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Tom Swifty
A fetish for adverbs, usually in modifying speech. "'We'd better hurry,' said Tom Swifty." As Strunk and White say, an adverb is a leech sucking the strength from a verb. Whenever the tone is clear from the context or dialog, omit the adverb.
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