This is one of the more absurd notions that people have about language: that the mere dislike of a word invalidates its very existence. You’d never see that logic deployed effectively anywhere else in the real world. [Ed. note: The White House is not the real world.] I hate heat, ...
) Ground of objection, dislike, difference, or hostility; cause of dispute or contest; occasion of altercation. Quarrel (n.) Earnest desire or longing. Quarreled (imp. & p. p.) of Quarrel Quarrelled () of Quarrel Quarreling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Quarrel Quarrelling () of Quarrel ...
“In OE., as in all the other early Teut. langs., exc. Scandinavian, this word is the most comprehensive adjectival expression of disapproval, dislike or disparagement” [OED]. Evil was the word the Anglo-Saxons used where we would use bad, cruel, unskillful, defective (adj.), or har...