the worthless word for the day is: swingeing
[Brit] whopping, capital
/SWI njin/ or /SWIN jeen/
The lord chief justice then applied the only sentence that was available to him -- a sentence still passed occasionally today, and that has a beguiling charm to its language, despite the swingeing awfulness of its connotations. - Simon Winchester, The Professor and the Madman, A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
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