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Re: Words that need to be used far more often
Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2017 4:00 pm
by whatwouldcooleydo?
opprobrium
Re: Words that need to be used far more often
Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2017 6:08 am
by Swamp
beantownbubba wrote:I would like to live in a country in which unseemly could resume it's place as an elegant, perfectly calibrated descriptor of the peccadilloes of public figures instead of being a quaint almost antiquated adjective wholly inadequate to the task of describing everything from the haste of rewriting the tax code in 30 secret days to walking around naked in front of women you work with to using racial code words as a tool of governance to justifying sexual abuse of minors by referring to biblical "authority." Come to think of it, the same applies to peccadilloes.
You beat me to it.
Re: Words that need to be used far more often
Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2017 8:53 am
by tinnitus photography
whatwouldcooleydo? wrote:opprobrium
excellent, short-lived '90s fanzine out of NZ.
Re: Words that need to be used far more often
Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2017 5:26 pm
by whatwouldcooleydo?
hardscrabble
Re: Words that need to be used far more often
Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2017 4:02 pm
by whatwouldcooleydo?
gadfly
Re: Words that need to be used far more often
Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2017 4:54 pm
by Slipkid42
tommyrot
Re: Words that need to be used far more often
Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2017 5:00 pm
by Slipkid42
mollycoddle
Re: Words that need to be used far more often
Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2017 5:02 pm
by Slipkid42
gumption
Re: Words that need to be used far more often
Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2017 5:13 pm
by Slipkid42
riff-raff
Re: Words that need to be used far more often
Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2017 3:36 pm
by whatwouldcooleydo?
guillotine
Re: Words that need to be used far more often
Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2017 5:40 pm
by beantownbubba
whatwouldcooleydo? wrote:guillotine
That's a different category altogether: Things that need to be used more often.
Re: Words that need to be used far more often
Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2017 5:47 pm
by whatwouldcooleydo?
beantownbubba wrote:whatwouldcooleydo? wrote:guillotine
That's a different category altogether: Things that need to be used more often.
that was inherent in what I said: the word would be used more often because the thing is used more often
Re: Words that need to be used far more often
Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2017 8:33 am
by tinnitus photography
palimpsest
Re: Words that need to be used far more often
Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2017 4:55 pm
by whatwouldcooleydo?
Dionysian
Re: Words that need to be used far more often
Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2017 6:14 pm
by Zip City
Nuance
Re: Words that need to be used far more often
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2017 12:31 am
by Beaverdam
Comorbidity
Re: Words that need to be used far more often
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2017 11:07 am
by beantownbubba
Zip City wrote:Nuance
LOL, I'd put that one guillotine: things that need to be used more often, along w/ its cousin, subtlety.
Beaverdam wrote:Comorbidity
You got me there. Had to look it up. I'd say that's yet another category: things we need less of.
Re: Words that need to be used far more often
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2017 12:23 pm
by John A Arkansawyer
beantownbubba wrote:Zip City wrote:Nuance
LOL, I'd put that one guillotine: things that need to be used more often, along w/ its cousin, subtlety.
Beaverdam wrote:Comorbidity
You got me there. Had to look it up. I'd say that's yet another category: things we need less of.
Oh, come on. One more word for the trifecta:
- Guillotine
- Your message here
- Comorbidity
I think that's the order to put them in. If only I had the right message.
Re: Words that need to be used far more often
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2017 1:56 pm
by whatwouldcooleydo?
Beaverdam wrote:Comorbidity
I think Bill is waiting in line as we speak to get on the rail for Comorbidity
Re: Words that need to be used far more often
Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2017 11:49 am
by tinnitus photography
whatwouldcooleydo? wrote:Beaverdam wrote:Comorbidity
I think Bill is waiting in line as we speak to get on the rail for Comorbidity
Re: Words that need to be used far more often
Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2017 1:28 pm
by Beaverdam
whatwouldcooleydo? wrote:Beaverdam wrote:Comorbidity
I think Bill is waiting in line as we speak to get on the rail for Comorbidity
Being on the rail and hangovers are comorbid!
Re: Words that need to be used far more often
Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2017 10:21 pm
by whatwouldcooleydo?
Vichy
Re: Words that need to be used far more often
Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2017 10:52 am
by tinnitus photography
“Pats beat Steelers!”
Re: Words that need to be used far more often
Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2017 1:45 pm
by 211poundsofpork
tinnitus photography wrote:“Pats beat Steelers!”
This should be law, Tinnitus! Amen!
Re: Words that need to be used far more often
Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2017 10:17 pm
by whatwouldcooleydo?
Unctuous
Re: Words that need to be used far more often
Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2018 1:41 pm
by whatwouldcooleydo?
Ceausescu
Re: Words that need to be used far more often
Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2018 9:27 pm
by Flea
Oleaginous
Re: Words that need to be used far more often
Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 10:12 am
by tinnitus photography
obsequious
Re: Words that need to be used far more often
Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2018 8:49 pm
by whatwouldcooleydo?
codswallop
Re: Words that need to be used far more often
Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2018 10:04 pm
by tinnitus photography
Enervate