{"id":1734,"date":"2013-06-21T12:06:36","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T16:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1734"},"modified":"2013-06-21T12:06:36","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T16:06:36","slug":"contice-but-why-did-you-say-yes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1734","title":{"rendered":"Contice: 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>Contice<\/strong>:  \/<em>kon tyse<\/em>\/ Lola confessed to her bff Wendy that her on-line date had been able to contice her by omitting every other line in his bio&#8230; <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Con (fool, trick) &amp; Entice (lure;seduce;lead-on) <em>Created by:<\/em> Nosila.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conscammate<\/strong>:  \/<em>CON-scam-mayt<\/em>\/  It was with malice and forethought that Lauren decided to pull a conscammate on Humphrey during their courtship by simply leaving out many details of her somewhat lurid past.  <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Blend of &#8216;con&#8217; (involving abuse of confidence), &#8216;scam&#8217; (To defraud; swindle) and &#8216;mate&#8217; ( husband or wife; spouse) a play on the word &#8216;consummate&#8217; ( to complete (an arrangement, agreement, or the like) by a pledge or the signing of a contract)  <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=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) Contice: \/kon tyse\/ Lola confessed to her bff Wendy that her on-line date &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1734\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Contice: But why did you say &#8220;yes&#8221;?<\/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\/1734"}],"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=1734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}