Costs lawyer writing in Costs Lawyer magazine on the approach the Legal Services Commission takes to allowances for preparing claims for costs:
“Ridiculous, unrealistic, appalling and downright insulting. These are just some of the expletives that came to mind…”
“Expletives”?
I guess some costs lawyers have led more sheltered lives than others.
As with many words, it can have more than one meaning. So rather than just being a profanity, it can also be a word that contributes nothing to meaning of a sentence but suggests the strength of feeling of the writer.
I sure you use them in your pods (in this sense).