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Definitions by IAmPseudonyMeRoar!!!

monkey-with-a-shotgun 

Someone who isn't qualified to make life or death decisions, but is still entrusted with the power to do so.

Plural: "monkeys-with-shotguns"
If humans gave up our willingness to speak with one-another, we'd be no better than monkeys-with-shotguns.

The incompetent judge who sentenced that infant to life in prison was such a monkey-with-a-shotgun

functional-beauty 

Beauty derived from functionalism.

Adjective form: "functionally-beautiful"
My friend who is an engineer, will stare at the following things, like one gazes at fine art: Wood-burning-stoves, Stirling-engines, Opticas, Orinithropters, Theremins, Brachistichrone-curves, and Derigibles; because they have a functional-beauty derived from the elegant way they achieve their goals.

Many "functionalist" buildings are not functionally-beautiful, because the designers often forego the shortest/quickest paths in favor of a cumbersome grid-like floorplan.
Part of but not within or without, nor in possession of (an attribute object or entity).
They fused and became withof eachother.
withof by IAmPseudonyMeRoar!!! December 9, 2018

benneficial-detriment 

1) Something that your instincts warn you away from but which you can deduce as enticing.

2) A sacrifice or risk for an expected or predicted reward.
Plural: "beneficial-detriments".
Adjective: "beneficially-detrimental".
Antonym: "detrimental-benifit"
Exe: 1) brushing your teeth even though it makes your sensitive gums hurt, is a beneficial-detriment.

Exe: 2) It was a benneficial-detriment to lose my wrist that day, because my hand was pinned to the underside of a boulder; if I had avoided any detriment I'd've kept my hand and've died there.
1) Contraction of "and would have".

2) Contraction of "and have".
1) If they hadn't stopped that criminal he'd'a hurt my ma and've tried to hurt my sis!!

2) I have done the dishes and've taken out the trash.
and've by IAmPseudonyMeRoar!!! December 8, 2018

detrimental-benefit 

Something which 'just feels right', but becomes regrettable later.

Plural: detrimental-benefits

Adjective: detrimentally-beneficial
Antonym: beneficial-detriment
Eating that whole cake was a detrimental-benefit, because even though it was tasty, I'm fat now, and my career is as a model (😱) so I could lose my job!

professional-incompetence

Someone who is bad at what they do, someone who really doesn't know what they're talking about, but they do it in a way that seems outwardly proffessional.

Adjective form: proffessionally-incompetent
It Doug has so much professional-incompetence, he posts his own drivers-ed tutorials online, but he doesn't even know how to drive.

Sarah is professionally-incompetent, because she really does look like she knows what she is talking about, but the pros mock her, because to an outsider she looks like she can talk the talk AND walk the walk, but her catwalk is not a real catwalk; she would hurt herself on a real catwalk.