perhaps the most ironic word in the
English language. Few would guess that this awkward jumbling together of hard consonants means "physically
attractive." Anyone, whether or not they know its meaning, ought to feel offended, and possibly violated, when likened to this unequivocally ugly word or any of its variants. An exception would be sepulchritude, which refers to a supremely
destructive display of physical comeliness. Pulling off an act of sepulchritude is really awesome.