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Is This The First Use Of The Word 'Butthurt' In A Deposition?

You wouldn't expect the word "butthurt" to be used professionally by lawyers during legal proceedings -- until now.

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In case you’re not aware, Oxford Dictionaries added the slang term “butthurt” to its lexicon this summer. “Butthurt” can be used as an adjective or as a noun, and you can use it to describe someone who is acting “overly or unjustifiably offended or resentful” (i.e., Larry the Lawyer was butthurt that his disbarment was featured on Above the Law) or to describe something that causes a person to harbor “an excessive or unjustifiable feeling of personal offense or resentment” (i.e., Larry the Lawyer to get over the butthurt from being featured on Above the Law).

Despite the fact that “butthurt” is now a word with a dictionary definition, you wouldn’t expect it to be used professionally by lawyers during legal proceedings. That changed, however, when Kentuckiana Reporters, a court reporting company based in Louisville, Kentucky, announced on August 27 that it had decided to host the Butthurt Challenge, offering a 10 percent discount to the first lawyer to use the word “butthurt” in a deposition.

It took less than two weeks for a lawyer to win the challenge. Here’s the winning deposition entry, submitted by attorney Vanessa Cantley of Bahe Cook Cantley & Nefzger, whom a tipster described as a “very funny and very well respected trial attorney”:

Note that “butthurt” is one word, not two. Worry not, because Kentuckiana Reporters assures its customers that the proofreader on Cantley’s “butthurt” deposition has been terminated. We sincerely hope that court reporter isn’t too butthurt about it.

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