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{{trope}}
{{quote|'''Sebastian''': Well, your objections have been duly noted and summarily overruled.
'''Sarah''': Yes, Sir!
'''Sebastian''': [[Lampshade Hanging|How come when you say "Yes, Sir" it kinda sounds like "Fuck you"?]]
'''Sarah''': Practice!
|''[[Hollow Man]]''}}
This language trope is most common to family fare: A character's spoken line contains no profanity whatsoever, but the tone and phrasing used by the actor is so obvious that the audience will hear the intended profanity just the same.
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Compare [[Stealth Insult]], [[Precision F-Strike]]. Not to be confused with [[Narrative Profanity Filter]], where a character really does swear - it just doesn't appear directly in the text.
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* One issue of [[Marvel Universe|Marvel's]] ''[[Secret Wars II]]'' has Phoenix (the Rachel Summers variety) express sympathy for The Beyonder's hurt feelings, while her face makes it clear she'd kill him if she could. (By the way, the reason his feelings got hurt was that she wouldn't let him manipulate her into destroying the universe.)
== [[Fan
* Search the Web for the phrase "made it sound like a curse." It seems to be endemic in [[Fanfic]].
** Considering the sort of books your stereotypical [[Fanfic]] author gets into, they probably think it makes their work sound like high literature.
== [[Film]] ==
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* In the 2009 ''[[Star Trek (film)|Star Trek]]'' film, Spock puts a certain amount of inflection and vitriol into the respectful Vulcan salutation, "Live Long And Prosper", so that it sounds like a [[Precision F-Strike]].
* In the first ''[[Sister Act]]'' movie, Sister Mary Clarence says "Bless you" in a way that makes it clear the word she would use, if she wasn't in a nun habit and surrounded by nuns, begins with an F.
* ''[[Perversion
* ''[[The Princess and the Frog
== [[Literature]] ==
* In the [[Discworld]] novel ''[[
** Additionally, in ''[[
** In ''[[
* The character of Tzetzas in [[David Drake]] and [[S. M. Stirling]]'s ''[[The General]]'' series is usually pronounced as if it were a curse.
** "He gives graft a bad name."
** There's a [[Running Gag]] that whenever his name is brought up in conversation, Suzette tells the person/people saying it to stop swearing.
* In ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the
* In ''[[Harry Potter
* One scene in ''[[Great Expectations]]'' has Pip's sister say "Lord bless the boy!" in a way that makes it sound quite the opposite.
* In the ''[[Stationery Voyagers]]'' episode "[[An Asskicking Christmas|Essentials of Nativity]]," Katrina Mantalone is depicted in a [[Bad Future]] barging into a room full of terrorists and shouting: "Coffins are on DISCOUNT!!!" right before blowing half of them away with her dual pistols. It may seem non-sequitur at first, but her actions reveal that her intended meaning of "Die, m*f*ers!" could hardly be any more obvious.
* Penn illustrates this trope in the ''[[Penn
▲== [[Live Action TV]] ==
▲* Penn illustrates this trope in the ''[[Penn and Teller Bullshit]]'' episode on profanity, by insulting a dog in a soft-spoken voice, then angrily screaming at it "'''''I LOVE YOU, DOG!'''''". The point of this exercise is to show the viewers that the dog reacts to the human's tone of voice, not to what actual words he says.
{{quote|'''Penn''': ''(reassuringly)'' No, it's okay. Really, I hate your stinking guts.}}
* ''[[Angel]]'' example: There is a moment in the third season where Cordelia is forced to overhear a part of Angel's Epic Rage against the way [[The Powers That Be]] treats Cordelia. She only hears the part: "She is a ''rich girl'' from Sunnydale who likes to play Superhero. She doesn't have what it ''takes!''" Considering Cordelia's reaction, he may as well have said "A ''Spoiled Bitch''..."
* A recent{{when}} episode of ''[[Supernatural]]'' has Rufus, one of the boys' allies, mutter, "I'm too old for this." [[Lethal Weapon|Four guesses]] as to what everyone heard at the end of the sentence...
** Plus, he kinda looks like [[Danny Glover]].
* ''[[Babylon 5]]'' has Bester's name treated like this. Anyone who has spent five minutes in the same room as Bester and is
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20131106021445/http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2010/04/tim_gunn_critiques_superhero_o.html?ft=1&f=93568166 It's been noted] that ''[[Project Runway]]'' fashion consultant Tim Gunn can make the word "implausible" sound like a swear word.
* Occasionally used on ''[[Have I Got News for You]]'' as a way of [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: "Perhaps he should go sack himself."
** Paul Merton likes to refer to people having been "hung up by the Bolsheviks" or "dragged off by the Cherokees" in a way that makes it sound [[Groin Attack|like a particularly painful form of punishment]].
** [[Boris Johnson|"I've devolved some of my functions..."]] "I'm sorry to hear that."
*
{{quote|'''Jerry:''' Hello... Newman.}}
* ''[[The Daily Show]]'' played a clip of professional persecution junkie Bill Donohue ranting about how "every Lenten season" Catholics in America have more [[Political Correctness Gone Mad]] to put up with; Jon noted that "Lenten" really sounds like a swearword when you say it in that tone.
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* ''[[Robin Hood (TV series)|Robin Hood]]''. The episode name and [[Title Drop]] of "Peace? Off!" would sound like a swear to a British person more than an American, although the swear is not unfamiliar to the latter.
== [[Oral Tradition]], [[Folklore]], Myths and Legends ==
* In some translations of [[The Bible]], in the book of [[The Bible/Source/Job|Job]], Satan dares God to strike Job to take away all that he has and see if he won't "bless" God for it, in which the intended meaning (as pointed out in most other translations) is to "curse" God.▼
▲* In some translations of [[The Bible]], in the book of Job, Satan dares God to strike Job to take away all that he has and see if he won't "bless" God for it, in which the intended meaning (as pointed out in most other translations) is to "curse" God.
▲== [[Stand Up Comedy]] ==
* From Dane Cook's ''Vicious Circle'' special:
{{quote|I said, "God bless you"... but it kind of sounded like "Cover your fucking mouth." Incognito. }}
** PEACE OFF!
* Oddly enough [[Sam Kinison]], who normally had no problem [[Cluster F-Bomb|bombing the neighborhood]], used one when describing his second ex-wife: "God bless 'er!" delivered in a jaw-clenched tone that clearly implies an alternate meaning.
== [[Theatre]] ==
* At one point in ''[[Hair (theatre)|Hair]]'', a character says "Thank you, Sandy"; the stage directions call for it to be intoned as "Fuck you, Sandy."▼
▲* At one point in ''[[Hair (theatre)]]'', a character says "Thank you, Sandy"; the stage directions call for it to be intoned as "Fuck you, Sandy."
* ''[[One Touch of Venus]]'' has this at the end of the title song:
{{quote|''Mix a little bit of goddess,
''A little bit of damsel,
''And life is just one ''god''dess ''dam''sel cinch. }}
== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Mass Effect]]'' gives us a particularly wonderful line on the subject:
{{quote|'''Ashley Williams:'''
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* "The gnome was muttering to himself, too, in a low, unpleasant manner. He didn't so much curse as deliver each word as if he were cursing, so that 'Butter and bedknobs!' came out sounding like something you'd use to send a demon back to the abyss." - from ''[http://www.webcomicsnation.com/uvernon/littlecreature2/series.php Little Creature and the Redcap]'' by [[Ursula Vernon]].
== [[Web Original]] ==
*
* In the ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' cartoon "Donut Unto Others", Homestar opens a donut stand near Bubs' Concession Stand. Bubs comes up to Homestar and makes small talk... at the top of his lungs, in a threatening tone, and with his face solid red. Homestar, [[The Ditz|ever-oblivious]], takes a few minutes to realize "Are we in a fight?"
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In one episode of ''[[X-Men (animation)|X-Men]]'', Wolverine infiltrates an anti-mutant hate group, the Friends of Humanity, by posing as a trashy, mutant-hating bigot. He plays the role to the letter, down to growling "''mutant''" like a swear word.
* In ''[[Gargoyles]]'', just about any time Goliath says "Xanatos."
* Despite its very family friendly tone, ''[[A Charlie Brown Christmas]]'' has one.
{{quote|'''Charlie Brown''': Man's best friend...}}
* In the pilot movie/first two episodes of ''[[Young Justice (animation)|Young Justice]]'', Kid Flash takes issue with Robin's disappearing act antics and calls him on it: "Way to be a team player, Rob." He comes down hard on the nickname, and it's clear to this troper that it's a placeholder for Robin's real first name, which Kid Flash knows... and which doubles as a pretty vicious curse.
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