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)
Lugubriate: /loo-GOO-bree-ayt/ Even on the sunniest days and rosiest occasions Esmerelda could be counted upon to lugubriate, searching through all the days events and news for the downbeat and negative offerings. Etymology: Blend of ‘Lugubrious’ (mournful, dismal, or gloomy, esp. in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner) with suffix ‘-ate’ (As the ending of a verb, it means to make, to cause, to act, etc.; as, to propitiate (to make propitious); to animate (to give life to) Created by: Mustang.
Sinnic: /sin nik/ Woody was a sinnic in the worst sense of the word. If your actions did not benefit him directly, he thought you had no business being on the planet! Etymology: Sin (commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake) & Cynic (someone who is critical of the motives of others)
Created by: Nosila.
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