Copywriting Tip: Beware The Adjective Menace

Cathy Goodwin
2 min readJun 22, 2021

Copywriters need to show — not tell. Adjectives tell.

Image by Fathromi Ramdlon from Pixabay

I used to think adjectives were fairly harmless…friendly little words you’d sprinkle through your copy like chives in a salad.

But now I agree with Henneke Duistermaat, who calls them “a copywriter’s nightmare.”

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Cathy Goodwin

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