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re: "mawkish"

Posted by:	buskins 06:21 pm EDT 08/05/14
In reply to:	re: "mawkish" - MikeR 02:45 pm EDT 08/05/14

There are certain terms like "mawkish" and "mordant" and "gimlet-eyed" that nobody uses in American English anymore (if they ever did) except in criticism. It's like they're handed down from one generation of critics to another. I realize people are working on a deadline and sometimes you have to reach for a cliche when you don't have time to think, but it's especially glaring in this context where he uses a lame term to describe something lame. I don't know anyone who says "meh." I do own a "meh" t-shirt though that I got on sale from icanhascheezburger.com and whenever I wear it people ask me what "meh" is.

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