expletive
感叹语,感叹词,感叹号,感叹句
Related Words
Definitions
- 1
- : an interjectory word or expression, frequently profane; an exclamatory oath.
- : a syllable, word, or phrase serving to fill out.
- : Grammar. a word considered as regularly filling the syntactic position of another, as it in It is his duty to go, or there in There is nothing here.
- 1
- : Also ex·ple·to·ry [ek-spli-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee]. /ˈɛk splɪˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i/. added merely to fill out a sentence or line, give emphasis, etc.: Expletive remarks padded the speech.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
The walls were covered in spray-painted expletives that mentioned Myers by name, photos show.
Case in point—when Teresa Giudice, the only current housewife remaining from the first season, flipped a table in an expletive-laden rage, it became more than just juicy fodder for the show, but instead a watershed moment in reality TV history.
She explodes again and again, slapping herself, screaming obscenities, writing expletives, banging her face against a wall.
Barnett insisted he didn’t steal the mail, telling a reporter that he left a quarter and note with an expletive and his nickname “Bigo” on the desk.
I remember listening to Walter Isaacson tell me that on the day that … the day before he died, his daughter came in, and he’d made some expletive about how she looked.
However, Martin redeemed himself when correctly guessing a fake expletive-laden clue read by Meyers.
Kaufman returns after the break to deliver an expletive-ridden tirade against Lawler.
Watch him unleash a magnificent, expletive-ridden rant—and be grateful for the Internet, where this harangue will live forever.
So be careful what you say and what you do, because the Kinect, for better and worse, really is [expletive] watching you.
Now, it seems, Hamas is being struck from the list of expletive targets.
The expletive that it now behoves us to consider is one which has never been adequately treated in a book.