Antonyms for dirty worddirty word

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1. dirty wordnoun

   Synonyms:
   profanity, oath, curse word, curse

2. dirty wordnoun

   A word that is considered vulgar, not necessarily sexual in nature.

   The child was made to sit in the corner as punishment for saying a dirty word.

   Synonyms:
   curse word, curse, profanity, oath

3. dirty wordnoun

   The name of a topic that a person does not like to hear or discuss.

   Work is a dirty word to him.

   Synonyms:
   oath, curse word, curse, profanity

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1. • Profanity
   • Word

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. obscenity, smut, vulgarism, filth, dirty wordnoun

   an offensive or indecent word or phrase

   Synonyms:
   commonness, coarseness, bawdiness, soil, salacity, grunge, porno, vulgarity, filthiness, skank, carbon black, grease, obscenity, soot, foulness, lampblack, vulgarism, grime, erotica, lewdness, grossness, dirt, smut fungus, smut, filth, pornography, nastiness, raunch, porn, salaciousness, crock, stain, crud

2. dirty wordnoun

   a word that is considered to be unmentionable

   "`failure' is a dirty word to him"

   Synonyms:
   obscenity, vulgarism, smut, filth

How to use dirty word in a sentence?

1. Tommy Chong:

   To me, Bernie seems more suited for the country, there was some writer from the Washington Post who said that Bernie would be a disaster because he's a socialist. Well, people don't realize that ... in the last eight years, socialism is not a dirty word anymore.

2. Hal Singer:

   ' Novel' is a dirty word in antitrust, it doesn't matter if it's a Democratic-appointed judge or a Republican-appointed judge — they're all conservative in the sense that they're worried about their opinions being appealed.

3. Glenn Bramhall:

   I'm going to use a dirty word, I'm going to say the word profile. It's able to profile aircraft or objects that are flying through space.

4. Penn Jillette:

   There seems to be one person in this race who's actually genuine and not crazy. And that's Bernie, he uses the word socialist, which in the United States is what? Sixty percent socialist now? We're a mixed economy. This is all stuff a libertarian probably shouldn't say, but 'socialist' isn't a dirty word. It's a different way of looking at how the government works.

5. Joe Biden:

   He understood that we're part of something bigger than ourselves... in that compromise isn't a dirty word. It's the cornerstone of democracy. Consensus is required in a democracy to get anything done, joe Biden're bidding this great American farewell, but Joe Biden know, as long as Joe Biden keep his spirit alive, as long as Joe Biden see each other not as enemies but as neighbors and colleagues, as long as Joe Biden remember that Joe Biden're here not to tear down but to build up -- as long as Joe Biden remember that -- then Taps will never sound for Bob Dole. For Bob will be with Joe Biden always.

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