Refudiate

"Refudiate" -- a word coined by politician Sarah Palin in a cross between refute and repudiate -- also made the top 10, according to the annual Global Language Monitor survey.

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"Refudiate" - Adding this word to the English language simply because a part-time politician lacks a spell checker on her cell phone is an action that needs to be repudiated.

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A quick refresher: "Refudiate," which came into being via a Sarah Palin tweet, is used loosely to mean "reject."

Austerity or refudiate: Will the real word of the year please stand up? Melissa Bell 2010

And perhaps the Oxford English Dictionary wanted to show support for Palin's wordplay, since she did invoke William Shakespeare, the patron saint of English word creation, when critics derided her tweet: "Refudiate," "misunderestimate," "wee-wee'd up."

Austerity or refudiate: Will the real word of the year please stand up? Melissa Bell 2010

"Refudiate" * Now word of the year from Oxford American Dictionary. "Chilean coal miners"

Refudiate the top word of 2010? The good, the bad and the ridiculous from the global language survey Katie Rogers 2010

'Refudiate' this: Palin defends word-mangling malapropism

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Likening herself to Shakespeare, but still ignoring punctuation, she tweeted: '"Refudiate,"

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"Refudiate" is joined on this summer's list of top words by "inception" and "despicable," for which online searches jumped immediately as movies were released with those words in the titles.

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If Sarah Palin said "Refudiate" and it isn't in the dictionary, then you need to add it. it is obviously an accidental omission, and she brings to light a serious error in both the website and the published books.

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Likening herself to Shakespeare, but still ignoring punctuation, she tweeted: '"Refudiate,"

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