Verboticisms

Created by: FeelTheMcGrath

Pronunciation: Semm-Ai-Ject-Lih-Ment

Sentence: Robert was finely dining in a local seafood restaurant. His eyes wandered across the joint, until they came across those of Lisa's. Her cold hard stare pierced his emotional heart, he looked away quickly. Some time after they both had finished eating their meals, Robert decided to approach Lisa. He, having only had emotional ties with his mother, did not know how to converse with Lisa. So, naturally, he exclaimed, "Wow! You're hot!" Lisa quickly turned around only to Semijectliment him with, "No thank you."

Etymology: Semi- half ject- to reject liment- a compliment

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: deeflashion

Sentence: His attempt at flattery met with rapid deflattion.

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Created by: specks28

Pronunciation: Reh-Tro-Zee-Duh

Sentence: Billy was wearing a Retrozeda-looking shirt. A lot of people looked and said, " Look at that blast from the past."

Etymology: Retro- backward;back Zeda- Mr.Grzeda

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Created by: sodium

Pronunciation: tawk-blawk

Sentence: Though she clearly had the best set of kidneys at the party, Janet talkblocked anyone who tried to compliment them.

Etymology: block = to thwart or prevent + talk

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Created by: rfrey121

Pronunciation: Re-jec-lament

Sentence: Suzy gave Richard a rejeclament when he tried to tell her that he like what she was wearing.

Etymology: Rejec- to throw clament- praise

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Created by: egonschiela

Pronunciation: per-fec-shun

Sentence: When I someone admires my artwork, I sometimes feel embarrassed, and perfecshun compliments.

Etymology: perfect (without fault) + shun (avoid)

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COMMENTS:

Me too... - wordmeister, 2007-01-19: 09:59:00

Too cute! Yeah, you got my vote! :) - PolishedAmethyst, 2007-01-21: 03:17:00

Too cute! Yeah, you got my vote! :) - PolishedAmethyst, 2007-01-21: 03:18:00

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Created by: CharlieB

Pronunciation: dis-d-mis

Sentence: She thought he must be being sarcastic about her new hairstyle. In that, she was a classic dissedmiss.

Etymology: diss + miss (failure to hit the mark)

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COMMENTS:

:) - galwaywegian, 2011-01-11: 15:11:00

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Created by: jedijawa

Pronunciation: praise-sluff

Sentence: Stephanie praisesluffed compliments.

Etymology: praise + sluff

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Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: stomp - le - ment

Sentence: Douglas turned every compliment into a stompliment as he could not accept them. Instead he ignored or stomped all over anything positive that people said about him.

Etymology: stomp, compliment

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Created by: beverly

Pronunciation:

Sentence: She was unjecdius when he complimented her.

Etymology: un- not ject- "reject" reject the compliment dius- medius (mediocre)think of themselves as mediocre because of their low self esteem.

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