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lindened 

verb: Screwed up, botched, ruined. Something is said to be "lindened" when a situation is made worse by an action that was intended to make things better.

This word originated in the Second Life community in response to the chronic troubles following Second Life upgrades.
My brakes were squeaking a bit so I got them worked on - now they are completely lindened - it won't stop at all.
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lindened 

made worse by an attempt at improvement

The car was having some troubles before I got my cousin to work on it, but now I can't drive it at all, it's totally lindened.
lindened by DracoVulkan May 9, 2007
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Lindenmeyer 

When your teacher takes 2 or more weeks to grade a project.
Person 1: Dude our teacher is such a Lindenmeyer.
Person 2: I know right, he hasn't graded that project yet and its been like 2 weeks!
Lindenmeyer by AAtticus October 22, 2019

Linen Cabinet 

A group of official Presidential Advisors who are blatantly racist, homophobic, Islamophobic, anti-Semitic, and otherwise driven by mendacity in service of hate.
We've had Jackson's "Kitchen Cabinet "to go along with the regular "Parlor Cabinets" but before Donald Trump no-one had the audacity to nominate a Linen Cabinet.
Linen Cabinet by paulpaxman November 15, 2016

lindened 

The process of taking something, and in an effort to improve it, making it worse.

Particularly as applied to softwear programs, wherein updates generally result in more bugs than they fix, or more old features broken than new ones introduced.

"He told me he was going to fix my car, but now it's all Lindened and won't even start."
lindened by Cocoanut May 8, 2007

linenazi 

someone who is extremely bitchy about there line.
Geez, that teacher is a total linenazi.
linenazi by hansonnet April 25, 2010

Lingenfresser 

Yiddish for a person or child that keeps on pestering or nagging. The literal meaning is a lungeater.
Sidney! Stop pestering me, you lingenfresser.
Lingenfresser by Murray Haldanish September 19, 2019