Word: curser
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...Lesley's character: as the cuteness about her modus operandi evaporates, he forces a re-examination of the sources of her original appeal. Her apparent virtues quite rightly are transformed into vices: her serenity becomes coldness, her determination ruthlessness, her affectionate mannerisms so much hypocritical garbage. Lesley the unblinking curser of teachers almost effortlessly becomes Lesley the murderer...
...Richard P. Michael gives the case history of a 28-year-old man who was a spectacular example of the Gilles de la Tourette syndrome (named for the French doctor who outlined the symptoms in 1885). The patient developed a tic at the age of seven, was an accomplished curser at 13, when even the reading of Tom Sawyer would set him off on a string of oaths. When he entered the British army at 18, he unaccountably stopped swearing, nevertheless managed to make sergeant...
...foul language in field and camp, but very little of it got beyond a few four-letter words . . ." This complaint, in which Burges Johnson concurs, would be perfectly sound if cursing were entirely a verbal matter, but it is not. Its effect is proportionate to the kidney of the curser. The four-letter banalities that bore Mr. Mencken might suffice to turn him pale when uttered in foulness of spirit. Likewise, the most horrible oaths in the language can sound like pink tea if pronounced in a sterile tone. Professor Johnson does not go into the profundities of profanity. Treating...
Tough urchins with names like Angel, T.B., Dippy, Spit, peopled the play and brought it to fame. Toughest and meanest of these was Spit, biggest bully, loudest curser, and a squealer...
...Washington," he said, "was a great card player, a distiller of whisky and a champion curser, and he danced for three hours without stopping with the wife of his principal general. As for religious tendencies, Washington never prayed and consistently avoided participating in communion...