DEFINITION: v. To ignore anything positive and focus your energy on problems, disasters, and whatever bad news you find. n. A person who searches for, and feeds on, other people’s weaknesses, failures and mistakes.
VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)
Depressimist: /de pres sim ist/ Woody was a pileated woodpecker and a depressimist. Nothing could please him. He even hated his species’ name…it made him sound like he always had piles. He wood birch about his troubles all day, but the other birds soon learned to twitter him for his negative talk. One brave, elder Robin finally had enough and told him, “Woody, spruce yourself up and quit pining, yew son of a beech. We know that your bark is worse than your bite. All this depressimism will alder you permanently fir sure, unless you learn to spruce up your outlook. Be happy yew are free and can fly. If yew don’t like it here, yew can pack your trunk and fly away. Yew wood be less bore-ing and a lot more poplar, if yew quit making such an ash of yourself…oakay?!” Etymology: Depress (lower someone’s spirits; make downhearted;lessen the activity or force of) & Pessimist (a person who expects the worst)
Created by: Nosila.
Comments on Depressimist:
karenanne, 2010-11-03: 22:34:00
Perfect word – it should have an entry in Webster’s!karenanne, 2010-11-04: 18:00:00
I voted for yours, but it turned out I hadn’t been logged in. Well, you have the points, at least!
Flawyer: /flôyər/ Tony entered the field of law with high hopes of making the world a better place. What he soon discovered was that he was really in a world of flaw enforcement. When somebody messes up he makes money. Once he got all of that Don Quixote nonsense out of system he became a real flawyer. Etymology: flaw (imperfection) + lawyer (a person who practices or studies law) Created by: artr.
Snipercritical: /SNY per CRIT ih cul/ My aunt Prissy is usually looking for mistakes or flaws, real or imagined, so she can complain about how she could have done something so much better, if someone had only asked her. And she somehow manages to blame every problem of her own on someone else. Even though she’s been married five times, every one of the divorces was the man’s fault. According to her, her adult children don’t talk to her because “they are ungrateful and don’t appreciate all the sacrifices I’ve made for them.” More likely, her husbands left and most of the people in the family avoid her because she is so snipercitical, always waiting to take potshots from the sidelines. Etymology: sniper + hypercritical Created by: karenanne.
Comments on Snipercritical:
Nosila, 2010-11-04: 01:35:00
ah, the relationship assassin…
Shadyfraud: /Shade-E FROD/ Steven is scuh a shadyfraud he always laughs at me when I spill scalding coffee all over my keyboard. Etymology: Schadenfreude. God love the Germans Created by: idavecook.
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