bad language

English

Noun

bad language (uncountable)

Profanity.
- 2013 June 14, Sam Leith, “Where the profound meets the profane”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 37:
  Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths. Consider for a moment the origins of almost any word we have for bad language – "profanity", "curses", "oaths" and "swearing" itself.

Translations

profanity

French: gros mots (fr)
Greek: αθυροστομία (el) f (athyrostomía)
Irish: droch-chaint f, drochtheanga f
Manx: caaynt gharroo f, drogh chaaynt f, glare-vroghe f

References

“bad language”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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