{"id":1156,"date":"2011-03-08T12:00:10","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T17:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1156"},"modified":"2011-03-08T12:00:10","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T17:00:10","slug":"circumevent-but-i-dont-know-how-to-take-out-the-garbage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1156","title":{"rendered":"Circumevent: But I don&#8217;t know how to take out the garbage!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>n.<\/em> A specialized inability, or area of &#8220;chosen incompetency&#8221;, based on an individual&#8217;s need to avoid certain unpleasant tasks. <em>v.<\/em> To avoid responsibility by claiming incompetence.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/trash.gif\" alt=\"But I don't know how to take out the garbage!\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Circumevent<\/strong>:  \/<em>sir kum eev ent<\/em>\/ Brad was able to make garbage day a circumevent until he discovered one day that the new Waste Engineer was a cute chick. While she worked all summer taking away refuse, he volunteered to take out the family&#8217;s garbage. But once September came around, he was back to his old tricks. She had gone back to school and there was no longer any eye candy removing his trash. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Circumvent ( avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) &amp; Event ( something that happens at a given place and time;a special set of circumstances) <em>Created by:<\/em> Nosila.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Incompretence<\/strong>:  \/<em>in-com-pre-tense<\/em>\/ Marcus expended more effort on his displays of incompretence than he would have done on actually finishing off his chores. He was a real laboor. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  incompetence (lack of ability) + pretence (the act of pretending; a false claim) <em>Created by:<\/em> CharlieB.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Empleon<\/strong>:  \/<em>EM-ple-on<\/em>\/ my husband can be an empleon when he &#8216;doesn&#8217;t know&#8217; how to wash the car. <em>Etymology:<\/em>   <em>Created by:<\/em> ArtistInTraining.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Incompedense<\/strong>:  \/<em>1nk\u00c9\u2018mp\u00c9\u2122d\u00c9\u2122ns<\/em>\/ Josh has shown in numerous ways that he is a smart kid. He has successfully completed a number of video games. His grades are good. But when his mom asks for assistance, he is the picture of imcompedense. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  incompetence (not having or showing the necessary skills to do something successfully) + dense (stupid) <em>Created by:<\/em> artr.<\/p>\n<p>To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:<br \/> <br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=trash\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=trash<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Be Creative, <\/p>\n<p>James<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\">www.verbotomy.com<\/a><br \/>\nthe create-a-word game<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEFINITION: n. A specialized inability, or area of &#8220;chosen incompetency&#8221;, based on an individual&#8217;s need to avoid certain unpleasant tasks. v. To avoid responsibility by claiming incompetence. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Circumevent: \/sir kum eev ent\/ Brad was able to make garbage day a circumevent until he discovered one day that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1156\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Circumevent: But I don&#8217;t know how to take out the garbage!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[90,83,82,93,84,89,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}