satiate
If you don't see what's so horrible about this word, try copy editing marketing pieces for a couple of years. Right around the one-thousandth time you read "our menu will satiate your every culinary desire," you, too, will want to grab the copywriter by the shoulders and yell: "How about 'satisfy,' boy? What's wrong with 'satisfy'?"
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LOL! Why do they insist on choosing the obscure word over the simple one? Drives me crazy! I was able to talk someone out of using "parse" today. Like nobody knows what the F you're talking about!
"Parse" can be okay ... sometimes. But not usually in the middle of a marketing piece. Good job on talking him/her out of it.
A very satiating tale.
Yeah it didn't make sense the way it was being used, but I guess someone over in Europe had originally written it
As Steve Martin once said: It's like those French people have a different word for EVERYTHING.
Satiate is definitely a word I will utilize. ;)
Ah, "utlize."
: )
Such a perfectly okay word, so NOT okay in anything I've ever copy edited.
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