What are some common (or uncommon, whatever) phrases/words/sentences etc in literature that makes you cringe?

>as if to
>"Could it be your hair, that felt like caramel"(thanks user)
>"..my love for you..."
Anything too edgy. Like "I'm 14 and full of angst"-edgy.

the day we switch the urges to copulate such roasties with the urge to destroy their faces, its the day well be free.

>>as if to
>mfw when I overuse that in my writing

If it is of any help I only wrote it because I myself overuse it.

>in and of itself
I hate reading it and I hate hearing it spoken

ugly words:

phantasmagoria
bemused
scintillating

>To-day
>afeard
Fucking Hardy

>the

The fact that

>old-timey
>like they had in the past
>remember this is all happening a long time ago

The above all make me cringe in historical fiction, which I pretty much loathe in the first place.

Most any adverb, especially in dialogue tags. "Gingerly" and "ruefully" especially make me cringe.

Why is she so pretty?

>hitherto
>alea iacta est
also this
be my gf?

Anything you have to declare to indicate something, which means you weren't writing well if you have to announce it.
>To be honest
>So in conclusion

when people use the phrase
>on the one hand
it should be
>on one hand

>to be DESU

dont look at me like that you beautiful maiden

"to be honest" also pisses me off because the implication is that the writer wasn't honest before that

there used to be the most attractive cutest most beautiful girl ever who worked with me and every time she talked to me (and it was a lot, she loved talking to me) i felt extremely unworthy

>Stretched his legs

>vast swathes

Facial symmetry and that thing they do with their eyeliner to make their eyes more rhombus-shaped

havent heard that word since 9th grade

>the reason why...
In my language (Dutch) "the reason why..." (de reden waarom) would be objectively false, but in English it seems to be accepted.

In my ears it's still better to say: "the reason this is the case is that [reason]" and definitely not: "the reason this is the case is because [reason]". Thoughts from native English speakers?

>the reason why [x] is [y]
and
>the reason this is the case is because [reason]
definitely sound correct. Also
>Ik ben een draak

'is that' and 'is because' both seem good to me

>would love to give her some money
off yourself

kek good bait
looks like you already got a live one!

>gf
if you can pay for my SRS than sure. shit's expensive though.

>whatnot
>thereafter
>thot
>whomst
>methinks

You're just reading bad historical fiction if it's written like that

I love you
>tfw no gf

Rhombus

Winged eyeliner makes me rock hard even though it's a classic red flag

>if only
>my god
>tender

who's she?

>Ah!
>Oh!

Insufferable in poetry.

>>methinks
this one really grinds my gears

pls sauce i could die tonight

When authors pretend they're thinking on the page
>it was like this, or maybe like that, or maybe like something that wasn't quite this or that but something else entirely.
just spit it out motherfucker i don't have time for your SHIT

i would drag my dick over a mile of broken glass just to hear her fart into my voice mail.

this

>the

Her instagram is closed
instagram.com/die.freeman/

she is a cute

you are only delving into the red flag loving territory

try loving chubby women with dyed hair

STOP POSTING FUCKING MINXES ON MY BOARD REEE. I'VE OPENED THE OP PIC LIKE 40 TIMES ALREADY. I CAN'T HELP MYSELF.

well, tell her to reopen it. we want more.

Here, have a replacement
instagram.com/ella.freya

actually

She’s cute but I donno if I’m autistic or what but I’m so disgusted by vanity, girls who have a big social media presence or at least a ton of selfies is a weird turn off

Be gone thot

>In the long run
I disliked Stoner, and that put the nail in the coffin when Williams used it right at the end

Remember when people remembered the difference between bait and simple jokes?
Remember when everyone wasn't so fucking autistic?

Yah, she need to cover in make up exclusive to do selfies.
Beauty is power.
youtube.com/watch?v=7Nx0G66ClyE&feature=youtu.be

'Most any' is a phrase I cannot stand.

>wheretofore

have you been reading my complaints about this on other threads and boards? regardless thanks for pointing it out and keep fighting the good fight user

getitwriteonline.com/archive/072303reasonbecause.htm

>all of a sudden

anytime they use an uncommon phrase more than once. an example is
>...but the opposite is true.
I thought. OK, this is a fine phrase. But then they used it like 7 or 8 times in the rest of the book. totally ruined it

I think the first case, while redundant, is accepted as proper language, whereas the second, though still understandable, would not be formally accepted because in a strictly logical sense its meaning differs from what is actually trying to be conveyed.

kek

But user, Anki is free

>why use three words when you could use eight

unironically this

Beauty

A Russian girl.

It's a secret between he and I

what do flash cards have to do with sex changes??

>misogynistic

nah, i don't think so, just keep your cool. her beauty will pass like everything else

>’For what was...’
Urks me

And then you never asked her out? Thought so.

as well as
WHAT CAN I USE INSTEAD
I DON'T MEAN "ALSO", but, "AS GOOD AS", which sounds worse.

having a vagoo.

>as many as...
>no less than...

The problem is that it sounds too pretentious in english, but it's a useful phrase

>try loving chubby women
No thanks

>and butt sew

>cute

vaguely sexual

actually the word vague and vaguely

>fondled her breasts

lugubrious

Actually I did date one like that. She didn't have daddy issues which was a huge disappointment and as soon as we became exclusive she began to gain weight. She went from chubby to straight up fat in a couple months, I peaced out

SRS joke
Sex Reassignment Surgery
Spaced Repetition System

>to and fro
>Betwixt
>Any Latin phrase (sensu: sensu stricto)

I've had enough.

Actually, I made them all up. And you fell for it. Ahhhhh.

Emperor's old clothes.

Disgust with adverbs is the mark of a patricion

Latin phrases are very masturbatory and sophistic. Whoever uses them in a book that isn't about Latin - or in Latin - is well on the autism spectrum.

Patrician*