I see this word in writing and in speech a couple of dozen times a day, sometime twice in the same paragraph. It is an adjective that usually adds nothing to the statement being made. It has become a crutch, a cliche as overused as describing any random event as “surreal.”
Please stop using it. Thank you.
This has been today’s rant. Copies available on written request.
I’ll nominate Amazing. Not everything is amazing. Not everyone is amazed by the same thing. In fact, when someone says Amazing, my first reaction is to not be amazed. As you go thru your day, listen to how many times this word appears. The word is overused.
The “people playing cards” and the “too much…” links give me pictures of kittens.
I have a Chrome Extension called Make America Kittens Again. It changes pictures of a certain person to pictures of kittens. Much better to look at.
And at a recent card game, I corrected others… I told them that the term is Biden now.