noun
informalA person who affects a provocative or extreme persona, especially online (typically used of a man)
- ‘edgelords act like contrarians in the hope that everyone will admire them as rebels’
- ‘He is an entitled suburban teenage edgelord who assumes he has the whole world figured out.’
- ‘I'm not an edgelord and I have nothing against heroes having principles and not killing on purpose.’
- ‘Unlike some edgelords he puts a humanity and silliness at the heart of his stories.’
- ‘He's just saying things to be an edgelord and provoke a reaction out of people.’
- ‘You're an edgelord through and through.’
- ‘Ever since that movie I've thought of him as a show-offy edgelord with a sadistic streak.’
- ‘His flair for riling up online edgelords is a recent discovery.’
- ‘Those men who have built reputations as edgelords of the comedy world would do well to take note.’
- ‘I feel like my having this opinion always comes across like I 'm trying to be an edgelord.’
- ‘His lawyer claims it 's all a misunderstanding - that he was just being an edgelord.’
- ‘The article reads like the senior thesis of a bright-enough undergraduate edgelord majoring in philosophy.’
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