The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 10 letter word VERNACULAR
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More clues leading to the result VERNACULAR
- Local artist, lord and clergyman retired
- Standard language strangely unclear, given brief change around
- Copper having youthful exterior essentially swearing in native tongue
- Bad language upset a Clun raver
- Perhaps French artist, Lord and clergyman retired
- The special talent of Londoners might be expressed thus: new city in old one’s native style
- Unravel oddly absorbing account, ending in your everyday language
- Common cure not available in any form — contained in deformed larva lacking blood type
- Jargon for Vergeltungswaffe: nuclear modification on a rocket head
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The straight part
We know that "Bad language" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case bad language = vernacular.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does VERNACULAR mean?
VERNACULAR noun- The language of a people or a national language.
- Everyday speech or dialect, including colloquialisms, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.
- Language unique to a particular group of people; jargon, argot.
- A language lacking standardization or a written form.
- Indigenous spoken language, as distinct from a literary or liturgical language such as Ecclesiastical Latin.
- Of or pertaining to everyday language, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.
- Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous.
- Of or related to local building materials and styles; not imported.
- Connected to a collective memory; not imported.