These are the Words People Hate
Words People Hate – Here are some of the words that people do not like and the words that you should use to replace them.
Words are powerful tools for communication. A word can have different meanings while you can mean the same thing by using different words. However, there are certain words that most people prefer not to use because they hate them, here are some of them based on the article in Mental Floss.
Amazing
Because it is frequently used, for some people it does not sound good anymore. Overused words can be irritating. When describing a food, you can use these terms instead: golopshus, lummy, or tizzy-wizzy. For people you want to describe, you can use, kippy, formose, or pulchritudinous while boskidillums and fine as a cow turd stuck with primroses, can be generally used as an alternative for amazing.
Blog
It is a common term on the internet and the reason why people don’t like it is because it could sound like an insult such as “He’s such a blog!” Website can be a substitute and for a more formal option, you can say independent digital publication.
Boyfriend/girlfriend
These terms for significant others can be outdated because they reinforce the gender binary and they carry stereotypical connotations. Instead, you can use partner, leman (Middle English), or sprunny (18th-century).
Irregardless
It is considered as the incorrect offshoot of regardless which means “without regard.” However, this term has been existing for more than 200 years and most major dictionaries acknowledge this. Just use regardless or these terms: anyway, nevertheless, in any case, despite that.
Moist
The term that most people love to hate. When you are referring to weather, you can use humid and muggy. To describe food, especially cake, you can use weaky or squidgy.
Phlegm
It sounds disgusting, right? Instead of this term, you can say, mucus, sputum, and the more informal loogie. Other options are blathery and gleim.