Scandalous Language
[Gasp!]
When I created this new section of Timeless & Timely earlier this year, one of the popular editions was Historical Words That Should be Revived.
People chortled over “twaddling” and “crapulous.” They sniggered at “snollygoster” and “cockalorum.” And they guffawed at “ultracredipdarian” and “shivviness.”
Saturday’s “Off the Clock” entry has tended toward language, and given that our topic this week was misrepresentation and chicanery, I thought it would be interesting to look at some of the vocabulary related to the scandalous.
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