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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.
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Ipodnod
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: I/pod/nod
Sentence: He was a master of the ipodnod. He looked intensely interested but he was really listening to his favorite tunes
Etymology: ipod + nod
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COMMENTS:
Is this a confession? - wordmeister, 2007-02-27: 19:31:00
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Usefail
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: yous - fayl
Sentence: Lorne proved to be usefail most of the time. Louise thought he cared, thought he understood her problem and then thought he wanted to help but for some reason, he never was able to.
Etymology: useful, fail
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
Fauxgetfullness
Created by: urbanwookie
Pronunciation: foh-get-fool-ness
Sentence: When challenged by his boss, James blamed his inaction on his chronic fauxgetfullness.
Etymology: faux + forgetfullness (contraction)
Ironian
Created by: newszi
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Sally asked Cindy, about Joe might be able to help them. Sally answered: -Don't bother, he's an Ironian When you ask for help you need the most, all you get is Ironians'. Joe's answers are an Ironian's, he newer keeps himself to them.
Etymology: irony + answer or irony +an
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
Assignore
Created by: allwise
Pronunciation: ass-ig-nore
Sentence: As he assignored Paula's plea of help, he was racking up a new record on Tetris!
Etymology: assist + ignore
Sympalies
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: sim-pa-lize
Sentence: Ied can always be counted on to sympalies with you when you're having trouble. He says he'll be happy to help you, but whenever you need him, he's nowhere to be found. Later he has one excuse after another for why he couldn't help.
Etymology: sympathize: to feel compassion for another's trouble + lies: a false statement told to pass for truth
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COMMENTS:
nice - galwaywegian, 2009-09-18: 07:49:00
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Pathetinance
Created by: rickki
Pronunciation: path-et-in-ans
Sentence: Tony showed pathetinance towards Sonia, as she asked for help yesterday.
Etymology:
Sympathesia
Created by: mja188
Pronunciation: sym-pa-th-e-z-a
Sentence: It didn't matter how horrible the story Jim always seemed to suffer from sympathesia
Etymology: Sympathy and amensia
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