edgelord
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Rowling is playing edgelord from the comfort of a life so far removed from reality that the truth is just a speck in the distance.
From Salon • Apr. 22, 2025
Is Bill Burr’s comedy meant to be taken at face value or is he doing a high-wire self-parody of the type of edgelord comedy that drew ire after a Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally?
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 10, 2024
The thing about being an edgelord, though, is that outside the context of whatever internet subcommunity in which the person resides, the content is off-putting.
From Slate • May 28, 2024
In this particular case, it’s the home studio of a talk-radio edgelord — his slogan: “You’re thinking it, he’s saying it.”
From New York Times • May 10, 2024
Although this isn’t the first brush our armed and streaming forces have had with edgelord humor on Twitch.
From The Verge • Sep. 16, 2020
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