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What is a bad word?


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Word Bad words are "bad" based on social etiquette, what is deemed "vulgar," and moral issues going back to Puritan days.

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Synonyms for bad include: abominable, amiss, atrocious, awful, bad news*, beastly, blah*, bottom out, bummer*, careless, cheap, cheesy*, crappy*, cruddy, crummy*, defective, deficient, diddly, dissatisfactory, downer*, dreadful, erroneous, MORE?

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Bad words are words that are not nice. They could be swears or words that degrade or put down others. Stupid and shut up are bad.

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A bad word is a word that is not socially appropriate. It might have a bad connotation or be rude or disrespectful to someone.

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A-- wipe is a bad word that means toilet paper. ChaCha out!

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A bad word is an unacceptable or politically incorrect term. Thanks for using ChaCha.

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Bad words are words that are said in order to make someone or something look or feel bad. Cursing is a type of bad word usage.

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