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A lawyer can be disbarred, and a priest can be defrocked.
There really ought to be like terms for being fired from other professions, jobs, or roles. In particular, punning ones. For example: I have no doubt we can come up with many more!  There are so many words that begin with dis- or de- or the like |
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A teacher can be declassified.
"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson. Read all about my travels around the world here. Read even more of my travel writing and poems on my weblog. My new blog - which I hope to keep more up to date than my old one. And don't miss this - my unpublished book, coming a chapter a week |
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The out-of-step soldier is a victim of decadence.
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"I see," said the blind carpenter as he picked up his hammer and saw.
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"Well, it's only a Pay Per View sailing over a blank CD ... "
(off the topic of dis-game .... just random puns) Let me know if the punishment doesn't fit the crime. |
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Is a discharged seaman disabled?
Come on you raver, you seer of visions, Come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine! |
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Will JK Rowling now be disenchanted?
"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson. Read all about my travels around the world here. Read even more of my travel writing and poems on my weblog. My new blog - which I hope to keep more up to date than my old one. And don't miss this - my unpublished book, coming a chapter a week |
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And hopefully come next election Gordon Brown will be devoted.
"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson. Read all about my travels around the world here. Read even more of my travel writing and poems on my weblog. My new blog - which I hope to keep more up to date than my old one. And don't miss this - my unpublished book, coming a chapter a week |
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The rock group was disbanded.
The poker player was discarded. The songwriter was decomposed. |
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The worried patient was diseased.
The newly-shorn Army recruit was distressed. |
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The rooster whose crown had just been cut off was discombobulated.
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The drawbridge keeper was demoted.
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The innocent maiden was dismissed (or was she divergent?
)The groom was debrided. The comedian was digested. [di-jested] Yes, and Hilary Clinton has been denominated. |
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Sorry, Hic, it's the divorced husband who was debrided! |
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The emptied box was discontented.
The lawyer was discounseled. The man who had to leave the Greek island was discrete. |
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No, hab. A groom has a bride, but a husband has a wife. If they're married long enough that you'd call him a husband (rather than a groom) then she is a wife (rather than a bride). So I still maintain that a groom is debrided. The divorced husband? He's despaired. And hab? Unless we get more of these from you, I'd say that the haberdasher wasw divested. The taxidermist was dismounted. The guitarist was discordant. The skunk was distinct. |
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But the bride was disengaged. |
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A horse is derided ...
Or is dismounted ... A sacked lighthouse-keeper is delighted ... A convict found with means of escaping is defiled ... Come on you raver, you seer of visions, Come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine! |
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Is the new Asian immigrant disoriented?
Is the excommunicated Bishop disgraced? They stole the cash register from the liquor store; was it distilled? When they lowered the rates at the bank, were they disinterested? A landowner was frantic because he lost his land while his attention wandered; was he distracted? The MIT student fell apart when he couldn't quite differentiate a complex function on his calculus final. He nearly disintegrated. A lawyer I know has bizarre ideas about right and wrong. According to him, everything is relative, so nothing is ever absolutely wrong. Are his views distorted? |
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Oh. And the cult leader whose flock left him apart was dissected, he said cuttingly.
And the Scotsman who was lambasted by his countrymen when he took elocution lessons to hide his accent was demonized. |
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The amusement park was defunct.
When the authorities visit our friend, JT, he is disjointed. When the stripper retired, she was desultory. ******* "Show your true colors. Mine is Yellow." ~Big Bird |
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It looks to me that Tross is being systematic, starting with the beginning of the alphabet and working forward. So I'll eyeball the other end. (of the alphabet, that is; not of Tross)
The fisherman was dewormed. The poet was diversified. The appraiser was devalued. The tennis pro was disadvantaged out. (Weak, I know.) The wine-maker was devinified. (Does that make up for the weak one?) |
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The butcher's order for organ-free meat was delivered.
When the teacher drops your test score from A to F for cheating == you've been degraded. If you're too tired to go to the party because you stayed up late letting all the tucks out of the waistband -- you're depleted. Can't even cast a lecherous eye on the oposite sex because or Brain Fever? You're delerious. |
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The anxious patient was diseased. [Aw heck, I see Hab used that one already. It's tough coming to this late!]
Here's a real dark one: The amputee was disarmed. Sorry! |
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What sort of suspected criminal would have...could have ... might have ... dis-tricked attorneys with equal vigor?
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They stopped trusting me, took my driver's license and threw me out when I reached age twenty-one - I've been discarded.
Then they found out I couldn't read well, and said I was dyslexic too, and there went my expensive car... |
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