potty-mouthed

Given to swearing

Potty-mouthed describes someone who habitually uses vulgar or profane language: The potty-mouthed comedian shocked the older audience members.

The term itself is mild and often playful, suggesting the speaker's crudeness is more juvenile than truly offensive—like a child who hasn't learned bathroom words aren't for polite company.

vulgar

obscene

Grossly offensive to decency

smutty · filthy · scatological · ribald · indecent · salacious · crude · coarse · trashy · risque

irreverent

blasphemous

Disrespectful toward the divine

disrespectful · iconoclastic · heretical · ungodly · unholy · irreligious · scurrilous · defiant · cheeky · flippant

crude

uncouth

Lacking good manners

rough · gruff · blunt · tactless · indelicate · unpolished · unsophisticated · inelegant · rude · crass

offensive

insulting

Showing contempt through words

disparaging · belittling · degrading · contemptuous · scornful · mocking · scathing · vituperative · caustic · cutting

Opposites
speech decorum

potty-mouthedwell-spoken

Speaking with refinement

prim · proper · refined · prim and proper · polite

Family

potty, mouth, mouthed, mouths, mouthing, mouthy, potted, potting

Familiarity
Top 100,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG