: Re: Less offensive words for 'sh*t' and 'f**k'? I don't want to use for 'sh*t' and 'f**k' in my work. What else can I use that gives similar meaning?

It depends why you don't want to use them.

If it's because of the intended audience, what works best for them? This will give you options like the "in universe" words others have mentioned or (as was common in children's comics) a string of normally unassociated characters (asterisks, exclamation marks etc.).

If it's because the narrator wants to express disapproval of something a character has said - a narrator with a strong character themselves - you could describe the words and let the reader figure them out. Umberto Eco did this nicely in The Name Of The Rose where the narrator (Adso of Melk) described William of Baskerville as using "a word in his own language" which "had an obscene hissing sound".

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