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/ka kol"euh jee, keuh-/, n.defectively produced speech; socially unacceptable diction.[1615-25; CACO- + -LOGY]
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cacology
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Cacology — Ca*col o*gy, n. [Gr. kako s bad + logy: cf. F. cacologie.] Bad speaking; bad choice or use of words. Buchanan. [1913 Webster] || … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
cacology — noun Poor diction or choice of words … Wiktionary
cacology — n. bad choice or use of words … English contemporary dictionary
cacology — ca·col·o·gy … English syllables
cacology — n. incorrect diction … Dictionary of difficult words
cacology — n. 1 bad choice of words. 2 bad pronunciation. Etymology: LL cacologia f. Gk kakologia vituperation f. kakos bad … Useful english dictionary
bad taste — Synonyms and related words: Babbittry, Gothicism, barbarism, barbarousness, bombasticness, bourgeois taste, cacology, cacophony, camp, campiness, clumsiness, coarseness, crudeness, cumbrousness, dysphemism, gracelessness, grossness, harshness,… … Moby Thesaurus
barbarism — Synonyms and related words: Gothicism, Irish bull, Neanderthalism, age of ignorance, animality, antiphrasis, bad taste, barbarity, barbarousness, benightedness, benightment, bestiality, bombasticness, brutality, brutishness, cacology, cacophony,… … Moby Thesaurus
cacophony — Synonyms and related words: Babel, Gothicism, agitation, atonalism, atonality, bad taste, barbarism, barbarousness, bedlam, bluster, bombasticness, brawl, broil, brouhaha, cacology, chaos, clinker, clumsiness, coarseness, commotion, confusion of… … Moby Thesaurus
coarseness — Synonyms and related words: Adam, Gothicism, animalism, animality, bad manners, bad taste, barbarism, barbarousness, baseness, beastliness, bestiality, bodily size, body, bombasticness, brutality, brutishness, bulk, cacology, cacophony,… … Moby Thesaurus
