Verboticism: Contemptation
DEFINITION: To sacrifice your health, your family, and even a few friends to money, only to discover that money doesn't like you.
Contemptation
Created by: jesster
Pronunciation: con - tem - tation
Sentence: Arnold decided to leave the monastery to pursue a life of contemptation.
Etymology: Contempt + temptation
Points: 911
Comments: Contemptation
entryfee - 2007-11-03: 19:35:00
Great word, I've thought of it, too, a few months ago and as Erin McKean told me in her TechTalk video, that I ought to tell the other inventors about this mysterious mental connection, I googled this page, so greetings from Germany. (I think we also feel contemptation then drinking contemptatious alcoholic stuff, or when smoking, though I don't.) http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7548057564471419291