v-word

Because the vagina is still taboo last year, an ad for Kotex brand tampons got banned from U.S. television for using the v-word Ensler's work continues to reverberate by creating tension by saying the unsayable.

Jill Di Donato: It's My Fault; Or Is It?: A New Play Explores Rape As More Than a Four Letter Word Jill Di Donato 2011

The dreaded v-word—volatility—has returned with a vengeance.

How to Spot Signs of a Rebound Ben Levisohn 2011

Because the vagina is still taboo last year, an ad for Kotex brand tampons got banned from U.S. television for using the v-word Ensler's work continues to reverberate by creating tension by saying the unsayable.

Jill Di Donato: It's My Fault; Or Is It?: A New Play Explores Rape As More Than a Four Letter Word Jill Di Donato 2011

In a school where we have pregnant eighth graders, we must protect them from the v-word.

Think Progress » Former McCain adviser Mark Zandi: The ‘stimulus was key’ to the strong 4th quarter growth of U.S. economy. 2010

Perhaps the v-word generator was addressing you in the imperative mood.

The Way of the World Peter Rozovsky 2010

Peter, I've forgotten what the v-word was but I've remembered what Mark Twain said:

Raymond Chandler's Irish novel? or, When in doubt, have a man come through a door with a hurley in his hand Peter Rozovsky 2010

The v-word is so apt, but I'm not going to quote it because if I did you wouldn't believe it was true.

Raymond Chandler's Irish novel? or, When in doubt, have a man come through a door with a hurley in his hand Peter Rozovsky 2010

Thus we all referred to the "v-word" and dreaded telling him that we would be leaving even for a holiday.

More pressure than can be borne? ScienceWoman 2007

In my experience in campus ministry, students are already in dread of the v-word and often literally run the other way when I bring it up.

Questions for Those Discerning a Religious Vocation 2009

But the voucher gang has learned from past defeats and is getting a lot more devious, promoting language that never mentions the “v-word” and portraying themselves as defenders of religion.

Archive 2008-05-01 Jim Horn 2008