swear at
English
Verb
- (transitive, dated, colloquial) To be disagreeably incongruous with, especially in colour; to clash.
- 1885, Truth (volume 18, page 109)
- […] in several instances there was another and quite a different red in the gown, which “swore” at its relative on the parasol.
- 1978, Fanny Kemble, Eleanor Ransome, The Terrific Kemble: A Victorian Self-Portrait
- Coal-scuttle poke-bonnets, short and scanty skirts, huge splay feet arrayed in indescribable shoes and boots, colours which swore at each other - these were the outward and visible signs of the British fair of that day.
- 1885, Truth (volume 18, page 109)
- Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see swear, at.
- One protester was arrested after swearing at a police officer.
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