Down with Cute! Up with Vocabulary!

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I recently read a student essay that brought me much amusement:

If there's one word that deserves to be hauled into the back alley and dismembered letter by letter, it's CUTE. Just looking at the word brings up images of pink, frilly dresses; Veggie Tales; and helpess puppies. And the word brings up my breakfast. But why do I want to deface pictures of babies sitting in flowers? Why do I want to smash Precious Moments figurines into smithereens? And why do I want to put big black X's over stylized hearts?
For as long as I can remember, cute has inspired nothing in me but contempt. It's a cop-out descriptor. Whenever I hear it, I think, "What? Can you find no better adjective? With so many options, how could you choose cute?" Because cute is used so often and so carelessly; it means so little.
"Your shirt is sooo cute!"
"They make such a cute couple!"
"What a cute idea!"
Soon we'll be calling Jesse Ventura cute, or Fidel Castro, or nuclear warfare. Just recently I heard a girl squeal about a plain-faced education prof,"Oh, Dr. O'Reilly is so cute!" Get me a bucket so I can throw up. Cutely, of course.

I personally use the word rarely; I prefer adjectives like putrifying, acrid and deplorable. Though I think its true that vocabulary has been reduced to pop-words like: hot, cool, cute, *a'yo... it's really all rather unimaginative.

So in response I say;
"Goodbye thesaruas.com - hellooo Easy-Speak."