crude language
- vulgarCrude or indecent
- profanityVulgar or obscene speech
- swearingProfane speech or vows
- obsceneGrossly offensive to decency
- coarseRough in texture
foul-mouthed · cursing · expletives · filthy · raunchy · lewd · gutter · blasphemy · cuss · dirty · salty · uncouth · bawdy · ribald · off-color · locker room · sailor · trash talk
- cursescurse, curses, hex, hexes, jinx
- adult humorblue humor, dirty jokes, dirty joke, bawdy humor, bawdy jokes
- RabelaisianGargantua, carnivalesque, ribaldry, bawdiness, scatology
refinement and polish
crude languagerefined language
Polished, cultivated speech
eloquence · high style · florid prose · ornate language · purple prose
delicacy of expression
crude languageeuphemism
Mild substitute for bluntness
circumlocution · coded language · indirect speech · veiled language · oblique reference