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Twitter was out in force delivering its verdict on Watch Take Turns Tasting With College Alumni Onlinethe first presidential debate Monday, but some of the most devastating burns came from an unlikely source: the dictionary.

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Merriam-Webster's Twitter account, which usually tweets words of the day, decided to deliver its verdict on some of the lingo deployed by the two candidates during the 90-minute debate.

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OK, it was mostly Trump's words. OK, it was all Trump. This was how his rambling word salad went down with the nation's lexicographers.

They got a bit upset when he dropped the "braggadocious" bomb

And when he argued with moderator Lester Holt about "stop and frisk"

They did defend him when everyone thought he said "bigly"

They weren't too keen on the use of "deproximately"

Merriam-Webster did respond to one of Clinton's phrases, however, as the debate wrapped up

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