As we mentioned over at WordsIHate, these days everything from boogie boarding to buttholes can be called “awesome” (especially buttholes). And correspondingly, everything can also be called “stupid”. “Stupid” no longer means “stupid”, it just means bad. So now we don’t yell out “BAD BABY!” we shout, “STUPID BABY!” but the baby isn’t really dumb, she’s just a [...]
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Dilettante
Stop calling everybody hipsters. Some of them are really just dilettantes, and need to be called out. Dilettante, a beautiful word lifted straight from the Italian dilettante, once meant someone who loved music and the arts, but in the 18th century it took on a negative vibe, meaning someone who dabbles in art or music [...]
Feckless
Dictionary.com gives two definitions of “feckless”: ineffective; incompetent; futile: feckless attempts to repair the plumbing. having no sense of responsibility; indifferent; lazy. I’m more interested in the second definition, because I like CALLING someone feckless, especially to their face. It’s an insult! It’s like calling someone a child, except using a word a feckless person [...]
