Word of the Day: invective

The word invective has appeared in 64 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Feb. 15 in “The Parking Lot Frisbee Game That Started in 1968 Is Still Going Strong” by David Waldstein. The article is about Ultimate, a sport that’s “essentially football with a Frisbee and no tackling”:

Ultimate largely rejects commercialism, and though it embraces competition and athleticism, an encouraging word to an opponent is far more common than ill-tempered invective. But it’s no hippie sport.

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