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Word: critcism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...article, Frederick argued that "like" is particularly effective for dulling harsh critcism. One can say, for example, "May dad is, like, an anal retentive psycho." Such a phrase means that the person's father is not exactly an anal-retentive psycho, but he is like an anal-retentive psycho. Frederick wrote...

Author: By Ann M.imes, | Title: Student Claims 'Like' Is Linguistic Freedom | 3/11/1993 | See Source »

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