And some critics accused her of using the wrong word in her attack on Mr Abbott, pointing to the dictionary definition of ''misogyny'' as a pathological hatred of females.

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So that people avoid becoming the butt of jokes, Collins English Dictionary advises against using literally as an intensifier in formal or written contexts.

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Avoid using actual words, because password-cracking software can run through the entire dictionary in less than a minute.

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It does so using a dictionary and a comparative grammar a set of rules that describes the difference between each sentence component in the source language and its counterpart in the target language.

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