diplomacy 

The act of telling someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.

Typical U.S. diplomacy:

"Yeah, we've just killed 200,000 innocent civilians, but you gotta break a few eggs to make an omelet, right?

diplomacy by C-Mills February 22, 2008

diplomacy 

The ability to be able to say "Good dog" while reaching for a beat-down stick

"That's cruel!"
"No, that's diplomacy."

diplomacy by Anonymous June 30, 2003

Diplomacy 

An awesome Avalon-Hill board game of strategy, tactics, negotiation, and (best of all) backstabbing.

Players play any one of 7 pre-WWI European countries and try to take over the rest. Gameplay can be best described as a cross between Risk and chess. Risk, because of the map-based, multi-player world domination aspect, chess, because the strategies are complex even though the rules may be simple. In addition, like chess, Diplomacy is the only other board game with popularity in the play-by-mail or play-by-email form.
A backstab is often abbreviated as "stab."

Player 1: What'd you do that for!? I thought we agreed to DMZ the English Channel!
Player 2: All is fair in love, war and Diplomacy.

Diplomacy by moskatoe June 29, 2008

diplomacy 

1) Is the ability to tell someone that they are full of shit and having them fully understanding and agreeing with you before you've finished explaining why.
2) Knowing how to sound like you agree with an opposing view while tactfully bringing the opposition around to your way of thinking.

Talking your way out of a traffic ticket takes tact and diplomacy.

diplomacy by cunninglinguist April 26, 2005

diplomacy 

Resisting the urge to slap someone in the face and yell, "Liar!"

This is a quote from Susie Madrak, aka Urban Guerrilla, as posted at Crooks & Liars.

Clinton is only telling the truth as it suits the long-term Mideast strategy. For example, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ignored the settlement moratorium for which she's praising him -- but hey, that's what diplomacy is

diplomacy by peacearena September 20, 2010

Diplomacy 

The are of letting someone else have your way.

"She decided to be diplomatic and let him buy the diamond necklace that she really wanted." "Well that was mean." "No, that was diplomacy."

Diplomacy by crash01 February 24, 2010

diplomacy 

Vague threats balanced by obscure promises and photo-ops.

"We, uh, didn't know that bomb would do that. Sorry. Don't piss us off again, and we won't have to bother with this diplomacy bullshit."

diplomacy by Schlichtinator July 17, 2006