Dictionnaire Diabolique's definitions

senseless violence

Violence whose sense fails to accord with your political ideology.

Vice President Mike Pence tweeted about the "senseless violence" in Las Vegas.

by Dictionnaire Diabolique October 2, 2017

like buzz

The endorphin rush that follows a well received social media post.

Posted it an hour ago and I've already got 467 likes. Got a serious like buzz going on here!

by Dictionnaire Diabolique January 24, 2017

alternative facts

Bullshit.

Grant was caught having sex with his wife's best friend. And there was smoking-gun proof: a sex-tape made by a private investigator hired to check up on him. But Kellyanne says she can get him off. She's gonna present his wife with some alternative facts.

by Dictionnaire Diabolique January 30, 2017

covidy

adj. Related to, suffering from, or seeming to suffer from COVID-19 or the ill-effects of the quarantine.

For instance: “Damn, John, that’s a pretty covidy haircut you’ve got there.” Or: “That sweaty covidy cougher in the grocery store was freaking me out.”

by Dictionnaire Diabolique April 16, 2020

networker

A person who treats human beings like instruments and pretends to care about people they don’t care about because they think they might be useful to them at some point in the future. Networkers are often very good at active listening.

God, I hate that guy! Never stops scheming. He's such a networker.

by Dictionnaire Diabolique January 23, 2017

cc-ebomber

Machiavellian colleague who regularly sends out passive-aggressive emails, cc-ing everyone, whose sole purposes are to: take credit for other people’s work; cast aspersions on colleagues; and give their superiors the impression that they’re taking care of business. As you might expect, cc-ebombers are much-loved by ill-informed management, and much-despised by those who actually have to work with them.

Can't stand that guy. He's such a cc-ebomber.

by Dictionnaire Diabolique January 23, 2017

off the charts

In Garrison Keillor’s Lake Wobegon, “all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.” But in the real world, exceptional people are exceptional. If you say “off the charts” often, there’s something wrong with your charts.

I knew he was a clueless tool when he used the expression “off the charts” three times in one hour.

by Dictionnaire Diabolique January 23, 2017