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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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Sinflate

mrskellyscl

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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Faultune

petaj

Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: folt-you-n

Sentence: Kate was shunned by her neighbours because they were tired of her faultuning them. They had tried to be friendly, but what could they do with someone who castigated them for the sun coming up later as Winter came on.

Etymology: fault + fortune (destiny, fate) + tune (she's not singing that same old song again?)

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Blamebidextrous

Created by: bookowl

Pronunciation: blame/bee/dex/trose

Sentence: A blamebedextrous person can shift blame with double the speed.

Etymology: blame + be + ambidextrous

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COMMENTS:

clver! - mweinmann, 2009-06-18: 08:52:00

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Scapegoatherder

Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: scape/gote/hur/dur

Sentence: Sam was a scapegoatherder who had a handy flock of scapegoats to blame for anything that went wrong.

Etymology: scapegoat + goat herder

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COMMENTS:

mrskellyscl lol - mrskellyscl, 2009-06-17: 06:52:00

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Guiltslinger

artr

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: giltslingər

Sentence: Mary is quite the guiltslinger. Everything wrong with the world is the fault of everybody but her. She is all too happy to use her cigarette break to lay blame on anybody who should dare to use an aerosol product, or buy non-local produce. She writes a "How to be Green" newsletter which she delivers door-to-door in her Hummer.

Etymology: guilt (the fact of having committed a specified or implied offense or crime) + gunslinger (a man who carries a gun and shoots well)

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COMMENTS:

love the hummer reference - Jabberwocky, 2009-06-17: 16:01:00

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Blunderbus

artr

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 )

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Culpabully

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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Beliebelame

Created by: leedit

Pronunciation:

Sentence: Beliebelaming behavior can be symptomatic of poor self esteem and diminished synaptic activity.

Etymology: Original form, "belible", was more common in the first half of the 20th century; additional syllable is a more recent etymological development.

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Coblamer

Created by: chingbangwa

Pronunciation: koh-blay-mer

Sentence: Julia is the world biggest coblamer. She lost a game of tetris and blamed it on me saying i distrupted her.

Etymology: co+blamer

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Blaim

Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: blll aym

Sentence: She was the consummate blaimer, the word sorry only ever left her lips if preceded by "you'll be" of followed by "I ever met someone so incompetent". It was probably hereditary.

Etymology: Blame. Aim.

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COMMENTS:

good one, galwaywegian...have met her! - Nosila, 2008-04-24: 21:30:00

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Comments:

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2008-04-24: 00:01:00
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
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- 2008-04-27: 07:02:00
Hiillarious clinton

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2009-06-17: 00:01:00
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James