nonswearing

Keeping speech pure

Nonswearing describes someone who doesn't use profanity or obscenities, or something characterized by the absence of such language: a nonswearing household, Is there a nonswearing version of that song?

The term often appears in contexts where clean language is notable or required.

decorum

propriety

Correctness of conduct

dignity · modesty · restraint · tactfulness · discretion · courtesy · civility · decorum · genteelness · refinement

speech

clean

Free of soil

appropriate · sanitized · polite · decent · mild · temperate · genteel · euphemistic · bowdlerized · expurgated

virtue

purity

Uncontaminated quality

uprightness · rectitude · probity · integrity · righteousness · chastity · piety · goodness · cleanness · blamelessness

oath

affirmation

Positive statement of truth

avowal · pledge · promise · vow · statement · testimony · assurance · word · honor

Opposites
use of profanity/vulgar language

nonswearingswearing

Profane speech or vows

cursing · foul-mouthed · profane · vulgar · obscene

Family

non, swearing, swear, swears, swore, sworn, swearword, forswear, forsworn

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G