Words and phrases I don't like

Words

• Cohort

• Edgeland (a favourite of commodified nature writing, mentioning no names. See also Liminal)

• Esque (Anythingesque)

• Geodome (not a word)

• 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