I absolutely loath the use of “party” as a verb. Friends, amusing chatter, finger foods, music, dancing-these are the things that made life fun, but whenever I hear someone say “We’re gonna party this weekend,” I start mentally deducting IQ points.
I despise the word savour. I have no idea why, I just do. I also despise the word akimbo, because, again I have no idea why, it brings to mind the image of dirty, sockless feet in tennis shoes.
Restaurants around here always describe themseles as “eclectic”. I hate that word!!!
They want to sound trendy or new or something, it just turns me off now. I’m sure it’s a fine word, but it’s been blacklisted by me when every freakin’ restaurant in the world started whoring on it. Enough!
Dude. When a kid calls 42 yr old me, Dude, that’s just not right. I’m playing frisbee golf today, I bet I get it at least 6 times today.
Funny, we happened to pass by the town of Beveridge the other day. Mr Cazzle commented “Odd name for a town” and I said “Why is that”. I was thinking “Bev Ridge, Beverly Ridge”. Mr Cazzle said “You drink a beverage, you don’t live in it!” and the OTHER meaning hit me like a thunderbolt 
Consecutive
I hate it even more so when moronic television people (newsreaders, sports broadcasters) use it in the following sentence:
“…consecutively one after the other…”
or
“five times in a row one after the other, consecutively…”
Although I am guilty of using this word, I often cringe at the use of :
appropriate
e.g.
“That was not appropriate behavior.”
“That was not an appropriate thing to say.”
“It is not appropriate to stick your pencil into someone else’s eye.”
etc.
“Not appropriate” has become a euphemism for “undesirable” and it’s just a bunch of psychobabble.
I don’t know if these have been mentioned already
Paradigm
Proactive
In fact most corporate buzz words are annoying
I cringe when my mother-in-law uses the word
supper.
instead of dinner
But to make it even more annoying, she does not just refer to “supper” as dinner at home, which my parents used to do- she even talks about going out to fancy restsaruant to get “supper”! :mad:
For some reason, I also hate:
stocking, stockings
and the phrase:
stockinged feet for some reason makes me cringe.
Also “sixths”. Not only can I not say it, I have a hard time thinking the correct pronunciation.
I hate the words “loosen” and “unloosen” in that they mean the same thing but shouldn’t. Damn them to hell…
“luscious”
what a nasty word!
Can’t stand malignant but I guess it does have associations that add to its repugnancy.
BTW, flammable is a reall word and just means the same as inflammable. Druthers is also a real word and is part of the dialect I speak. But now that you mention it, I guess I really don’t like it either.
I don’t like the word furl. Unfurl, which means the same, is not as offensive.
Conglomerate I don’t like. Also, confluence.
Stain and any tense thereof (stained, staining)
What an ugly word. When I first heard of that band Staind, I shuddered in repulsion at their name. How could anyone give their group such a nauseating name. (Fortunately I have no desire to listen to their music.)
Edification.
Empower.
Genre.
Fistula.
Whenever anyone pronounces the word mature as “ma-toor”.
One time I heard someone on Antiques Roadshow say “This piece of from about circa 1900.”
So now I hate the word circa.
Er, this piece is from about circa 1900.
stink. I won’t even say it. I hate to even write it. It is awful and disgusting and I cringe every time I hear it. And it bothers me even more that it seems to be an acceptable alternative for “suck,” which is to me much less offensive.
**nubile.
obese.**
I find both these words highly unpleasant, both to speak and to write.
I also don’t like nuptials.
supposedly, but only when i hear it pronounced “supposably.”
quirky - just a dumb word, and will always be associated with Ally fucking McBeal in my mind
Actually, there are no words that I hate just on principle of how they sound. Even the clumsiest of words can be aurally appealing if weilded correctly.
Off topic, I despise my own irreversibly Valley Girl accent.
Mundane. I absolutely can’t stand it. I come here, and there it is: mundane pointless stuff I must share. It’s not the meaning that bugs me, I can dig. It’s the pronunciation. First of all, the word appears to me as the color maroon in my head. Thats one negative association. Also, the horrible combination of a deep “u” and “ane” gets me.
I waited a few minutes, read that, and as a result I want you all to know I’m not crazy. Not crazy!