I’m currently reading The Duke and I and the author is constantly using the word “acerbic”. I had never heard of the word before now and had to google the definition. The word has shown up so much that I’m tempted to go through the book and count its appearances lol.
Have you noticed any authors having favorite words that they use page after page?
Michael Moorcock uses insouciant/insouciance in most of his writing, but it’s only one or two times per book and I think it’s more of an inside joke than weak/lazy writing like most of the other examples here.