"Quietly" and other magic adverbs
Word ChoiceOveruse of "quietly" and similar adverbs to convey subtle importance or understated power. AI reaches for these adverbs to make mundane descriptions feel significant. Also includes: "deeply", "fundamentally", "remarkably", "arguably", and the standalone construction "unusually well [X]".
Examples
“quietly orchestrating workflows, decisions, and interactions”
“the one that quietly suffocates everything else”
“a quiet intelligence behind it”
“fundamentally reshape how we think about...”
“this document is unusually well structured”
Tags
adverbsquietlyunderstated