But I think perhaps "reactionary" would be the more accurate adjective.
Our horror of appearing uncouth leads us all -- kings and commoners alike -- to opt for the ubiquitous adverb instead of the terse, accurate adjective.
If forced to describe what it tasted like, the most accurate adjective I can conjure is "food".
The fact that I'm fat -- yes, I said "fat," because it's an accurate adjective and not an insult -- does nothing to add or detract from my value as a person and as a woman of great worth.
To say a writer or a speaker is verbose is to say that, for him, one accurate adjective could never accomplish what five so-so, mediocre, middling, half-cocked, wobbly adjectives could accomplish by pilling them up in a heap.
Those adjectives may be accurate, but there's a slightly demeaning tone to them.
The adjectives may be perfectly accurate, but they also diminish our capacity to remember there's a human being involved, not just a "gang member," a "defendant," a "drug dealer".
That adjective in the title is accurate.
We believe however that as these effects, direct and indirect, cumulatively represent tumor-associated changes in the miRNA expression profile of cells, that the use of the adjective 'aberrant' in this context is an accurate description of the expression behavior of miRNAs that are 'diverging from the normal' (Oxford Concise Dictionary).
We can quibble about all of those adjectives: what is more interesting is whether the four women portrayed were accurate reflections of the way modern women manage their emotional, romantic and sex lives.
