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DEFINITION: n. A person who blames their neighbors, coworkers, and/or parents for anything and everything that is wrong in the world. v. To lay blame on someone for something which is obviously beyond their control and influence.
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Faultfoist
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: fawlt/foist
Sentence: Jenny faultfoists all her marriage problems on her mother.
Etymology: fault (flaw; failing) + foist (to force upon or impose fraudulently or unjustifiably)
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COMMENTS:
that's martial law for you! - galwaywegian, 2008-04-24: 05:41:00
Good blend - OZZIEBOB, 2008-04-26: 19:11:00
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Blamhor
Created by: Moonstar
Pronunciation: Blam-hore
Sentence: Tina was a sweet girl, but when that Blamhor idiot Gretchen spilled red wine all over her brand new wedding dress, then blamed Tina for making her do it, Tina snapped, chasing her round the room in her soiled dress on her big day.
Etymology: Blame, as in to place blame + Whore, as in prostitute or manwhore.
Faultinator
Created by: pieceof314
Pronunciation: fall tih nay tor
Sentence: Janice was a pathological faultinator. She had to blame every single disappointment on someone. "It's your fault my ice cream is melting, you twit," she decried. "If you hadn't stopped to tie your shoe and paid the cashier, he would have handed it me earlier." Mark just looked on with surprise. "And if you hadn't rushed my decision, I would have gotten chocolate chip mint instead of pistachio." "WTF? I didn't rush you," Mark relplied. "Yes you did; you were staring at me." Mark thought about planning his exit strategy.
Etymology: Fault + inator
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COMMENTS:
so that's what happened - Jabberwocky, 2008-04-24: 13:24:00
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Blunderbus
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: bluhn-der-buhs
Sentence: Jill never feels that she is to blame for anything. Should one of her friends suggest that she has made a mistake, she is perfectly willing to throw them under the blunderbus. She will then take over for the driver and do doughnuts just to drive her point home.
Etymology: blunder (mistake) + blunderbuss (an obsolete short musket with large bore and flared muzzle, used to scatter shot at short range )
Lackuse
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: lak youz
Sentence: As usual Sharon DeBlame always wanted to lackuse her fiance, parents, friends and relatives when things did not go her way, even though they had no control over these events. Her upcoming nuptials gave her a lot of fodder and turned her into a Bridezilla, a Bride of Frankenstein. By the time the big day rolled around, she had become impossible to live with and her fiance, Randy Foule, was seriously considering eloping with his best man, Ben Dover, just to escape the wrath of the hideous creature his innocent young fiancee had become!
Etymology: Lack (the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable or just not there) & Accuse ( blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against;reproach)
Environmentalpest
Created by: bookowl
Pronunciation: en/vyro/mental/pest
Sentence: An environmentalpest is worse than global warming.
Etymology: environmentalist + mental + pest
Yourfaulter
Created by: warmfuzzykitten
Pronunciation: yor-fall-ter
Sentence: In a five-minute discussion of global warming, the yourfaulter blamed China, farting cows, heavy breathers, George Soros, the Illuminati, aliens, his parents, and that yappy dog down the street.
Etymology:
Raptionalize
Created by: Tigger
Pronunciation: /RAP-shun-uh-liyz/
Sentence: Nothing was ever Doug's fault, and he would be the first one to admit that. He would raptionalize away any hint of blame for anything that went wrong, and he never hesitated to name a scapegoat for any conceivable problem. Doug made an art out of 'passing the buck'. Even when he was caught taking office supplies from the office, he blamed his parents for not spending enough time with him as a child, because, he explained, they were both workaholics.
Etymology: Rap - blame or punishment, especially for a crime (from Swedish, rapp "light blow" as in a rebuke) + Rationalize - to ascribe problems to causes that superficially seem reasonable and valid, but are actually unrelated (from Latin, ratiōnālis "reason")
Extraculpdeflect
Created by: rebelvin
Pronunciation: extra+culp+deflect
Sentence: You're already late due to your own procrastination, don't waste even more time extraculpdeflecting.
Etymology: extraNEOUS+culpABLE+deflectION
Faultfoist
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: fawlt/foist
Sentence: Jenny faultfoists all her marriage problems on her mother.
Etymology: fault (flaw; failing) + foist (to force upon or impose fraudulently or unjustifiably)
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James
Tigger - 2008-04-24: 02:50:00
Too bad 'blamestorm' is already in common use...
- 2008-04-26: 15:51:00
hilarious
- 2008-04-27: 07:02:00
Hiillarious clinton
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James