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Got mulct?

I'll need more time to whip up the next few posts, but in the meantime I thought I'd tide you over with some words I stumbled upon in a case I was reading yesterday:

...to mulct a necessitous borrower.

The rest of the sentence wasn't much better than this end part either, having dragged on and on for several lines before reaching this lexicological climax. I think the case was ultimately decided in favor of the borrower, although with writing like this it's kind of hard to keep score...

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Mike:

You may be the first person ever to use the phrase "lexicological climax."

Obviously that suggests my fitness to be a judge.

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