reminds me of the words of many a bereaved family who tell me that their loved one ``never had a bad word for anyone.
THOUGHT for the DAY