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DEFINITION: v. To reject a compliment. May indicate low self-esteem, or false modesty, or even a psychopathic aversion to flattery. n. A person who has difficulty accepting praise.
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Flattereject
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: flatərējekt
Sentence: In an attempt to seem humble, Alex will flattereject any nice thing said about him. It doesn’t take most people too long to figure out that he is right.
Etymology: flattery (excessive and insincere praise) + reject (dismiss as inadequate, inappropriate, or not to one’s taste)
Complimental
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: kom plih men tahl
Sentence: She went totally complimental when he kissed her hand. leaving him with a broken heart nose and tooth
Etymology: compliment mental
Compliphobic
Created by: toadstool57
Pronunciation: com-pli-phO-bic
Sentence: David insisted Jill looked like a beauty queen in her long silky dress . Jill being compliphobic, just turned red, and told him to stop lying.
Etymology: compliment/phobic
Swerveulogize
Created by: SydneyNFox
Pronunciation: SWER-V-U-LEH-J-IZE
Sentence: When i was elected prom Queen, I found it difficult to swerveulogize peoples comments.
Etymology: Swerve: Old english swerorfan- to turn away eulogize: Greek eulogia- praise; good or fine language
Praisesluff
Created by: jedijawa
Pronunciation: praise-sluff
Sentence: Stephanie praisesluffed compliments.
Etymology: praise + sluff
Dissedmiss
Created by: CharlieB
Pronunciation: dis-d-mis
Sentence: She thought he must be being sarcastic about her new hairstyle. In that, she was a classic dissedmiss.
Etymology: diss + miss (failure to hit the mark)
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COMMENTS:
:) - galwaywegian, 2011-01-11: 15:11:00
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Knockbackoff
Created by: Psychicsi
Pronunciation: nok-bak-off
Sentence: Mandy had to knockbackoff another of her party guests. Yes she was pretty, but she didnt want to come accross as easy.
Etymology: From knock-back (to reject something) and back-off
Retrozeda
Created by: specks28
Pronunciation: Reh-Tro-Zee-Duh
Sentence: Billy was wearing a Retrozeda-looking shirt. A lot of people looked and said, " Look at that blast from the past."
Etymology: Retro- backward;back Zeda- Mr.Grzeda
Complamenticitus
Created by: pandafever
Pronunciation: com-pla-ment-acitus
Sentence: Maggie's complamenticitus was out of control on her wedding day.
Etymology:
Comments:
Hey Verbotomists, Sorry for the double re-run. Here is a new one for today ~ James