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expletive

/ek-spli-tiv/US // ˈɛk splɪ tɪv //UK // (ɪkˈspliːtɪv) //

感叹语,感叹词,感叹号,感叹句

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an interjectory word or expression, frequently profane; an exclamatory oath.
    • : a syllable, word, or phrase serving to fill out.
    • : Grammar. a word considered as regularly filling the syntactic position of another, as it in It is his duty to go, or there in There is nothing here.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : Also ex·ple·to·ry [ek-spli-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee]. /ˈɛk splɪˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i/. added merely to fill out a sentence or line, give emphasis, etc.: Expletive remarks padded the speech.

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Examples

  • The walls were covered in spray-painted expletives that mentioned Myers by name, photos show.

  • Case in point—when Teresa Giudice, the only current housewife remaining from the first season, flipped a table in an expletive-laden rage, it became more than just juicy fodder for the show, but instead a watershed moment in reality TV history.

  • She explodes again and again, slapping herself, screaming obscenities, writing expletives, banging her face against a wall.

  • Barnett insisted he didn’t steal the mail, telling a reporter that he left a quarter and note with an expletive and his nickname “Bigo” on the desk.

  • I remember listening to Walter Isaacson tell me that on the day that … the day before he died, his daughter came in, and he’d made some expletive about how she looked.

  • However, Martin redeemed himself when correctly guessing a fake expletive-laden clue read by Meyers.

  • Kaufman returns after the break to deliver an expletive-ridden tirade against Lawler.

  • Watch him unleash a magnificent, expletive-ridden rant—and be grateful for the Internet, where this harangue will live forever.

  • So be careful what you say and what you do, because the Kinect, for better and worse, really is [expletive] watching you.

  • Now, it seems, Hamas is being struck from the list of expletive targets.

  • The expletive that it now behoves us to consider is one which has never been adequately treated in a book.

  • Probably few persons who allow themselves the enjoyment of that rather jocular expletive, the deuce!

  • There is in Madrid a "Calle Jesus," and the sacred name, used as a common expletive, is heard on all sides.

  • He blurted out his favorite expletive, lighted a new cigar, walked his room, and chafed like a caged tiger.

  • The other use is a kind of pious expletive, intending “I must endure it,” “I am the slave of a higher power.”