dylan-k
commented
5 years ago I took a look at that source and a few other to come up with this:
---
extends: existence
message: "Avoid hedge words like '%s'"
ignorecase: true
level: warning
tokens:
- a bit
- Honestly
- I am about
- I believe
- I doubt
- I feel
- I guess
- I may be wrong
- I might be wrong
- I should
- I think
- I will try
- I'll try
- I'm about
- I'm just being honest here
- I'm just saying
- I'm just trying
- I'm no expert
- I'm not an expert
- I'm trying
- If I'm being honest
- In my opinion
- This might be a stupid question
- We think
- We're no expert
- Yes, but
- a bit
- a little
- a tad
- a touch
- about
- actually
- allege
- alleged
- almost
- almost never
- always
- and all that
- and so forth
- apologies
- apologize
- apparent
- apparently
- appear
- appear to be
- appeared
- appears
- approximately
- arguably
- around
- as far as I know
- assume
- assumed
- assumes
- assumption
- at least
- basically
- be sure
- believe
- believed
- believes
- bother
- bunch
- can
- certain
- certainly
- clear
- clearly
- conceivably
- consider
- considered
- considers
- consistent with
- could
- couple
- definite
- definitely
- diagnostic
- does that make sense
- don't know
- doubt
- doubtful
- effectively
- estimate
- estimated
- estimates
- et cetera
- evidently
- fairly
- few
- find
- finds
- forgive
- found
- frequently
- from my point of view
- generally
- guess
- guessed
- guesses
- hardly
- hopefully
- if I'm honest
- if i'm understanding you correctly
- improbable
- in all honesty
- in general
- in my mind
- in my opinion
- in my understanding
- in my view
- inconclusive
- indicate
- just
- just about
- kind of
- largely
- like
- likely
- literally
- little
- look like
- looks like
- mainly
- many
- may
- maybe
- might
- more or less
- most
- mostly
- much
- must
- my impression
- my thinking is
- my understanding is
- nearly
- necessarily
- occasionally
- often
- overall
- partially
- partly
- perhaps
- possibility
- possible
- possibly
- practically
- presumable
- presumably
- pretty
- probability
- probable
- probably
- quite
- quite clearly
- rare
- rarely
- rather
- read
- really
- really quite
- roughly
- say
- says
- seem
- seem(s)?
- seemed
- seems
- seldom
- several
- should
- so far
- some
- somebody
- somehow
- someone
- something
- something or other
- sometimes
- somewhat
- somewhere
- sorry
- sort of
- speculate
- speculated
- speculates
- suggest
- suggested
- suggestive
- suggests
- suppose
- supposed
- supposedly
- supposes
- surely
- tend
- their impression
- think
- thinks
- thought
- to be honest
- to be perfectly honest
- to my knowledge
- try
- trying
- understand
- understands
- understood
- unlikely
- unsure
- usually
- very
- virtually
- will
- would
Likely mostly complete, but check against this - https://github.com/words/hedges/blob/master/data.txt