bad language en · NOUN
Meanings
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(uncountable) Profanity.
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.
2013 June 14, Sam Leith, “Where the profound meets the profane”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 37:
Translations (7)
el αθυροστομία (profanity) · gv glare-vroghe (profanity) · ga droch-chaint (profanity) · gv drogh chaaynt (profanity) · ga drochtheanga (profanity) · gv caaynt gharroo (profanity) · fr gros mots (profanity)