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DEFINITION: n. The feeling you get when fate plays a stupid little trick on you, just to remind you that life isn't fair. v. To suddenly remember that you've been screwed by the powers that be.
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Karmosity
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: karm/os/ity
Sentence: I'm filled with karmosity when I drop a coin and it rolls into the sewer, the bread lands peanut butter side down, or the milk I just bought is sour.
Etymology: karma + animosity
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COMMENTS:
try to keep karm. - galwaywegian, 2007-03-08: 04:46:00
Be careful not to slip on the peanut butter bread and end up karmatose - Jabberwocky, 2007-03-08: 13:32:00
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Moiraed
Created by: EonaFrae
Pronunciation: moy-raid
Sentence: Susan moiraed through the days events; life really did suck.
Etymology: Moirai [name of The Fates from Greek mythology] + ed [suffix]
Failtalism
Created by: erasmus
Pronunciation: fail tall ism
Sentence: Mary was hit by a feeling of failtalism when she realized that yet again she was not going to be Cinderella at the ball.
Etymology: from fail and faitalism
Providented
Created by: CharlieB
Pronunciation: prov-ee-dent-id
Sentence: After the sleepless night, the car alarm waking her at 4.30 and the heating failing to come on, the toast falling butter-side down was the final straw. Cheryl felt unfairly providented.
Etymology: providence (God's guidance over humans) + dented (to reduce or slightly injure)
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COMMENTS:
:) - galwaywegian, 2011-02-08: 09:47:00
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Destinyschide
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: dess-tun-eez-chide
Sentence: every week he bought a lottery ticket..except this week... and as he watched his numbers come up he was filled with a sense of destinyschide
Etymology: chide, destinys child
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COMMENTS:
Good one! - BMott, 2007-03-08: 23:48:00
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Horrorscope
Created by: toadstool57
Pronunciation: hor-or-skOp
Sentence: After endlesss days of bad luck, Jill checked her horrorscope indicating she is in for a life of bad karma.
Etymology: horror/horoscope
Suckatude
Created by: paintergrl1313
Pronunciation:
Sentence: After I dropped my toast I was over come with a feeling of suckatude
Etymology: Suck+aditude
Dismet
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: dis-met
Sentence: Janene got a bonus of $100 for her hard work on one of her accounts. Her car broke down on the way home and it cost her $300 to get it fixed. She made some extra money at a part-time job and spent all of it on the speeding ticket she got hurrying to get there on time. It's just another of life's cruel jokes. It's dismet!
Etymology: dis (rap slang, short for disrespect) + kismet (fate; destiny)
Kharmalized
Created by: tommyboy
Pronunciation: kar-muh-lize-duh
Sentence: after a day of repeated jinxes, my fortune was kharmalized with a slip in the shower.
Etymology: play on words/hominym
Karmagettin
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: kärməgetin
Sentence: Harry seems to be surprised every time fate slaps him in the face. He refuses to change his behaviors so he keeps karmagettin the same results. Somehow this only makes him more determined to continue on the same course. Such is the life of a bulldog.
Etymology: karma (destiny or fate, following as effect from cause) + gettin (come to have or hold something; receive) a plat on Armageddon - the last battle between good and evil before the Day of Judgment
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COMMENTS:
Karmandgettit! - Nosila, 2009-09-25: 17:32:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by paintergrl1313.
Thank you paintergrl1313! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by paintergrl1313. Thank you paintergrl1313. ~ James
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