Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In the manner of an expletive.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In the manner of an expletive.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In an
expletive way.
Etymologies
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Examples
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And, where a dance is expletively introduced in the intervals of the acts, the subject of it should have, at least, some affinity to the piece.
A Treatise on the Art of Dancing Giovanni-Andrea Gallini 1766
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But wouldn't it be great to hurl as much expletively filled abuse at your laptop thief, should the situation arise?
Shiny Shiny 2009
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But wouldn't it be great to hurl as much expletively filled abuse at your laptop thief, should the situation arise?
Shiny Shiny 2009
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This Dataset have two tables the original and the alias table with one and two rows expletively.
ASP.NET Forums JuliaRomero 2009
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The next morning I am sitting in the lobby of the Ponchartrain Hotel on St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans still thinking about the President's speech to the nation and I would bet my Robert Earl Keen t-shirt that I could step out into the street right now and ask the first person I met to tell me what the way forward in New Orleans looks like, and they would have some very specific (if expletively enhanced) suggestions for both Congress and the President.
The Way Forward 2006
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