Sentence examples for a taboo word from inspiring English sources

But for me, it's not a taboo word.

"Fear" is a taboo word in auction-house speak.

Easy is a taboo word in baseball, a game that is notoriously tough to master.

So growing evidence of liberalising reforms in North Korea is tantalising .Reform" remains a taboo word in the North.

Secretary is now almost a taboo word that can be freighted with sexist condescension, but in those pre-feminist days, many women accepted labels like secretary and stewardess with pride because they signified status, mobility and sophistication.

As Pinker describes it, this has all the classic hallmarks of "desensitisation", where a kind of aerial bombardment of a taboo word ends up removing its power to shock, as well as any sense of its precise meaning.

" 'Mom' was a sore, taboo word," Samantha told me.

However, not all taboo words are intended to offend someone.

Here is a love story from director Ang Lee in which the taboo word "love" is never spoken.

Some BBC guidelines suggest that the use of a euphemism such as "effing" is potentially as offensive as pronouncing the taboo word that is being alluded to.

The largest contradiction that can easily be inspected is in the themes of Trump and Sanders: Trump has rehabilitated a kind of racism aimed at immigrants, while Sanders has made the taboo word "socialism" acceptable in political dialogue.