Worthless Word for the Day

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the worthless word for the day is: objurgatory

[L. objurgatorius] /ob JURG uh tor ee/
expressing (a harsh or violent) rebuke

""You did not head for your pretended creek," he
added, after dealing in some objurgatory remarks that
we do not deem it necessary to record, "but steered
for that bluff, where every soul on board would have
been drowned, had we gone ashore.""
- James Fenimore Cooper, The Pathfinder (1841)