deflecting

What people do when they are afraid that people will judge them.
They pretend to be someone they're not so when people don't like them it doesn't bother them because, hey, it's not them.

a lot of mean people are just deflecting.

by Dummythicc May 3, 2020

deflecting

Blaming other people or things to avoid accountability for faults or mistakes.

"It's not his fault he became a bully. His mother spanks him for the smallest things."

"You are deflecting his bullying onto his upbringing rather than his emotional control."

by Interpreterator June 11, 2025

deflecting douche

The kind of person who uses esoteric phrases not in common parlance who when questioned tells you to google them rather than explaining themselves.

Rather than tell the detective what he meant by someone being "washed" he instead told him to google it like the deflecting douche he was.

by EffectiveDetective June 9, 2023

Deflecting to peripheral elements

It doesn't fucking matter if other people have or have had a worse life you fucking retard. That doesn't mean anything. That isn't an actual argument. Other people's lives being shit does not meant that I have to accept a mundane or sub par existence. I certainly don't have to accept a better life being stolen away from me by greedy inferior trash like you.

Hym "There goes the deflecting to peripheral elements! You see it? He also hit us with the 'unless you have kids' your life isn't more important than mine. Kill yourself. I hope your son gets fucked and hanged you piece of shit."

by Hym Iam March 18, 2024

Deflection

When politicians come under fire for missteps or failures, they often rely on the technique of trying to shift the focus onto others. In an attempt to duck responsibility, scrutiny, accountability, they often create "scapegoats" to shift blame onto. They try to lay their failures at the feet of others or make a way to justify them. They may try to shift the debate entirely onto a completely irrelevant and different subject. One example is to make a drastic decision that completely shifts focus from the previous subject of scrutiny onto this new drastic change or subject brought into light by the government. Seen commonly by politicians and on a less refined level , regular people supporting a political party or figure in arguments or debates, or as a psychological attempt to manipulate others in regular domestic situations. In politics the tactic is entirely strategic and is arguably one of the most devious and disreputable in the eyes of honest morality and accountability, but is quite common in politics around the world.

When Soviet leaders were questioned about human rights violations in the USSR, for example, they might've come back with, "Well, what about the Negroes that you Americans are lynching in the South?" - One example of a political deflection

by Old school bossman January 2, 2021

deleting later

a hoe's way of saying she will keep a picture forever for attention and comments

Hoe: don't worry, I'm deleting later.

136 weeks old

by Dumbfoundead September 17, 2015

Defecting The Children

used after one has had a skateboard, bicycle or rail smash into ones testicals, causing great amounts of pain, in some cases vomiting and even "broken balls disorder"

"Mark really Defected his children on that missed double peg"
"My brother defected the children after he tried a gardflip over a rail we spent 4 fucking hours in the hostipal"

by Torrance Dodge September 4, 2005