Verboticism: Badderment

'Omigod! What happened to your nose?'

DEFINITION: v. To make something worse while attempting to make it better. n. A bad improvement.

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Badderment

petaj

Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: bad-er-ment

Sentence: The government's social engineering activities were well intentioned but ended up for the badderment of all. It was really more like woeful engineering.

Etymology: bad + betterment

Points: 1013

Comments: Badderment

Mustang - 2008-05-15: 21:47:00
Good one!

Tigger - 2008-05-15: 23:33:00
Oh, this word works nicely! Good job.