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'Wow, you're hot! No thank you.'

DEFINITION: To reject a compliment. May indicate low self-esteem, or false modesty, or even a psychopathic aversion to flattery.

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Compleject

Created by: Gionuzzo

Pronunciation: KOM plee jekt

Sentence: Jill was forced into a therapy by her friends when she complejected to all of their attemps at casual flattery by refusing to accept them.

Etymology: Compliment + Object (as in objection)

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Puffdodge

Created by: Osomatic

Pronunciation: puff + dodge

Sentence: She said "nice legs" but I puffdodged that one, I know I'm hideous.

Etymology: puffery + dodge

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Repelaud

petaj

Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: re-PELL-ord

Sentence: Mergrin was a feisty goblin who refused to play the celebrity, although he was the high king of the gibrillaiths. He had developed a number of tricks to repelaud so as to avoid sinking into a neurotic spell of self-hatred.

Etymology: repel + laud

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Selfpshycoflat

Created by: kellii3

Pronunciation: self pshyco flat

Sentence: i gave him a compliment and she was really horrible thats when i realised that she was a selfpshycoflat !

Etymology: self - self-esteem pshyco - pshycopathic flat - flattery

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Complament

Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: comp-lah-ment

Sentence: even as i said it, i knew she would complament my compliment

Etymology: compliment, lament

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COMMENTS:

nice - galwaywegian, 2007-08-08: 04:23:00

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Admiralienation

Created by: marnee4nothin

Pronunciation: aed'-mar-eile-nei-shon

Sentence: Coleen stoppped wearing her little black dress when she received three proposals and her admiralienation became acute.

Etymology: admiration + alienation

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Complimonk

Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: kom-pleh-monk

Sentence: His carefully contrived compliment was met with a cunningly contrite complimonk. She just wanted to see him flattertattered.

Etymology: compliment, monk

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Disstribute

Created by: administraitor

Pronunciation: dibb+trib+ute

Sentence: Every time an admirer made a flattering remark, Caroline would disstribute the unfortunate guy, making him question the strength of his deodorant.

Etymology: diss (slang - insult) + tribute (compliment)

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Doubty

Created by: StigAllan

Pronunciation:

Sentence: Why are you always such a doubty?

Etymology:

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Rephewsal

Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: ree feuu zal

Sentence: Her rephewsals caused even more jaw dropping than her entrances, leading the men to assume that she would be more at a convent than the convention.

Etymology: refusal, phew!

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Genudeflect

Created by: Mintthyme

Pronunciation: 'jen-y&-di-flekt'

Sentence: Embarrassed by John's compliment, Sally quickly genudeflected.

Etymology: genuflect (to revere, worship) + deflect (to turn aside)

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COMMENTS:

Very nice. Here's a vote. - Wordhewer, 2007-08-07: 05:52:00

Anything with a "nude" in it works for me! - administraitor, 2007-08-07: 12:08:00

Oh my gosh, thank you. I mean, No thank you. - Mintthyme, 2007-08-08: 05:41:00

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Nulliflirt

Created by: Kyoti

Pronunciation: NULL-uh-flurt

Sentence: After the third time Rico complimented her breasts within ten minutes, Gertrude was forced to nulliflirt his advances by informing him that "they're not real."

Etymology: Nullify + flirt

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COMMENTS:

funny sentence - Gionuzzo, 2007-08-07: 17:02:00

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Kudojudo

Created by: KristinA

Pronunciation: coo-doe-jue-doe

Sentence: After telling Marcia how wonderful her new outfit looked, she could have just said "thank you." Instead, she kudojudoed the compliment by explaining how she only paid five dollars for it at the local second-hand store.

Etymology: kudos (informal for praise) + Judo (Japanese martial art used in self defense)

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Mustardseeding

mythman

Created by: mythman

Pronunciation: MUSS-turrd-see-ding

Sentence: The rich philosopher spoke only to other rich philosophers, MustardSeeding the poor who wanted to share their wisdom.

Etymology: In Jesus's time, the mustard-seed was considered a "weed" (until someone figured out its use).

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Fawnyawn

Created by: mplsbohemian

Pronunciation: FAWN-yawn

Sentence: Alex's compliments of her choice of T-shirt and sweatpants were met only with a fawnyawn.

Etymology: fawn (to flatter) + yawn (as an expression of disdain)

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Dysaccoladia

Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: dis-ak-ko-lay-DI-a

Sentence: Roxie didn't have low self-esteem or false modesty. She was suffering from dysaccoladia with an obsessional loathing for the obsequious; a phobia fearing fawnicators and was waging a war on wheedlers.

Etymology: From "dys" a prefix meaning "ill, abnormal, bad; "accolade" meaning "praise" in familiar speech and "ia" "condition"

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Got one of my votes. :) - Wordhewer, 2007-08-07: 05:51:00

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Highlow

Created by: dancer002013

Pronunciation: hi-lo

Sentence: She highlows to him.

Etymology: german

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Fawnix

Created by: remistram

Pronunciation: fawn-ix

Sentence: Her fawnixation caused her to fixate on his poor speech and phonics.

Etymology: fawn (to flatter) + nix (to refuse)

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