Word: jargonized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...white, church-going non-Communist like I ... would avoid ending up in the nude." JC, who tells about half the story in a stilted diary, is risibly riddled with middle-class hypocrisy. He believes in, and mouths at inappropriate moments, all the sociological doubletalk, cold war gobbledygook, and commercial jargon that he has ever heard...
...Bird Trend. A distinctive look that may take over once the T-bird roof has run its course is the convex curve from roof to rear bumper found this year on Chevrolet's new Corvette Sting Ray and Studebaker's red-hot Avanti. Detroit jargon calls this the "fastback"; it is actually a revival of a style of the 1940s...
...Latin for "foe,"' or Xegro jargon for a white person...
...20th century behavior back to its dark evolutionary beginnings, in language that is not only plainly comprehensible but richly poetic as well. In so doing, he has illuminated both the discoveries of the past and the confusions of the present. "Too often," says Eiseley, "a barbarous jargon separates the scientist from the rest of the world...
Author Gross writes a clumsy brand of English ("grizzly" for "grisly" is one of his more entertaining errors), but his book does suffering testees a service in exposing the statistical cheating and psychological fakery of their less scrupulous tormentors. Gross's attitude, in the jargon of the testers, is woefully low in "nurturance" (that is, he is unfriendly), and the reader, as he learns of the testers' nonsense, may feel his own nurturance running...