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Word: mushmouth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...panelists often disagreed. Not about, meaning determination not to do something, puzzled Jacques Barzun, one of the panel's most frequent dissenters. He replied: "I could not have understood its intention or force without your explanation." Writer John Bainbridge called it "mushmouth talk." But Columnist William Zinsser insisted that it has "strength and precision; accept it gladly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Language: A Defense of Elegance | 8/22/1969 | See Source »

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