ITT: Words you hate and words you love Love: >recalcitrant

They don't have to be long.
"twig" is a fantastic word.
"mulch" embodies its meaning very well.
"inveigle' and "seraglio" just sound cool.

>>7718036
Agree with your thoughts OP, especially pulchritude.

Love
Shmuck
greatness surely self-evident

Lugubrious
a word I find hilarious, a way of saying sad so overwrought it can only be comedic

Malevolence
downright lascivious tongue and lip action (Lascivious is another one I like too)

Marooned
A howl of a word best expressed by the dog Mundo Cani

Sarcophagus
A word that rings hollow, and perhaps foreboding, at least in my mind if not the ear

Orangutang
Orangutan seems a sad echo of the jolliness of Orangutang, so Orangutang is how I say it

Indubitably-
my love stems from a giant undead bug saying it in Warcraft 3 but I like the way the syllables roll out one after another

Pareidolia, Personification, Anthropomorphize
The words less so, the meanings, very much so

Hop
almost onomatopoeia, but not quite

Hate
Onomatopoeia- can't spell it

Noisome- etymology be damned, this should have to do with sound

Ogle- I never hear it, so I always mispronounce it if I try to say it myself, and forget how to say it by the time comes to say it again. Oggle? Oh-gle?

I hate the word "pretentious" because I see it used very often in many different contexts. It's developed a very vague meaning over time and is often just a placeholder for "I don't like this".

>>7719888
I know what you mean. Seems like it's a poor way of communicating the specific details of the feeling 'I don't like this,' a dismissal rather than an actual opinion.