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expletive (31 synonym found)

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battology

cuss

cuss word

de trop

dirty name

duplication of effort

ecphonesis

ejaculation

expendable

featherbedding

foul invective

frills

gingerbread

naughty word

needlessness

overadornment

payroll padding

profane oath

prolixity

repetitious

stuttering

supererogatory

superfluousness

swearword

tautologic

tautological

tautologism

to spare

unnecessariness

verbosity

wordy

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Definition of expletive:

(adj) : serving to fill up; marked be expletives (phrase-fillers)

(n) : a profane, vulgar or obscene oath; a word without meaning added to fill a syntactic position

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Definition of expletive:

(adj) : serving to fill up; marked be expletives (phrase-fillers)

(n) : a profane, vulgar or obscene oath; a word without meaning added to fill a syntactic position

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