Parenthetical

that literary construct designed to clarify otherwise shoddy prose by sandwiching morphemes between em-dashes, commas, or pairs of actual eponymous parentheses while blithely ignoring the sad constraint of the abstraction, which hypocritically declares its fin-de-cul-de-sac superiority by disdaining further similar clarification within the bounds of its punctuate limits, and whose ironic badge of dubious honor is that it can be wholly removed yet still render the sentence grammatically sound invisible


Use “parenthetical” in a sentence:
A penchant for the parenthetical
is a lazy way to compass clarity.

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