Anecdotard: A word I must use more often. Your fave under-used words?

I like persnickety alot.

I suspect my boss recently learned the word charrette since he’s been driving it into the ground just lately.

I recall an old SNL fake PSA promoting uvula health. The tagline was "It’ll behoove ya to care for your uvula "

been there, quoted that ;-D

Corybantic.
Loquacious.
Epicaricacy.
Panjandrum.
Caliginous.
Chiaroscuro.

I’m a fan of newer words like cromulent and enshittify.

Whenever possible, I like to put whilst into written communications. It just sounds classier.

Putrid is a word that one hopes not to have to use often, but if the situation calls for it, it’s at your service. Rancid also has a certain je ne sais quoi to it.

I’m a big fan of valitudinarian: basically, an obsessive hypochondriac who’s frequently annoyingly correct.

Thus, someone old is said to be in their anecdotage.

Foetid is my go-to in such situations.

I had occasion to use modicum recently, and had to explain what it meant.

I’m grateful to @Pleonast for introducing me to the underrated word pleonasm.

Callipygian is a word I don’t often get to use in daily conversation.

I say quotidian so often that its use has become mundane, routine, unremarkable even. So I may eschew it for a while.

I’ve heard that it treats consternation well.

Yet, on the infrequent occasion, the perfect word! :smiley:

There’s a car dealer named Bob Loquercio that advertises on local television and I always think loquacious when his ads play.

An uncommon word I like to use is “circumspect”.

Interesting. I would’ve used “littoral” or “vulpine” in a similar circumstance.

:smiley:

I believe that any word with the suffix “tard” is off limits in today’s realm of civility.

Well lots of dancers will have to find a new word for leotard

:point_right: :wink: @beckdawrek

Well, there goes mustard, along with custard and dastard and petard.

I never liked mustard