Verboticisms

Created by: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: sin-flate

Sentence: Jean would sinflate every mistake Jack made until he felt like he needed to beg for absolution.

Etymology: sin: guilt, trespass, ungodliness + inflate:aggrandize, blow out of proportion

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Created by: karenanne

Pronunciation: SKAIP goad

Sentence: Lam finally realized that her boyfriend basically just enjoyed picking fights for no reason. Most of them revolved around her supposed failure to care about health, the environment, or other people. He scapegoaded her for the size of his OWN butt (it was her fault because she bought snacks with trans-fats). It was because of her that his elderly mother was unhappy ("She's lonely and you don't pay enough attention to her when she talks about all her aches and digestive problems"). He scapegoaded her for using too much hot water when she took a nice long hot shower ("wasteful and bad for the environment," he said). But once, when they stayed in a hotel, he took lots of long hot showers, and it was then that she realized that he just wanted to make sure there was enough hot water for HIM! She had the last laugh, though, when she decided to break up with him. She donated his beloved car to Aid for the Ancient. When he arrived home to find it gone, she said cheerfully, "I knew you wouldn't mind because I KNOW how much you care about helping old people. And an added bonus is that it's really good for the environment AND your health if you drive less and bike more!"

Etymology: scapegoat (to single out a person for unmerited blame or negative treatment) + goad (to harass, nag, antagonize)

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COMMENTS:

good one... - Nosila, 2010-06-29: 19:23:00

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Created by: alicat

Pronunciation: Jug-er-blame

Sentence: Tom loved to Juggerblame everyone when things weren't going his way. From his car accident that his mother-in-law caused, to his ingrown toe-nail caused by the thunderstorms, everything was always someone else's fault.

Etymology: Juggernaut (something that destroys everything in its path) + blame (to place the responsibility of the action / event on someone else)

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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")

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Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: KUHL-po-hol-ik

Sentence: Bob was culpoholic who would smile when things went wrong because he had already thought of someone he could blame it on.

Etymology: CULPOHOLIC: One who ascribes blame to others excessively & habitually. From Lt, "CULP" " fault, blame, crime & "OHOLIC" : A pseudo suffix: for one who does something to excess & habitually.

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COMMENTS:

great word - Jabberwocky, 2008-04-24: 11:45:00

excellent - stache, 2008-04-24: 14:07:00

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: fall tee pow urs

Sentence: Basil Fawlty is a faultypowers. He faultypowers his hotel guests for expecting too much from him, like sunny weather and decent food. He faultypowers his wife Sybil, his little nest of vipers, for his cynical world view, due to his prison camp of a marriage (she being the warden, of course and he the lifer). And mainly he faultypowers Manuel, his dogsbody, on everything and anything else that clouds his day, just because Manuel is from Barcelona and can never understand enough English to know he is to blame. In his own mind, nothing is ever Basil's fault. Luckily he has Sybil to constantly remind him that he is wrong about that, too!

Etymology: faulty (describes a situation where things are wrongly done; being responsible for errors or defects;gives reason to complain) & powers (in fluential persons; ability to act or make changes; superhuman skills) & for rhyming and reference, Fawlty Towers (popular British sitcom)

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I love Faulty Towers! - pieceof314, 2008-04-24: 11:30:00

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Created by: youmustvotenato

Pronunciation: scape-dote

Sentence: Bressica, filled with rage at the world after watching the latest global warming documentary, wanted to blame everyone else for the way the environment is.

Etymology: scapegoat (fall guy) + dote (act foolishly)

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Created by: jadespring

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Etymology: from german stinkfinger.

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: tranz-FIM-pleh-kayt

Sentence: Freida was borderline paranoid and saw disasters looming in any kind of bad news and even in some of her own misadventures, but rather than taking stock and dealing with issues head on she would transfimplicate, blaming other people, the government and other kinds of agencies for her perceived doom and gloom.

Etymology: Blend of transfer and implicate

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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.

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