{"id":1621,"date":"2013-01-16T12:01:16","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T17:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1621"},"modified":"2013-01-16T12:01:16","modified_gmt":"2013-01-16T17:01:16","slug":"sinspire-santa-wont-come-unless-you-clean-up-your-desk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1621","title":{"rendered":"Sinspire: Santa won&#8217;t come unless you clean up your desk!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> To inspire and motivate people to do great things, by issuing petty threats.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/naughty2.gif\" alt=\"Santa won't come unless you clean up your desk!\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sinspire<\/strong>:  \/<em>sin spire<\/em>\/ When Vicky could not reason with her students, she would sinspire them with threats to do her bidding&#8230;which always worked! <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Sin (commit a faux pas or a fault) &amp; Inspire (supply the inspiration for; urge on or encourage) <em>Created by:<\/em> Nosila.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bullivate<\/strong>:  \/<em>boo\u00e2\u20ac\u2030l-ee-veyt<\/em>\/ Christine is very good at getting action out of people. She will bullivate her coworkers whenever she thinks they are getting complacent about doing her work. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  bully (a blustering, quarrelsome, overbearing person who habitually badgers and intimidates smaller or weaker people) + motivate (to give incentive to) <em>Created by:<\/em> artr.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Petrifimotivate<\/strong>:  \/<em>pe- tri- fi- MO-ti-vate<\/em>\/ The over controlling mother got her son to clean up his room by pretrifimotivating him with subtle reminders of his continuing bedwetting issues. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  A blend of petrify (with a play on the word petty) and motivate <em>Created by:<\/em> denise.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Intimivate<\/strong>:  \/<em>in-TIM-eh-vayt<\/em>\/ Miranda is a petty tyrant who will not hesitate to use silly little threats in a misguided effort to intimivate people to do her bidding. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Blend of &#8216;intimidate&#8217; (to force into or deter from some action by inducing fear) and &#8216;motivate&#8217; (to provide with a motive or motives; incite; impel) <em>Created by:<\/em> Mustang.<\/p>\n<p>To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:<br \/> <br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=naughty2\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=naughty2<\/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: To inspire and motivate people to do great things, by issuing petty threats. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Sinspire: \/sin spire\/ When Vicky could not reason with her students, she would sinspire them with threats to do her bidding&#8230;which always worked! Etymology: Sin (commit a faux pas or a fault) &amp; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1621\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sinspire: Santa won&#8217;t come unless you clean up your desk!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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\/1621"}],"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=1621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}