Verboticism: Motivile
DEFINITION: v. To unintentionally encourage bad behavior by responding to it in a manner that incites even worse behavior. n. A response designed to stop bad behavior, which paradoxically produces more of it.
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Moregramming
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: mor gram ming
Sentence: Wanda whined, "You are such a loser, I don't know what I saw in you! Loser, loser!" To which Ralphie replied, "You keep calling me that, but I'm not a loser! You keep moregramming me with that title." After which he stormed out of the house, went to the store and bought himself the Powerball Lottery ticket which became the single winner of $280 million, U.S.!
Etymology: More (comparative of much; to a greater degree or extent) & Programming (a learning process in which an organism's behavior becomes dependent on the occurrence of a stimulus in its environment)
Goaddigrrr
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: gode/di/dur
Sentence: Sally's attempts at being a gold digger by encouraging her boyfriend to spend more money on her by telling him he reminded her of her favourite rock star backfired when she inadvertently became a goaddiggrr encouraging him instead to trash their apartment.
Etymology: goad + gold digger + grrr
Hamperpetuate
Created by: rebelvin
Pronunciation: HAMper+PERPETUATE
Sentence: Whatever you do, don't even mention his driving, you will only hamperpetuate his bad habits.
Etymology: HAMper+PERPETUATE
Habetual
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: ha bet ual
Sentence: Joanie nagged at Chachi when he drove, which drove him insane. She failed to under stand that her habetual commentary on his poor driving habits made him a worse driver. It would have probably worked better if she had actually had a driving license of her own before passing such critiques on his driving skills...
Etymology: Habitual (commonly used or practiced; usual) & Abet (assist or encourage, usually in wrongdoing)
Reverbirate
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: re - VERB - ihr - ate
Sentence: It seemed that whenever Consuelo would try to motivate her husband, Javier, to behave more civilly, her words would only reverbirate in some dark corner of his psyche and have the opposite effect with him responding in even more outrageous manner.
Etymology: blend of reverberate and irate
Reverbirate
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: re-VERB-eye-rayt
Sentence: It seemed that whenever Cindy would try to motivate her husband, Charlie, to behave more civilly, her words would only reverbirate in some dark corner of his psyche and have the opposite effect with him responding in even more outrageous manner.
Etymology: blend of 'reverberate' (echo) and 'irate' (angry)
Exacerbloop
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: Eks-asz-SUR-bloop
Sentence: When Bob tried to smooth things over with a few words of "wisdom", he quickly found out that many an embarassing moment wouldn't be so embarassing if it only lasted a moment. The daftermath of his exacerblooper and exacerblooping, lead to a hellishing harangue from Roxie that lasted an hour.
Etymology: Blend of EXACERBate & BLOOP/er: an embarassing, silly, verbal error, usually during a serious moment.
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COMMENTS:
great sentence - Jabberwocky, 2008-05-20: 15:32:00
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Reitirate
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: re-IT-eye-rayt
Sentence: While she was well intentioned Muriel would invariably overdo her prodding to get Stan to do things her way and in the end would almost always reitirate, harping on a topic until Stan would just blow his cork.
Etymology: Blend of reiterate and irate.
Tranquilose
Created by: Rutilus
Pronunciation: tran-kwi-looz
Sentence: However hard Peggy tried to pacify Ivan's ire she only ever seem to tranquilose him and in the process make him even more uptight. She was getting tired of this relationship and wanted out!
Etymology: tranquilise - to pacify; lose - to be defeated (in purpose)
