Daily Sentence

Each day the wordsmiths at Dictionary.com select one word to be the Word of the Day. But a word without a sentence is like a wingnut without a bolt—useless. Here, we give these words a proper home, and some dignity. Woof!
Jul 21
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Supernumerary

Like, I totally can’t believe my teacher, Mrs. Rouye, the septuagenarian martinet I was telling you about, had the gall, considering the way she drones on and on, to criticize me, with no accounting for personal style, for supernumerary use of commas, when she said herself, right there on the syllabus, that these assignments were informal, and wouldn’t be marked for grammar, that she-bitch,.