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How to use cuss in a sentence

20 example sentences · verb, noun

Cuss means to use cursing, to use bad language, to speak profanely. Example: “He's an abrupt-sounding cuss, but good-hearted too.”

Examples of cuss by meaning

nounFellow, person.

  • He's an abrupt-sounding cuss, but good-hearted too.
  • Polybius was a determined cuss and he kept at the fruit cart until he saved enough to start a regular fruit store.1920, International Fire Fighter, volumes 3-4, page 26

nounA fellow, person.

  • "Proud young cuss, aren't you?" "Apparently - I don't know." "Or is it you are just pig-headed?"1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter I, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, page 6
  • Dawn Run's owner, Charmian Hill, who had insisted on trainer Paddy Mullins 'jocking off' his son Tony and putting up Jonjo O'Neill to ride her in the Gold Cup, was an awkward cuss too.2012, Robin Oakley, Britain and Ireland's Top 100 Racehorses of All Time

More sentences with cuss

  • I don't give a tinker's cuss about your opinions, I'm doing it my way.From the entry give a tinker's cuss
  • A few cuss words on her part had him spilling everything.2006, Kali James, Can U Get Away?, page 17. From the entry hem up
  • "Somebody crib the mayor's crown jools, or has some joyous cuss eloped with the auto patrol?"1920 June, The Electrical Experimenter, New York, page 151, column 2. From the entry crib
  • "A d—d highfalutin, tonified cuss he is," said Backus as soon as the prospector was out of earshot.2015, Richard Baxter Townshend, Lone Pine : The Story of a Lost Mine. From the entry tonified
  • DURING my boyhood on a Vermont farm the gyascutus or cute cuss, was not a rare barnyard animal.1965, Benjamin Albert Botkin, A treasury of New England folklore. From the entry gyascutus
  • He was about the likeablest cuss I ever met.1946, Zane Grey, chapter 11, in Shadow on the Trail, Roslyn, N.Y.: Walter J. Black, →OCLC, page 139. From the entry likeable
  • The old-fashioned coon was a fine old cuss--he knew his place--but these young dinges don't want to be porters or cotton-pickers.1922, Sinclair Lewis, “10”, in Babbitt. From the entry dinges
  • Of all the onnery new galoots That come to Scrambletown that summer, The meanest cuss—you bet your boots— Was H.A.1903, Charles August Fisher, The Minstrel with the Selfsame Song: And Other Poems, page 116. From the entry hummer
  • I dipped a cheese stick into some sauce and tried not to cuss him out for ruining my amusing thoughts about little demon creatures.2015, Anna Todd, After Ever Happy, →ISBN, page 446. From the entry cheese stick
  • “I forgot you don’t like cussing.2014, Tonia Brown, “Cassiopeia”, in Sundowners, Permuted Press, Smashwords, →ISBN. From the entry cass
  • When you're traveling Michigan roads and cussing out the potholes, MDOT wants you to know that THEY know that pothole patches don't last.2014 April 16, Diane E Coston, “MDOT Addressing Pot Hole Myth with RealityCheck”, in WHTC.com, retrieved 19 Apr 2014. From the entry cuss out
  • He fell, in a flutter of quilts and a storm of cuss words totally unfit for a lady's ears, to her feet.2004, Patricia Lucas White, Edwina Parkhurst Spinster. From the entry flutter
  • Young callers who come cussing are simply asked to use good language when they visit so they can be invited back again.1994, Marguerite Kelly, Marguerite Kelly's Family Almanac. From the entry good language
  • "The low-down, ornery cuss!" said Dobbs.1922 November 25, A[rthur] M[urray] Chisholm, “A Thousand a Plate. Chapter II.”, in Western Story Magazine, volume XXX, number 4, New…. From the entry ornery
  • “This little cuss is a salamander.1920, Peter B. Kyne, chapter XI, in The Understanding Heart. From the entry salamander
  • "If that door opens and any one of you cusses lets on there's anything unusual, right here and then I sure start plugging.1910, Jack London, chapter 4, in Burning Daylight. From the entry feet first

Meaning of cuss

  1. verb To use cursing, to use bad language, to speak profanely.
  2. noun A curse.
  3. noun A curse word.

Full definition of cuss

Questions about cuss in a sentence

How do you use cuss in a sentence?
Cuss is used as a verb and noun. For example: “He's an abrupt-sounding cuss, but good-hearted too.”
What is a short sentence with cuss?
“"The low-down, ornery cuss!" said Dobbs.”
What does cuss mean?
Cuss means to use cursing, to use bad language, to speak profanely.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cuss (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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