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DEFINITION: v., To pretend that you like something that you don't, in hopes that someone else will like your pretensions. n., A person who doesn't like what they actually like, and pretends to like what other people like.
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Justapose
Created by: badsnudge
Pronunciation: just-uh-pose
Sentence: Fergus would justapose liking hip-hop music to maintain his delusionary cool status among fliends but in private he would only listen to polkas.
Etymology: just a pose(er) + juxtapose fliend/ false friend
Brocclick
Created by: MissJones
Pronunciation: Brocc - as in 'broccolli Lick - as in 'lick'
Sentence: I brocclicked my way through that meal. Tofu? Argh!
Etymology:
Canuluvmeleon
Created by: Mrgoodtimes
Pronunciation: Can you love me leon
Sentence: Tim couldn't understand why none of the girls at the gym would date him, he did all the exercises they loved to do.. yoga, bust strengthening, petite self defense... he was the saddest of all the canuluvmeleons.
Etymology: Can you love me? - Chameleon
Sociophony
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: SO-see-oh-fone-ee
Sentence: Always looking for opportunities to impress dates, employers and influential people, Gilbert has become an absolutely shameless sociophony who would do or say anything be popular.
Etymology: Blend of 'social' and 'phony'
Fauxvor
Created by: MrDave2176
Pronunciation: foh-vor
Sentence: Marge alway fauxvored the cinnamon raisin bagels at work since they were always the last to go, not knowing that Mark only bought them because he thought she liked them.
Etymology: Faux (fake) + (Fa)vor (prefer)
Pretenjoyment
Created by: Aoterra
Pronunciation: pre-ten-joy-ment
Sentence: Expressing pretenjoyment is a must at church suppers, especially if the deacon's wife is a terrible cook.
Etymology: pretense: pretend;claim or allege insincerely + enjoyment: take pleasure from or joy in
Sycophabricate
Created by: bayview5377
Pronunciation: sik-oh-FAB-ri-cate (v) or sik-oh-FAB-ri-kit (n)
Sentence: I wanted the cute redhead to like me so when she told me she was a Steelers fan I had to sycophabricate my response. I want to be a sophisticate but what I did makes me a sycophabricate.
Etymology: From the words "sycophant", meaning a self-serving servile flatterer, and "fabricate", meaning to make up something untrue.
Fakeatron
Created by: Midedra
Pronunciation: Fake - a - tron
Sentence: God, he's such a fakeatron!
Etymology:
Padulate
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: PAJ-uh-leyt
Sentence: With Roxie following a diet consisting only of wheat grass, fruit and mineral water, Bob cunningly padulated its benefits, while surreptitiously breakfasting on steak, sausages and chips - organic, of course - at Padoulis' "Parthenon" Cafe.
Etymology: Padulate: blending of adulation & pad, meaning to create a false impression by adding, padding, embellishing, or exaggerating details of your adulation for something.
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COMMENTS:
your etymology convinced me - Jabberwocky, 2007-11-28: 15:55:00
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Sociofraud
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: SO-see-oh-frawd
Sentence: Sheldon was always looking for opportunities to impress dates, employers and influential people and had become an absolutely shameless sociofraud and would do or say anything to achieve popularity.
Etymology: Blend of social and fraud

Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by Mustang and remistram. Thank you Mustang and remistram! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by Mustang. Thank you Mustang. ~ James