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Encyclopedia entry: FOUL LANGUAGE
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- Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
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Copyright© Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language 1998, originally published by Oxford University Press 1998. (Hide copyright information)
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FOUL LANGUAGE.
Indecent or obscene words and phrases, such as four-letter words, such sexual slurs as
poofter
and
whore
, especially when used directly to refer to or address someone, and swearwords referring ...
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Article: Italian Americans Accuse INS of Bias; 'Ethnic ...
The Washington Post;
March 8, 1999 ;
700+ words
... ... former top executives "who have . . . regularly engaged in ethnic slurs about subordinate Italian-American employees of INS ... wrote on Feb. 24, 1997, that it had investigated "alleged ethnic slurs" made by William S. Slattery, then the INS's executive ...
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