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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI'm appalled at the overuse of the word "appalled"
Frankly, it's appalling. Can't people just use "cringe?"
True Dough
(26,800 posts)gulliver
(14,004 posts)😄
kimbutgar
(27,288 posts)So many words to describe this horrendous era we are experiencing!
lastlib
(28,334 posts)Frankly, with the current regime, I think the word is UNDERused. But I wish we could use it less, with the regime doing fewer things that are appalling
Wicked Blue
(8,917 posts)horrified, enraged, speechless, revolted, etc
There aren't enough words in the thesaurus to describe how I feel about the Orange Traitor
Haggard Celine
(17,838 posts)It's got "pall" in it. Maybe a good equivalent would be "mortified.". You don't hear that one too often.
"concerned" work for you? I'm concerned about the overuse of concerned myself.
madinmaryland
(65,741 posts)Faux pas
(16,396 posts)she is seriously useless.
DavidDvorkin
(20,603 posts)madinmaryland
(65,741 posts)jimmy the one
(2,813 posts)Incredible: ... or incredibly, which have no comparable value or meaning when used as adjective.
It is gaslighting, as if selling pots and pans and knives on the tv or internet - 'incredible prices, incredible bargains, incredible deals', and we know the cons therein. The root word being described is generally sufficient enough rather than adding a superfluous superlative. Exaggerating, sensationalizing, embellishing or transmogrifying.
We should remove incredibly and incredible from our vernacular.
'Thanks for having me': .. yuck, I cringe when I hear talking heads groveling before the altar of the talk show host. Why not start singing amazing grace at the same time - 'that saved a wretch like meeeee'.
Overgesticulation: ... some talking heads seem to think it is normal to start waving their hands all about when their heads start talking. Circular waves, hand chops upward, downward, finger points, fist thrusts, punches, spiral stair casing. Some of my favorites too, Bernie* about 90% of the time, Rachel and Nancy 70%.
Annoying and distracting, I want to listen to what they say, not watch them doing exercise stretches and kabuki theater.
* dU rules, must not insult democratic notables.