After an exhaustive, if not squeamish, word hunt, the top notch team at Crackpot Press has put together this list of the worst words in the English language. Proceed with caution as these are some of the most stomach turning dazzlers of all. We suppose they could be used for dramatic effect if you were writing a story on sewer rates that you wanted to make especially creepy. If writing a love letter or instruction manual, I would say skip ‘em.

Try to never use these again. You’re welcome.

The words we hate are:

Bulletin
Colon (and yet we like semicolon)
Egg
Fester
Fondle
Foyer
Fuselage
Dermatologist
Geriatric
Girth
Groin
Hatchery
Hood
Incision
Loincloth
Module
Moist
Morsel
Mucus
Oily
Ointment
Packet
Panty and Panties
Parka
Pile
Psoriasis
Residue (worse when preceded by “moist”)
Rim
Saccharine
Salmon
Sinewy
Specimen
Succulent
Supple
Swab
Tendon
Toybox
Turgid
Tungsten
Underpants
Upholstery
Vulva

and, of course,

any adverb.

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