Well, my former English professor thought very and really were totally useless and we weren’t even allowed to use them in her class–in papers or in oral presentations.
However, my vote is for Betamax.
“Libido in Limbo- Legs akimbo
Never even ever read a word of Rimbaud”
Scrapping Foetus Off the Wheel- “Lust for Death”
And if it’s good enough for Jim Foetus (and since it rhymes with Rimbaud) it’s good enough for me.
I think a strong nomination goes for any of the special words for groups of animals, like, for example, bevy. A Bevy of Quail. I mean, fer chrissakes, why a special word? It’d be one thing if it was understood that since bevy only means a group of quails in particular, one could leave off “Of quail” altogether and just say “bevy” alone. Then it’d be like a verbal shortcut. But since no one says “bevy” by itself, but instead says “Bevy of quail” it’s a word whose sole purpose seems to be taking up space in my head and my dictionaries. Because let’s face it, “group” or “bunch” would do just as well, given that you always modify it with “Of quail” anyway.
It’s not just bevy. There are other wacko words that are like that, that designate a buncha animals together. They all get my vote, dagnabbit.
AND HE PUMPED THE WATER OUT AND PUSHED THE GOOD AIR IN
or something.
oh.
Heh, don’t go near this book, then.
There’s always floccinaucihihilipilification. It means “the act of estimating as worthless”. Not something that can be wielded in everyday conversation without getting blank stares.
furtive
“literally” - it has lost its true meaning and now is used as an intensifier.
Quote from a realtor: “I saw a house the other day that was literally a piece of sh*t.”
Whossamatter, you don’t like TV? You know almost everything you watch is shot in Beta, right?
and what’s friendlily? Misspelled?
[sub]Oh, how funny am I?[/sub]
I vote for meantime, basically, and utilize.
Hey, I use “floccinaucinihilipilification” in conversation all the time! Of course, people look at me funny, but hey! It’s useful!
Legs Akimbo was the name of the motiviational acting group-type thing from League of Gentlemen, wasn’t it?
Oh, and since I have had a long, brutal day at work, I move that we declare the word “Frappuccino” useless and eradicate it from the English language. In fact, let’s find the person who came up with it, along with the whole Starbucks marketing department, and …
Oh wait, I’m not in the Pit, am I? Um, nothing to see here, move along …
… the travelling theatre company?
Regardless
enjoyable
I think you’re thinking of The Greatest Show on Legs.
Urrrhh, useless words? Spirketting. Cribriform. Malacologist. Hapax legomenon. Coscinomancer. Noëtic. Supralapsarian…
:: loud doomph! as Steve is felled by Thorazine-tipped tranquilizer dart ::
How about “irregardless”. It wasn’t accepted as a real word for sometime, but in Encarta, and Merriam-Webster Collegiate it’s defined as “regardless”.
Bingo. 
There was a character in the comic strip The Circus of P.T. Bimbo (late 1960s) named “Legs Akimbo”. He was a contortionist. I always was annoyed by that, because I thought I came up with the name, and somebody else used it before I had a chance to.
“semidiameter” is a synonym for “radius”.
“superfluous”.
It’s surplus to requirements.
Why can’t we get rid of two of these three: Dutch, Holland and The Netherlands. Pick one to use for the country, people and language and give up the other two. For such a little country, you certainly have a lot of words for yourselves.
My vote would be for “just,” used as an adverb. It rarely adds anything to a written text, and can usually be omitted with no loss in meaning. As a noun it is a useful word, but the adverb form is over-used and usually redundant.
Oh God Nutmagnet-you mean “irregardless” is now ACCEPTABLE?
People will be able to utter that word and my cringing
and inner desire to inflict Stooges-like violence upon the
speaker will no longer be grammatically supportable?
MY WORST NIGHTMARE COME TRUE!
Oh-nominated useless word=paradigm.