we need to bring back words like wastrel, rogue, ruffian, ne’er-do-well. there is an epidemic of miscreants doing shenanigans and we have lost the vocabulary to describe them.
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I’m nostalgic for the Sex Pistols on Bill Grundy. 49 years isn’t quite enough time to be archaic, but “What a fucking rotter!” has a satisfying Dickensian flavour.
You can do what English traditionally does when at loss. Get some other langugae drunk, drag it into a dark alley, bash it over the head, and rifle its pockets for any loose vocabulary.
Yes! Also, cad, nincompoop, wretch, dolt, jackanape, numbskull, twit, etc. I love this because not only would these words insult MAGA, but also would force them to expand their vocabulary.
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Malcontent
Rake
Ragamuffin
Coistrils, Lidderons, Fustilarians, Blackguards, Nithings, and Scapegraces?
hooligan
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Because it's simple and direct. No mistake who you're talking about.
Sure, it's obscene, but the person described as such is that, too.
And soon, mass murderer.
Scofflaw.
I was berated for “using words others didn’t know,” and I was told to “dumb down” my presentations.
“Dumbing down” is a malignant problem at the root of why we’re at this moment in our history.
Even Tina Fey couldn’t save it.
Misfits
Morons
Miscreants
Malcontents
Money vampires