"term" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- An innocuous, inoffensive or circumlocutory term or phrase for something unpleasant or obscene.
- "What possible reason do we have to agree to these obscene terms?"
- As there is no explanatory note for the term obscene, the interpretation of it may become highly subjective and therefore contentious.
- The judge has also been criticized for permitting the same lawyer to ask Ms. Hanson to define an obscene term.
- She had noticed that American men seemed to avoid the use of obscene terms in the company of women.
- The young policemen in the cordon were polite, she said, but an older officer told her to get off home in obscene terms.
- The adjective quilombera used in the third line is a mildly obscene term.
- The demonstrators carried posters attacking Mayor David Dinkins in crudely racial, sometimes obscene terms.
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