Voted For: Demonetary

Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: fo-reesh

Sentence: Carla was a member of the new fauxriche. She had not been true to her friends in her failed quest for wealth and now found herself alone and poor.

Etymology: faux (false) + riche (rich)

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COMMENTS:

All those sacrifces and nothing? I think Carla has it worse than Jim... - wordmeister, 2007-02-02: 10:37:00

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: ōvərtutaɪmər

Sentence: Every time Tim tried works extra hours to get ahead, life becomes an overtwotimer. Some kind of monetary crisis will jump up to put him further behind.

Etymology: overtime (time worked beyond one’s scheduled working hours) + two-timer (deceive or be unfaithful to a lover or spouse)

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Created by: chofu67

Pronunciation: cash flick ted

Sentence: Cashflicted Chad drifted off to the dark edges of the reunion hall when his material emblems of success were ignored by classmates who viewed him as the same loathesome character they had belittled fifteen years earlier.

Etymology: cash + conflicted

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Created by: leeleefmu

Pronunciation: poor -dumb

Sentence:

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Created by: mickey666

Pronunciation: fowstifi

Sentence: The pursuit of wealth is all I crave. I must faustify.

Etymology: From Christopher Marlowe's creation, Doctor Faustus.

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Created by: Headcrab

Pronunciation: trile

Sentence: He trifled with oil investments before being killed by a moustached oil baron. |-> "I hope that this coffee shop doesn't become a trifle."

Etymology: Old English: trifle. The Old English' usage of the word was used sarcastically when explaining a short lived venture in the past.

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COMMENTS:

Hopefully this verbotomic isn't a mere trifle. - Headcrab, 2012-06-09: 05:31:00

I hope that this coffee shop doesn't become a trifle - Headcrab, 2012-06-09: 05:33:00

Oops. Delete... - Headcrab, 2012-06-09: 05:33:00

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Created by: quippingqueen

Pronunciation: wod/frod

Sentence: A case of wadfraud involving far too many misbegotten miracles he hadn't expected left him with an inability to worship the Almighty Dollar as he had in the past.

Etymology: wad + fraud

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: misd-ˈfor-chuh-net

Sentence: Like all his past endeavors Clyde's latest pursuit of a killing in the market fell flat, and he remains broke, friendless and chronically missedfortunate.

Etymology: Blend of missed and fortunate.

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: sak rif is kal lam

Sentence: Like a born again zealot, she had pursued her selling pyramid like a religion and forsook her friends, her family and her health to acquire the top-rated status and finer things of life...her mansion, expensive cars, exotic trips and designer attire. But it was lonely counting all that money on your own. Her profit had become her prophet. On the altar of high consumerism, she had become a sacrifiscalamb.

Etymology: Sacrificial Lamb (someone or something which is given to people in authority and which is expected to be harmed or destroyed, especially in order to prevent other people or things from being harmed or destroyed) & Fiscal (involving financial matters)

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COMMENTS:

baaad! - galwaywegian, 2011-01-12: 03:58:00

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Created by: Bulletchewer

Pronunciation: self-kap-i-tayte

Sentence: The supermodel chose to selfcapitate, leaving her with nothing; but at least she was still skinnier than skin itself.

Etymology: From "self", "capital" (money) and "decapitate" (removal of the head).

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