Verboticism: Stagnantagonise

DEFINITION: v. To complain and complain about a problem without ever taking action to correct it. n. A complaint about something which you can fix but choose not to.
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Blazemy
Created by: administraitor
Pronunciation: blai-zem-ee
Sentence: The water cooler was the place to hear a fresh blazemy in the heady work-shy days before bankruptcy
Etymology: blame + lazy
Deridleness
Created by: Clayton
Pronunciation: di-RAHYD-l-nis
Sentence: Gracie's incessant deridling was symptomatic of her untenable hypocrisycophancy. She was even heard complaining to the boss about the tissues in her own wastebasket.
Etymology: deride + idleness
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COMMENTS:
That's snot Gracie, that's Ingracieous. - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-15: 09:32:00
Lord nose! - Clayton, 2007-06-15: 18:13:00
Snorting with laughter! This sentence could be the pick of the day! - petaj, 2007-06-15: 21:12:00
That'd be so upsniffting. - Clayton, 2007-06-15: 23:10:00
Love grows where my Rosemary goes And nobody nose like me (sung by Pinochio) - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-16: 00:10:00
Haha. There's no business like nose business. (Sung by a plastic surgeon.) - Clayton, 2007-06-16: 02:59:00
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Criticycle
Created by: mplsbohemian
Pronunciation: KRIH-tih-sye-kuhl
Sentence: Alex's girlfriend had no idea that her laments over his lack of mouthwash merely put her in a criticycle.
Etymology: criticise + cycle (circling round and round)
Carpathetic
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: car - puh - THET - ik
Sentence: Elwood is completely carpathetic about things he feels are wrong; he carps and complains but is such an ineffectual wimp he never does anything to improve things.
Etymology: Blend of 'carp' (complain) and 'pathetic' (miserably or contemptibly inadequate)
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COMMENTS:
I like this word more each time i see it. - metrohumanx, 2008-08-12: 14:45:00
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Whinertia
Created by: Katisms1
Pronunciation: wine-ER-sha
Sentence: Having perfected the fine art of complaining about everything and solving nothing, she could have run for Governor of the state of whinertia -- and won in a landslide.
Etymology: whine (and/or whiner) + inertia
Growlapath
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: gr-owl-ah-path
Sentence: Being a growlapath was a self-fulfilling prophecy for petty Myrtle. Shooting herself in the foot was a daily exercise.
Etymology: growl (gripe) + apath (as in pathological) and (as in apathy)
Gripesansameliorate
Created by: SnatchRaffle
Pronunciation: Gr ipe san sa meal io rate
Sentence: Dennis I am so sick of your gripesansameliorating! If you are bored go outside and play. Or take a nap! Ed is just a crotchety old gripesansameliorate. I don't think I've ever seen him actually work. Just sits there, and laments that his children never call.
Etymology: Gripe: complain, whine Sans: without Ameliorate: to make better
Comstain
Created by: Mrgoodtimes
Pronunciation: com - stain
Sentence: Rather than fix the windshield, Peter felt like the spidered glass added a great comstain ice breaker during his car pooling trips.
Etymology: Complain - Sustain (sounds offensive but not intended)
Complaintamantics
Created by: texmom
Pronunciation: com plaint ah man ticks
Sentence: All complainimatics aside, what should we do about the problem?
Etymology: complaint - gripes amantics - actions
