The words "malarkey," "hypocrisy," "treason" and "demagogue" are all on people's minds leading into Hillary Clinton's convention speech Thursday night. After Vice President Biden used the term in his convention speech to describe Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's self-proclaimed advocacy for the middle class, look-ups of the term "malarkey" jumped 17,400 percent. During his address, Bloomberg used the word "hypocrisy" in describing Trump. On Thursday morning, two other terms currently registering in Merriam-Webster's trending searched words — "hypocrisy" and "treason" — had ascended the peak of Mount Growing Curiosity. By the way, late Thursday, "malarkey," like Biden, held the No.

Source: Washington Post July 28, 2016 19:25 UTC