• Cursing
• Flyting
• How to Rant: Bernard Levin's All-Purpose Invective
• Invective
• Pejorative Language
• Snark
• Swear Word

Examples and Observations:

• Phillips: We play on a real diamond, Porter. You ain’t good enough to lick the dirt off our cleats.
  Porter: Watch it, jerk!
  Phillips: Shut up, idiot!
  Porter: Moron!
  Phillips: Scab eater!
  Porter: Butt sniffer!
  Phillips: Pus licker!
  Porter: Fart smeller!
  Phillips: You eat dog crap for breakfast, geek!
  Porter: You mix your Wheaties with your mama’s toe jam!
  Phillips: You bob for apples in the toilet and you like it!
  Porter: YOU PLAY BALL LIKE A GIRL!
  (from the movie The Sandlot, 1993)

• "Listen up, maggots. You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else."
  (Tyler Durden in the film Fight Club, 1999)
• "Yes, you squashed cabbage-leaf, you disgrace to the noble architecture of these columns, you incarnate insult to the English language! I could pass you off as the Queen of Sheba!"
  (Henry Higgins addressing Eliza Doolittle in George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, 1912)
• "Draw, you whoreson cullionly barber-monger, draw."
  (Kent addressing Oswald in William Shakespeare's King Lear, II.2)
• "I was going to have a few comments about John Edwards, but you have to go into rehab if you use the word 'faggot.'"
  (Ann Coulter speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference, March 5, 2007)
• "Ann Coulter, maniacal, money hungry, far right-wing nut burger has called John Edwards a 'faggot.'"
  (abillings's journal, March 6, 2007)
• Tapinosis: "It is no small fault in a maker to use such wordes and termes as do diminish and and abbase the matter he would seem to set forth, by impairing the dignitie, height, vigour or majestie of the cause he takes in hande."
  (George Puttenham, The Arte of English Poesie, 1589)

• "Charlie Kaufman. Oy vay. I have hated every incomprehensible bucket of pretentious, idiot swill ever written by this cinematic drawbridge troll."
  (Rex Reed, "Could Synecdoche, New York Be the Worst Movie Ever? Yes!" The New York Observer, October 27, 2008)
• "Hope not for mind in women; at their best
  Sweetest and wit, they are but Mummy, posessed."
  (John Donne, "Love's Alchemy")
• Patient: Dr. Chase said my calcium is normal.
  Dr. House: We call him "Dr. Idiot."
  ("Informed Consent," House, M.D.)
• "There are cretins, there are cowards, there are rats who walk like men. And then there is Larry Patterson Jr."
  (Leonard Pitts, "The Lowest of the Low," Feb. 22, 2008)