cacology
1Cacology — Ca*col o*gy, n. [Gr. kako s bad + logy: cf. F. cacologie.] Bad speaking; bad choice or use of words. Buchanan. [1913 Webster] || …
2cacology — /ka kol euh jee, keuh /, n. defectively produced speech; socially unacceptable diction. [1615 25; CACO + LOGY] * * * …
3cacology — noun Poor diction or choice of words …
4cacology — n. bad choice or use of words …
5cacology — ca·col·o·gy …
6cacology — n. incorrect diction …
7cacology — n. 1 bad choice of words. 2 bad pronunciation. Etymology: LL cacologia f. Gk kakologia vituperation f. kakos bad …
8bad taste — Synonyms and related words: Babbittry, Gothicism, barbarism, barbarousness, bombasticness, bourgeois taste, cacology, cacophony, camp, campiness, clumsiness, coarseness, crudeness, cumbrousness, dysphemism, gracelessness, grossness, harshness,… …
9barbarism — 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,… …
10cacophony — 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… …
