Verboticism: Mastard
DEFINITION: v. To exercise power through the strategic use of personal insults, while pretending to offer encouragement. n. A leader who motivates people by insulting them.
Mastard
Created by: Clayton
Pronunciation: MAS-terd
Sentence: H. Clancy Pettigrew was a mastard of insultimate penuriousadism. His misanthrapaciousness was rivaled only by his truculentertaining friendishness.
Etymology: master + bastard
Points: 500
Comments: Mastard
Clayton - 2007-06-12: 08:25:00
Interestingly, there is a rhetorical term for the art of insulting people without them knowing it: Charientism. Traditionally it means "the act of stating something objectionable in an agreeable manner."
petaj - 2007-06-12: 08:41:00
I love this sentence. It's a cornucopious assemblerection of tonguetwisting verbsmithery.
Clayton - 2007-06-12: 08:48:00
I get it from years of reading Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty. Please don't tell anyone!
jadenguy - 2007-06-12: 10:01:00
you're secret's safe with me.
Clayton - 2007-06-12: 10:11:00
Nooooo! The only way three people can keep a secret is if two of me are already dead! Now I'll have to start reading other lunatics with undying affinities for pointless displays of frantic hippopotomonstrosesquipedalianism.
Jabberwocky - 2007-06-12: 15:00:00
Wow! love the sentence