But when they’re angry, really angry, they may begin to swear and condemn and use words that are obscene and sacrilegious.
Obscene meaning disgusting and offensive; sacrilegious meaning disrespectful in a religious way, bringing gods and deities, for instance, into the conversation.
This is how terrible sounding words too bad to repeat – “or remember”, in the words of Nelly the maid in Wuthering Heights – become known as choice words.
Or even if the chosen words are not that bad, they’re not things people usually say in ordinary conversation. Not in polite society, at any rate.
In any case, they’re called choice words because, presumably, the speakers have all done a lot of picking and choosing before coming up with that particular vulgarity and not any other – and there is certainly a large cesspool of obscenities to choose from.
Anyhow, “choice words” stand for unutterable vulgarities in one form or another, which are understood perfectly within context even if they’re not printed out.
So here are a few contexts via recent media (Note: The “expletive” in Example 3 represents a cussword that’s not printable):
1. Late-night talk show host and frequent President Trump critic Jimmy Kimmel had a few choice words for the president’s oldest son Friday, calling Donald Trump Jr. an “imbecile” who does little more than tweeting.
In an interview aired Friday on “Good Morning America,” Mr. Kimmel addressed Mr. Trump Jr.’s recent attacks against him for not addressing the Harvey Weinstein scandal on his show sooner. The first son criticized Mr. Kimmel, who has spoken out on his show about controversial topics like gun control and health care, for not addressing the numerous sexual harassment allegations against the disgraced Hollywood mogul immediately after the news initially broke.
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