To think sometimes people use words without fully understanding them?

Oops sorry I just put words up I did understand the meaning of.

The Daily Mail's use of the word "estranged" is one of the few that really annoys me. As in "celeb holidays with estranged husband"....

Warmongerer. Use in a sentence: A great many consider Benjamin Netanyahu to be a warmongerer based on his aggressive stance against Gaza.

Victimhood. Use in a sentence: Some people use a false sense of victimhood to attempt to claim the moral high ground while carrying out the same crimes they claim were perpetuated on them.

Why not just be honest and say this post is really about, but it is being derailed by people trying to answer the original title?

The number of young people who say 'generally' when they mean 'genuinely' makes my teeth itch 🤬

Yes!

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That's far too sensible a reply!
Thank you

You accuse the poster of ascribing intention, deny it, then do precisely what the PP said you were doing - using this post as an excuse to expound your views on the situation in the Middle East.
Rather transparent

🩷 Dickens fan here 🩷

Oh, OP, how disappointingly predictable!
Not interested in words others have suggested, just want to discuss those 'coincidentally' inflammatory words?

Fulsome, as in fulsome praise. It sounds like it should be good, but has Uriah-Heep like connotations of fawning, cloying hyperbole.

I don’t find it particularly confusing as the context usually makes the intended meaning clear. But I do find it annoying! Not as annoying as when someone uses “myself” instead of “me” but close.

Another pet peeve of mine is nauseous/nauseated. Something nauseous can make you feel nauseated but you can’t actually feel nauseous.

Likewise “execute” - it is the judicial (death) sentence that is carried out, or executed. Not the person.

Well if we’re being pedantic here — and it seems we are — “conflate” means to erroneously combine two ideas into one. It doesn’t create a whole new idea. It’s not so much like mixing up X and Y and thinking it is Z, more like mixing up X and Y and thinking it is XY.

I’ve never heard that “collide” only applies to two things that are both moving. Can you post a link to the definition?

American dictionaries define “electrocute” to include non-fatal injuries. I’m American so I’m used to that but it seems like Brits these days consume a lot of American TV shows, books, social media and the like so they may be picking it up that way.

How are these words used incorrectly?

It means very embarrassed. A lot of people use it to mean angry.

I’m pretty sure “110% effort” is intended as hyperbole.

You need to learn the meaning of genocide.

In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

1. Killing members of the group;
2. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
3. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
4. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
5. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group

As you know, the Israeli government have stated their intention to destroy Gaza and have killed members of the group, caused serious harm to the group and inflicted conditions calculated to bring about its destruction.

Nowhere does it mention numbers needed to qualify. Now don't pretend you don't know what it means because it's been explained a few times to you already and that would be disengenuous.

Majority dead are women and children. Combatants are they? Babies with skulls hollowed out? Fair game to you right?
This thread is a blatant dig at those horrified by what's happening at the hands of right wing nut jobs. Spare me the faux concern about the use of terminology.

Conflate: it doesn't mean to mix things up and think X is Y and that Y is X. It's to confuse two things into a separate thing, to think X and Y are Z.

Collide: as I understand it, for a collision to occur, both particles have to be in motion. Not sure if I have this wrong or if it's just that enough people get it wrong that the incorrect meaning has become accepted usage.

Electrocute: like decimate, electrocute has a specific meaning and it's that the shock recieved was lethal.

I frequently see these words used incorrectly.
Nonplussed
Bemused
Mortified
Momentarily

Ooh yes, your right that's a good one. 😉