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Words You Dislike That Are Used Often

Are there words that you read or hear often that you really dislike? I do not care for using "Like" in every sentence.

Often Used That Dislike Words

Since Donald Trump became president I'm particularly annoyed about hearing the word "Tremendous" which only reminds me of him and that's not particularly tremendous in itself.

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The one that really, like, gets me going is the tremendous term 'literally'

People use it too often, and rarely use it correctly.

Its gotten so bad that some dictionaries are starting to add "In a figurative sense" as an alternate definition, the opposite of its usual definition.

Edited: daishain on 19th Oct, 2017 - 8:07pm