cacology

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  1. 1 . An evil speaking. Bailey, 1727.
  2. A bad choice of words in writing or speaking; also, vicious pronunciation. Debated with his customers, and pretended to correct their cacology, provincialisms, and other defects. Foote, in Jon Bee's Samuel Foote.

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  1. = French cacologie, from Greek κακολογία, evil-speaking, abuse, vituperation, from κακολόγος, speaking evil, slanderous, from κακός, bad, + λέγειν, speak. The rhetorical sense is modern.
 

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