Bad words list

Words and phrases I don’t like.

Words

• Cohort
• Edgeland (a favourite of commodified nature writing, mentioning no names. See also Liminal)
• Geodome
• Hegemony (an old academic partner used it to put non-academics in their place)
• Liminal (this was top of the list before it grew and became alphabetical)
• Mindfulness (nonsense, and also westernised cultural appropriation)
• Nascent
• Novel (self-proclaimed, as in ‘a novel approach to…’, it never is)
• Ontology - see Hegemony
• Petrichor
• Tensegrity
• Verdant

Phrases/Other

• Bucket list
• De facto
• En route
• Genuine question
• Inflection point
• Living fossil
• Reasonable accommodations (surely a phrase coined by a neurotypical)
• Resin pour
• Supply chain attack

See Good words list