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Results tagged with epithet-requests
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user 5558
Requests for nouns, adjectives, or phrases that answer questions of the form “What do you call a person who . . . ?” Although these are not necessarily negative, they are often used pejoratively as “words that wound” against persons or acts one disapproves of, as in “racial epithets”.
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Single-word synonym for a “pedantic rule-follower”?
A jobsworth is “someone who always obeys the rules of their job exactly, even when it would be more sensible not to”.
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