Profanity

Profanity is socially offensive language, which may also be called cursing, curse words or swearing (British English), cuss words (American English vernacular and Canada), swear words, or expletives. Used in this sense, profanity is a language that is generally considered by certain parts of a culture to be strongly impolite, rude, or offensive. It can show a debasement of someone or something, or be considered as an expression of strong feeling towards something.