Verboticisms

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: sky fawlt

Sentence: When the sun made her ice cream cone drip, Betheny did the old skyfault trick...blame the sky, cause it holds the sun for melting the ice cream, which would not have happened if she had just eaten it right away.

Etymology: Sky (wild blue yonder) Fault (Blame;culpability) & Wordplay on Skyfall (latest James Bond Movie)

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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: 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: 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

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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: arrrteest

Pronunciation: Blay-min-eest-ah

Sentence: "I bet it's my fault you have a hangnail," Jeffry cried out in frustration. According to Christa the Blaminista, he was responsible for all that was wrong with their relationship.

Etymology: Blaming + ist, agent noun suffix, also used to indicate adherence to a certain doctrine or custom -- ista, from Sp. form, popularized in Eng. 1970s by names of Latin-American revolutionary movements.

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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: jadespring

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Etymology: from german stinkfinger.

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Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: kull - pa - bull - ee

Sentence: Marcy is known as a culpabully. No matter what goes wrong in the world, she always blames someone; even if it is a force of nature or circumstantial.

Etymology: culpable (deserving blame), bull (a serious and ludicrous blunder,bullshit: obscene words for unacceptable behavior), bully (pick on, browbeat)

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COMMENTS:

like it - Jabberwocky, 2009-06-17: 16:03:00

Good one. - Mustang, 2009-06-18: 00:23:00

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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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