Crossword-Solution: EXPLETIVE 9 letters, 42 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 21

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Word Word Type Definition
Expletive a. Filling up; hence, added merely for the purpose of
filling up; superfluous.
Expletive n. A word, letter, or syllable not necessary to the sense,
but inserted to fill a vacancy; an oath.

We have 42 clues for the answer “EXPLETIVE”

Clue Answers
unparliamentary language 1 answer
What "&%$#" might replace 1 answer
SERVING to fill out 1 answer
SENTENCE, serving to fill out (of words etc.) 1 answer
One may be represented by stars 1 answer
Darn, for one 1 answer
Far-from-refined remark 1 answer
Message not left after the beep? 1 answer
METRICAL line, serving to fill out (of words etc.) 1 answer
It might be deleted 1 answer
Bleeped word 2 answers
Swear-word 4 answers
Scurrility. 6 answers
bad language 6 answers
BEEP, AS A DOCTOR 10 answers
Beep 11 answers
"#@&%!," e.g. 13 answers
Cuss 14 answers
Sacrilege 18 answers
cussing 18 answers
profanation 18 answers
pleonasm 19 answers
Irreverence 20 answers
vulgarism 22 answers
swearing 22 answers
profanity 25 answers
blasphemy 26 answers
Or 27 answers
cursing 28 answers
Impiety 34 answers
Heresy 40 answers
Detestation 43 answers
Oath 44 answers
execration 46 answers
Obscenity 46 answers
anathema 56 answers
Padding 57 answers
Exclamation. 64 answers
Cheek 66 answers
Gush 66 answers
Defilement 71 answers
Harangue 79 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
AEMZCE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with EXPLETIVE (5)

Smith, I didn’t want this bother of church restoration at all, but it was necessary to do something in self-defence, on account of those d——dissenters: I use the word in its scriptural meaning, of course, not as an expletive.” “How very odd!” said Stephen, with the concern demanded of serious friendliness.
A Pair of Blue Eyes Thomas Hardy 1995
Simpson, after having let a variety of expletive adjectives loose upon society without any substantive to accompany them, tucked up his sleeves, and began to wash the greens for dinner.
The Pickwick Papers Charles Dickens 2009
She was in quest of two o’clock; and when she learned it was already seven on the shores of Clyde, she lifted up her voice and cried ‘Gravy!’ I had not heard this innocent expletive since I was a young child; and I suppose it must have been the same with the other Scotsmen present, for we all laughed our fill.
Essays of Travel Robert Louis Stevenson 2010
They want to see you." Slim threw himself out the door with the mild expletive: "Darn the luck!" Bud turned quickly to Polly.
The Round-up John Murray and Marion Mills Miller 1996
Luke uncorked an expletive which, like brandy in a temperance household, was only used on rare emergencies.
The Toys of Peace Saki 2011

Quotes with EXPLETIVE (3)

... there is a whole hell of a lot of knowledge about the (expletive removed) human condition that we are not ready for.
Norah Vincent Voluntary Madness: My Year Lost and Found in the Loony Bin
However, I have a stronger hunch that the greatest part of the important biomedical research waiting to be done is in the class of basic science. There is an abundance of interesting fact relating to all our major diseases, and more items of information are coming in steadily from all quarters in biology. The new mass of knowledge is still formless, in complete, lacking the essential threads of connection, displaying misleading signals at every turn, riddled with blind alleys…
Lewis Thomas
The parrot had a range of phrases. His own name ('Niko, Niko'), the name of his original owner and now 'Stavros'. Occasionally he would also say 'Panagia mou', which could be an expression of piety but also a gentle expletive, depending on how it was said. With the parrot it was hard to tell. It did not sound pious.
Victoria Hislop The Last Dance: And Other Stories
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, WSJ.

Used 7 times in crossword archives (1970–2025).