Our List of Dirty, Naughty, Obscene, and Otherwise Bad Words

With millions of images in our library and billions of user-submitted keywords, we work hard at Shutterstock to make sure that bad words don't show up in places they shouldn't. This repo contains a list of words that we use to filter results from our autocomplete server and recommendation engine.

Please add to it as you see fit (particularly in non-English languages) or use it to spice up your next game of Scrabble :)

Obvious warning: These lists contain material that many will find offensive. (But that's the point!)

Miscellaneous caveat: Clearly, what goes in these lists is subjective. In our case, the question we use is, "What wouldn't we want to suggest that people look at?" This of course varies between culture, language, and geographies, so in the end we just have to make our best guess.

Languages

Name	Code
Arabic	ar
Chinese	zh
Czech	cs
Danish	da
Dutch	nl
English	en
Esperanto	eo
Filipino	fil
Finnish	fi
French	fr
French (CA)	fr-CA-u-sd-caqc
German	de
Hindi	hi
Hungarian	hu
Italian	it
Japanese	ja
Kabyle	kab
Klingon	tlh
Korean	ko
Norwegian	no
Persian	fa
Polish	pl
Portuguese	pt
Russian	ru
Spanish	es
Swedish	sv
Thai	th
Turkish	tr

Install

You can add the list to your client side project using Bower.

$ bower install --save naughty-words

You can add the list to your Javascript project using NPM.

$ npm install --save naughty-words

Usage

Browser

In the browser you can use the json files directly with a get request:

<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-2.2.3.min.js"></script>
<script>
  var deutsche;
  $.getJSON("bower_components/naughty-words/de.json", function (deutsche) {
    console.log(deutsche);
  });
</script>

Node

You can require the json file directly.

var deutsche = require("naughty-words/de.json");
console.log(deutsche);

You can browse the languages by requiring the whole module.

var words = require("naughty-words");
console.log(words);
console.log(words.de);

See also the list of projects, documents, and organizations that use these lists.

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