maledicta
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profanity and other taboo or insulting language, such as blasphemy and vulgarity.
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maledicta balloon, a speech bubble with grawlix.
Example Sentences
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His words, Catullus cum maledicta minaretur, compared with the last lines of this poem, Irascere iterum meis iambis Inmerentibus, unice imperator, seem to justify my view that they belong here.
From The Poems and Fragments of Catullus by Ellis, Robinson
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