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:memo: A text file containing 479k English words for all your dictionary/word-based projects e.g: auto-completion / autosuggestion

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Clean out swear words, racial slurs and other inappropriate words

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I filtered out some(not all because I don't have extensive knowledge on every swear and slur in the world) of them in the file(cleanwords.txt). Please make a version without swears/slurs/other.
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I filtered out some(not all because I don't have extensive knowledge on every swear and slur in the world) of them in the file(cleanwords.txt). Please make a version without swears/slurs/other. words.txt

I've only just found this list, but I think that your query may be very difficult. I'm Australian, and many words bandied about here would seem extremely indelicate to Americans. I come from a pretty salty-voiced family anyway, and I have a high tolerance for "swear" words. But whether a word is a swear word or not is often a matter of local usage. Probably your best bet would be to search for words you don't like and filter them out - as it appears you have done. But whether you or anybody else likes them or not - they're still English words!

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It would be cool to have a "business appropriate" list, or at the very least a list that doesn't have all the racial slurs in there...