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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
battology, bedizenment, blurt, curse, cuss, cuss word, de trop, dirty name, dirty word, dispensable, duplication, duplication of effort, dysphemism, ecphonesis, ejaculation, embellishment, epithet, excess, exclamation, expendable, extravagance, fat, featherbedding, filler, filling, foul invective, frill, frills, frippery, gingerbread, gratuitous, in excess, iterative, luxury, macrology, naughty word, needless, needlessness, no-no, nonessential, oath, obscenity, ornamentation, outburst, overadornment, overlap, padding, payroll padding, pleonasm, pleonastic, profane oath, prolix, prolixity, redundance, redundancy, redundant, reiterative, repetitious, spare, stammering, stuttering, supererogatory, superfluity, superfluous, superfluousness, swear, swearword, tautologic, tautological, tautologism, tautologous, tautology, to spare, uncalled-for, unessential, unnecessariness, unnecessary, unneeded, verbose, verbosity, wordy
Dictionary Results for expletive:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
expletive
    n 1: profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger;
         "expletives were deleted" [syn: curse, curse word,
         expletive, oath, swearing, swearword, cuss]
    2: a word or phrase conveying no independent meaning but added
       to fill out a sentence or metrical line

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Expletive \Ex"ple*tive\, n.
   A word, letter, or syllable not necessary to the sense, but
   inserted to fill a vacancy; an oath.
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         While explectives their feeble aid to join,
         And ten low words oft creep in one dull line. --Pope.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Expletive \Ex"ple*tive\, a. [L. expletivus, from expletus, p. p.
   of explere to fill up; ex out+plere to fill, akin to plenus
   full: cf. F. expl['e]tif. See Full.]
   Filling up; hence, added merely for the purpose of filling
   up; superfluous. "Expletive imagery." --Hallam.
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         Expletive phrases to plump his speech.   --Barrow.
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