List of "banished" words and phrases

Every year, Lake Superior State University, the BBC, the New York Times, Time magazine, and other institutions publish lists of overused words and phrases that they (or in the case of Time, their readers according to an online poll) would like to see banned, retired, and avoided. Listed below are some of their selections.

The lists

2016

  • so
  • conversation
  • problematic
  • stakeholder
  • price point
  • secret sauce
  • break the internet
  • walk it back
  • vape
  • physicality
  • manspreading
  • presser
  • giving me life

Source [1]

2015

  • bae
  • basic
  • bossy
  • cra-cra
  • curate/curated
  • disrupt
  • enhanced interrogation
  • feminist[2]
  • foodie
  • friend-raising
  • hack
  • I can't even
  • influencer
  • kale
  • literally
  • -nation
  • obvi
  • polar vortex
  • said no one ever
  • skill set
  • sorry not sorry
  • takeaway
  • turnt
  • yaaasssss

Source [3][4]

2014

  • absolutely
  • adversity
  • anyway (adv. conj.)
  • -ageddon
  • fan base
  • #hashtag
  • hipster
  • iconic
  • intellectually bankrupt
  • look...
  • mister mom
  • morally bankrupt
  • Obamacare
  • on steroids
  • passion
  • -pocalypse
  • selfie
  • so... (conj.)
  • t-bone
  • twittersphere

Source [5][6]

2013

  • 24/7
  • artisan
  • best practices
  • boneless wings
  • brand
  • bucket list
  • double down
  • end of the day
  • fiscal cliff
  • gluten-free
  • guru
  • job creators/creation
  • kick the can down the road
  • passion/passionate
  • spoiler alert
  • superfood
  • trending
  • whatever
  • world-class

Source [7][8]

2012

  • amazing
  • baby bump
  • blowback
  • boss
  • bro-
  • epic
  • ginormous
  • #hashtag
  • LOL/OMG/WTF
  • man cave
  • netizen
  • occupy
  • pet parent
  • sexting
  • shared sacrifice
  • thank you in advance
  • trickeration
  • win the future

Source [9][10]

2011

  • aha-moment
  • the American people
  • back story
  • bff
  • creative
  • effective
  • epic
  • extensive experience
  • facebook as verb
  • fail
  • google as verb
  • I'm just sayin'
  • live life to the fullest
  • mama grizzlies
  • man up
  • motivated
  • organizational
  • refudiate
  • track record
  • viral
  • wow factor

Source [11][12]

2010

  • aporkalypse
  • app
  • birther
  • bromance
  • chillaxin'
  • conflict minerals
  • czar
  • friend as a verb
  • Great Recession
  • I'mma let you finish
  • in these economic times
  • meep
  • Obama-
  • sexting
  • shovel-ready
  • stimulus
  • teachable moment
  • too big to fail
  • toxic assets
  • transparent/transparency
  • tweet

Source [13][14]

2009

  • bailout
  • carbon footprint
  • carbon offset
  • desperate search
  • exit strategy
  • First Dude
  • game changer
  • green
  • green shoots
  • historic opportunity
  • icon/iconic
  • it's that time of the year again
  • maverick
  • -monkey
  • new normal
  • not so much
  • staycation
  • unprecedented
  • Wall/Main Street
  • winner of x nominations

Source [15][16]

2008

  • <3
  • authored
  • back in the day
  • Black Friday
  • decimate
  • emotional x
  • give back
  • it is what it is
  • makes x pop
  • organic
  • perfect storm
  • post-9/11
  • random
  • surge
  • sweet
  • truthiness
  • under the bus
  • waterboarding
  • webinar
  • wordsmith/ing
  • x is the new y

Source [17]

Banned more than once, still at large

ask for it by name (1999, 2000), awesome (1984, 2007), basically (1984, 1986, 1993), the bottom line (1979, 1992), classic (1982, 1989), enclosed please find (1985, 1989), exact same (1981, 1990), first time ever (1982, 1983), if you will (1984, 1991), incidences (1988, 1993), irregardless (1979, 1988), live audience (1983, 1987, 1990), myself (1990, 1991), on a roll (1984, 1988), ongoing (1984, 1986, 1993), parenting (1978, 1991), passion/passionate (2013, 2014), proactive (1991, 1993), very unique (1983, 2002), viable alternative (1979, 1992), world class (1982, 1993), yuh know (1978, 1979)[18]

See also

Notes & references

  1. "‘Manspreading,’ ‘Price Point,’ ‘Stakeholder’ on University’s List of ‘Banished’ Words for 2016 - ABC News". ABC News. 31 December 2015. Retrieved 2 January 2016.
  2. "TIME apologizes for including 'feminist' in poll of words to ban". PBS. 2014-11-17. Retrieved 2015-02-05.
  3. "Lake Superior State University's 40th Annual List of Banished Words". Lake Superior State University. Retrieved 2015-02-05.
  4. "Which Word Should Be Banned in 2015?". Time Magazine. Retrieved 2015-02-05.
  5. "2014 List of Banished Words". Lake Superior State University. Retrieved 2014-01-17.
  6. "20 of 2013's most overused words". BBC. 2014-01-01. Retrieved 2014-01-18.
  7. "2013 List of Banished Words". Lake Superior State University. Retrieved 2014-01-17.
  8. "Words for the Dumpster". New York Times. 2013-12-28. Retrieved 2014-01-18.
  9. "2012 List of Banished Words". Lake Superior State University. Retrieved 2014-01-17.
  10. "Poll: What word should be banished in 2012?". Time. 2012-01-11. Retrieved 2014-01-18.
  11. "2011 List of Banished Words". Lake Superior State University. Retrieved 2014-01-17.
  12. "The Most Over-used Business Buzzwords of 2011". Forbes. 2011-12-13. Retrieved 2014-01-18.
  13. "2010 List of Banished Words". Lake Superior State University. Retrieved 2014-01-17.
  14. "The Buzzwords of 2009". New York Times. 2009-12-19. Retrieved 2014-01-18.
  15. "2009 List of Banished Words". Lake Superior State University. Retrieved 2014-01-18.
  16. "'New Normal' Tops 2009 List of Overused Phrases". Bloomberg. 2009-12-22. Retrieved 2014-01-18.
  17. "2008 List of Banished Words". Lake Superior State University. Retrieved 2014-01-18.
  18. "Complete List of Banished Words". Lake Superior State University. Retrieved 2014-01-18.
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