“Lovely”

No UANBU! I too am sick to the back teeth of every tiresome moaning Minnie being described as a “lovely lady”

Too many people with extremely restricted vocabularies?

Plus this modern need to be forever praising everyone that breathes for fear of missing someone out and bruising their egos.

What they wanted to say was

What a fabulous day out with our lovely WI ladies to The Kings Gallery and the Royal Mews - plus we were joined from a couple of ladies from xxxxxxxxxx WI too, despite not having invited them
A superb day out with lots of lovely chats over wishy-washy tea and coffee getting to know one another a little better than I wanted😍 and two fabulous exhibitions that we all really enjoyed 🎉
Huge thanks to lovely xxxxx from xxxxxx Coaches for getting us there safely despite driving like a maniac, and huge thanks to all the lovely ladies on the trip

Lovely thread ✨️

I think it is like referring to grumpy people as "a character".

What about ‘National Treasure’ often attributed to some obscure personality?

Well, I had a lovely walk up the road today and bought some lovely flowers. A lovely man then caught my eye, so I gave him a lovely smile and a naughty but lovely wink. All in all, a lovely morning.

Oh I agree with you. It’s become a very noticeable habit hasn’t it?

Everything I type "lovely" on my phone, my finger slips and hits the "i" key, so my messages read:
"I had a lively time with a lively group of ladies doing lots of lively things."
The mind boggles! 😃

Not just lovely as an adjective but as a personal pronoun - people in shops seem to call me ‘lovely’ all the time eg “Thank you lovely.”

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Everything I type "lovely" on my phone, my finger slips and hits the "i" key, so my messages read:
"I had a lively time with a lively group of ladies doing lots of lively things."
The mind boggles! 😃

I have that as well!

I use lovely a lot.

I expect I have a limited vocabulary, because I can't think of many other words, which are true, anyway.

I'd sound like a simp.

There is a fashion in language as in everything else.

Remember our school-days (late 1960s) when everything was "fab"? Then "fantastic", "groovy" and more recently "awesome".

"Lovely" instead of "nice" will go the way of all the others. It is harder to predict what the new term will be.

Wagwan, Gs,

It was proper lit today at the Womens Institute, as we had the G.O.A.T giving us chat, innit?

I think there are worse words to use, ‘amazing’ for instance. Whenever I talk to an estate agent on the phone these days - I have to because we are moving house- they almost always respond to everything I say with amazing. But I am just talking about viewings fir our house which isn’t that amazing when you think about it.

Smashing should make a comeback, I think

It drives me nuts when people keep answering with perfect. My hairdresser refers to everything as perfect! Agghhh!

A step up from the ubiquitous ' nice' though.

What would you use instead of nice, though?

MissAdventure

What would you use instead of nice, though?

Lovely?

I seem to remember being told to vary my adjectives in English lessons 60+ years ago.

I remember when lots of things were super.

So, alternatives to lovely or nice?

At least lovely is a lovely word 😊

It is.