{"id":1780,"date":"2013-08-21T12:01:47","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T16:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1780"},"modified":"2013-08-21T12:01:47","modified_gmt":"2013-08-21T16:01:47","slug":"lugubriate-i-wish-this-tree-was-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1780","title":{"rendered":"Lugubriate: I wish this tree was dead."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>v.<\/em> To ignore anything positive and focus your energy on problems, disasters, and whatever bad news you find. <em>n.<\/em> A person who searches for, and feeds on, other people&#8217;s weaknesses, failures and mistakes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/woodpecker.gif\" alt=\"I wish this tree was dead.\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lugubriate<\/strong>:  \/<em>loo-GOO-bree-ayt<\/em>\/ 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. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Blend of  &#8216;Lugubrious&#8217; (mournful, dismal, or gloomy, esp. in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner) with suffix &#8216;-ate&#8217; (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) <em>Created by:<\/em> Mustang.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sinnic<\/strong>:  \/<em>sin nik<\/em>\/ 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! <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Sin (commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake) &amp; Cynic (someone who is critical of the motives of others)<br \/>\n <em>Created by:<\/em> Nosila.<\/p>\n<p>To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:<br \/> <br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=woodpecker\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=woodpecker<\/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 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&#8217;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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1780\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lugubriate: I wish this tree was dead.<\/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\/1780"}],"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=1780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}