{"id":1403,"date":"2012-02-03T12:00:21","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T17:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1403"},"modified":"2012-02-03T12:00:21","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T17:00:21","slug":"scamboozle-but-why-did-you-say-yes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1403","title":{"rendered":"Scamboozle: But why did you say &#8220;yes&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>v.<\/em> To win approval by carefully omitting any and all facts which may put the &#8220;correct&#8221; decision in jeopardy. <em>n.<\/em> A form of persuasion, or perhaps deceit, which is based on selective omissions.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/stimulus.gif\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Scamboozle<\/strong>:  \/<em>Skam-boo-zuld<\/em>\/ I saved us \u00c2\u00a330k costs by hiring a \u00c2\u00a350k efficiency expert. I scamboozled my boss into thinking it was a good thing by omitting the experts fee. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  From Scam (to cheat or defraud with a scam) and bamboozle (to perplex; mystify; confound. Synonyms: befog, bewilder, puzzle, baffle, dumbfound) <em>Created by:<\/em> Negatrev.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oddorable<\/strong>:  \/<em>odd-DOR-ah-bul<\/em>\/ &#8220;That hipster girl over there is oddorable.&#8221;  <em>Etymology:<\/em>   <em>Created by:<\/em> msergienko.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Subdupe<\/strong>:  \/<em>sub-dupe<\/em>\/ The only way to convince the arachnophobes of my proposals, is to subdupe them about the escaped tarantula. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Subdue &#8211; to suppress, hold back.<br \/>\nDupe &#8211; con, swindle, trick <em>Created by:<\/em> fendallwit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Concealsensus<\/strong>:  \/<em>kuhn-seel-sen-suhs<\/em>\/ The manager has been known to omit a few details in an effort to reach a concealsensus.  <em>Etymology:<\/em>  conceal (hide, disguise) + consensus (general agreement) <em>Created by:<\/em> artr2.<\/p>\n<p>To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:<br \/> <br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=stimulus\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=stimulus<\/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: v. To win approval by carefully omitting any and all facts which may put the &#8220;correct&#8221; decision in jeopardy. n. A form of persuasion, or perhaps deceit, which is based on selective omissions. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Scamboozle: \/Skam-boo-zuld\/ I saved us \u00c2\u00a330k costs by hiring a \u00c2\u00a350k efficiency expert. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1403\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Scamboozle: But why did you say &#8220;yes&#8221;?<\/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\/1403"}],"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=1403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}