oy-vey

Definitions

Forma verbal. Verb. [B1]

Examples

“They oy-veyed Ron’s [then] Baptist faith, almost as if knowing the more he tended to them, the more he would step out the shadows of a past many dared not reveal⟳.”

“For decades, Bill has inveighed against the indignity of being copy-edited, and I’ve oy-veyed against his ignorant and arrogant position that he and he alone can be the final arbiter of standards of the English language regarding how his words appear⟳ in print⟳: any editor who imposes, say⟳, the correct⟳ spelling of “affect⟳” or “effect” is, according to Bill, a phony authority relying solely on some imaginary BS convention that he is free to disregard with scorn.”

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