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DEFINITION: v. To listen intently and sympathize with your colleagues when they request assistance, and then to simply, and completely, forget about it. n. The ability to sympathize with, yet ignore, requests for help.
Verboticisms
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Compassiveness
Created by: ekath
Pronunciation: com-pass-iv-ness
Sentence: Her attitude and attention, which seemingly sincere, should not be misleading. Its all scheming compassiveness.
Etymology: from compassionate + passive
Sympatigo
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: simmm pat eye gow
Sentence: He was tres sympatigo, nodding sympathetically while reversing out the door
Etymology: sympatico, I go
Flipservice
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: flip/sur/vus
Sentence: His flipservice was so convincing, he never did any actual work
Etymology: flip (about face) + lip service (hypocracy)
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COMMENTS:
Can also be tied to flippant, which is quite appropriate. - purpleartichokes, 2007-02-27: 10:01:00
Excellent point purple - Jabberwocky, 2007-02-27: 13:30:00
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Empathetic
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: em/pa/theh/tik
Sentence: Our IT team is very empathetic. They listen attentively to our problems and then promptly forget about them.
Etymology: empathy + pathetic
Scampathy
Created by: Discoveria
Pronunciation: Skam-path-ee
Sentence: Instead of helping Jill go up the hill to fetch a pail of water, Jack stayed at home out of sheer laziness. He was a master of the art of scampathy.
Etymology: Scam + scamp + empathy. Scam: a con; something designed to fool you. Scamp: a rascal. Empathy: to put yourself in another person's shoes, to see their point of view.
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COMMENTS:
like that one! - w5lf9s, 2007-02-27: 12:12:00
A very good word. Without knowing the definition, you'd be able to figure out its meaning. - purpleartichokes, 2007-02-27: 12:22:00
It's scamptastic! - Alchemist, 2007-02-27: 12:47:00
good one - Jabberwocky, 2007-02-27: 13:31:00
Nice one Discoveria! And I am not just being scampathetic. - wordmeister, 2007-02-27: 19:30:00
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Brieffriend
Created by: Bulletchewer
Pronunciation: breef-frend
Sentence: At first her brieffriending made Scarlet seem caring, but ultimately her co-workers knew she was dabbling with bullshit.
Etymology: From "befriend","friend","brief" and "end".
Sympafake
Created by: toralora
Pronunciation: sim/pah/faik
Sentence: I though he was supportive but as it turned out it was all one big sympafake.
Etymology: sympathize + fake/false
Conmanfidant
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: konn mahnn fid awnt
Sentence: He was a complete comnamfidant. They all ran to him with their deepest secret fears, mistaking his wide eyed look as one of surprise when in fact he had thyroid issues and ulterior motives.
Etymology: confidant, con man
Egosponge
Created by: adbern
Pronunciation: ege-spunge
Sentence: However he always listen very carefully when you ask him something, he never do it. He's a egosponge.
Etymology: ego from egoist + sponge from his memory is like a sponge
Disenharken
Created by: catgrin
Pronunciation: dis-en-hahr-kuhn
Sentence: John's disenharkening behavior left Carol feeling as though her confidant was useless.
Etymology: Take off on "dis" + "enhearten" meaning "to give heart" and "dis harken" meaning "forgetting to hear"
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by erasmus.
Thank you erasmus! ~ James
Thanks James! shame I cant think of a word this time though, boo!
Today's definition was suggested by erasmus. Thank you erasmus. ~ James