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Better Ways to Say "This Sucks"

Your day is the worst. Your vocabulary is the best.

11 Words for Miserly People

We won't be stingy with them

11 Words for People Who Are Bad At What They Do

What to call the inept, incompetent, and inferior

10 Words for Other People's Children

Brats, ankle biters, and other holy terrors

Ye Olde Nincompoop

Old-fashioned ways to say "stupid"

8 More Words for Inept People

We don't doubt they're trying their very best.

9 Words for Impostors

Fakes, fraudsters, charlatans and more

'Snotter', 'Groak', and 6 More Words Associated with Bad Habits

Could you please not do that?

12 Political Putdowns

For When 'Lowdown Crook' Isn't Specific Enough

A Handy Guide to Ruffians, Rapscallions, Cads & More

22 charming words for nasty people

Rare and Amusing Insults, Volume 2

Sometimes a 'cacafuego' can be a real 'slubberdegullion'

'Dunderhead' and Other ‘Nicer’ Ways to Say Stupid

As illustrated by some very smart pups

11 Obscure Words for Thieves

Yeggs, jackrollers, footpads, and more

'Ignoramuses' or 'Ignorami'?

Notes on a plural

14 Airy, Puffy Words for Windy Speech

Swell words for words lacking substance.

Snitches Get Synonyms

7 words for talking out of turn

5 Words for Clumsy People

Just watch your step on the way in.

8 Insults Made Up of a Noun and a Verb

A collection of obscure put-downs

'Hector', 'Myrmidon', and 7 More Ways to Ruin Your Good Name

Sometimes you don't want your name to live forever

Thomas Nashe's 8 Kinds of Drunkards

Because English is full of words for drunk people

7 Cute Words for Curmudgeons

Surly but sweet

Why Do We Call a Dangerous Person a 'Loose Cannon'?

Blame Teddy Roosevelt

How 'Skeevy' Became a Word

Our skeeviest article

9 Insults That Make the Presidential Campaign Seem Civilized

Think campaign rhetoric is getting nastier?
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