Albany politicians are swearing a lot. Using blunt language experts say are an attempt to seem relatable and shape their ...

Profanity, the use of offensive and rude words, is naturally a controversial topic. There is some debate about what profanity reveals about a person’s character, more specifically, whether it is a ...

Standing in a crowded elevator recently, I was privy to a conversation going on between two college students in front of me. The young women were casually chatting about their day while repeatedly ...

SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. — Sarcastic, undignified and unprofessional. That is how the Judicial Qualifications Commission described a Seminole County judge now facing suspension. In a video provided by ...

My daughter’s teacher uses curse words in his teaching. She thinks he does it to impress the students. She doesn’t like it and neither do I. What can I do? A hallmark of the stereotypical “cool” ...

New Hampshire House Speaker Sherman Packard apologized to a female lawmaker and the full House on Friday for using a profanity while referring to her in a brief side comment.Sherman used the language ...

A professor at Louisiana State University was recently fired after a 20-year career at the university for using profanity and sexual humor in the classroom. Teresa Buchanan, a tenured professor of ...

I love profanity, but I think if it's used too much, it just sounds a little trashy. I think it's more effective when it's dropped intelligently. I like intelligent profanity. – Katie Aselton ...

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Jenna Bush Hager brought a little spicy energy to Today With Jenna & Friends on Thursday, when the NBC personality used profanity during a live broadcast, much to the shock of colleague Willie Geist ...

The NBA announced on Sunday that Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert has been fined $25,000 for using profanity in an interview following the team's 110-109 win over the Dallas Mavericks in Game 4 of their ...

There are many reasons, of course, why Americans are using profanity more often, seemingly without regard for what other people think. Timothy Jay, a longtime scholar of profanity, says the trend is ...