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Squinch

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5. It nauseates me to see "bigly" becoming part of the lexicon. A stupid word from a stupid man

Reply to Motley13 (Reply #2)

Mon Mar 20, 2017, 04:41 PM

Mar 2017

that makes everything it's included in sound stupid. It's used so much as a joke that it's inches away from becoming accepted.

Obviouser may be wrong, but it doesn't make my scalp shrink.

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Is obviouser a word? [View all] gibraltar72 Mar 2017 OP

no Thomas Hurt Mar 2017 #1

bigly is, why not obviouser? Motley13 Mar 2017 #2

It nauseates me to see "bigly" becoming part of the lexicon. A stupid word from a stupid man Squinch Mar 2017 #5

It is if you need to reach that Triple Word Score blm Mar 2017 #3

It's a perfectly cromulent word. johnp3907 Mar 2017 #4