A great many words bring along not only their meanings but extra weight, loads of judgment, or bias that plays upon the emotions instead of helping with understanding. These words deserve careful handling and minding. They are loaded.
In casual conversation, emotional stuffing is lent to words by inflection and gesture: the innocent phrase, "Thanks a lot," is frequently a vehicle for heaping servings of irritation. loaded word - thanks a lot.
"Never," Aldous Huxley said, "have misused words—those hideously efficient tools of all the tyrants, warmongers, persecutors and heresy hunters—been so widely and disastrously influential."
"Never," Aldous Huxley said, "have misused words—those hideously efficient tools of all the tyrants, warmongers, persecutors and heresy hunters—been so widely and disastrously influential."
by rumormill February 14, 2008
by ant-tony November 28, 2009
The phenomenon of a particular message or recommendation being passed from an individual to his/her contacts through the internet.
All it took was a little word-of-mouse and the next thing Henry knew his "catsuit with knobs" clip was on boing-boing. He felt like it was the lowest point in his life. That was until he switched on the evening news.
by Dananjay Anandan January 19, 2006
The Longest Word is over 100,000 letters long and takes over 3 hours to prounce if pronouced correctly. If you want to know what it looks and how it is spelled, look it up on google because I'm not going to spend hours and hours just to write 1 damn word.
P.S - It is not an official word in the dictionary.
P.S - It is not an official word in the dictionary.
by any other person November 04, 2016
I couldn't get a word in edgewise. She kept talking to me about her shoes, purse, and how her best friend just got dumped. I am a word receptacle.
by archlich November 06, 2009
by NuttyJ January 02, 2008
by TerraByt3 June 15, 2021