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Ordealism 

When too many people are involved in a decision which involves all persons engaging in an activity, and it becomes too difficult to decide where to go, or how to execute the plan.
We were all supposed to go out, but noone could agree on which restaurant, who would ride with who, there was so much ordealism that some of us lost interest in even going.
Ordealism by Bellairegirl October 10, 2011
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ordealic 

adj: (also ordelic) describes a situation where one would experience a stressful, traumatic or otherwise uncomfortable event ot series of events
Jason's visit to the department of motor vehicles was ordealic because he waited on line for about four hours and visited many clerks only to be told that the vehicle he had purchased was stolen.
ordealic by dkarez4u March 17, 2010
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Noun, a method of educating deaf children by speech and lipreading alone, without and/or banning the use of sign language.

With the result that deaf children grow up without learning eg. English language, and instead learns eg. British Sign Language from older children in school playgrounds.

Such deaf people end up with a deaf sounding voice, and poorly educated with a reading age of 9, unemployed or in unskilled labour.

Adj. Oralist.
oralism by Kerb November 28, 2004

ordealistic 

Drawn to activities that have an element of suffering.
He's so ordealistic that every vacation he takes involves some trek from hell or other form of suffering.
ordealistic by Cynicool May 7, 2019

Orderism 

The philosophy of always keeping things orderly.
If you are trying to keep things nice and orderly, you are pursuing Orderism.
Orderism by PopulousMaster February 1, 2020

OrelIsMoral 

probably the silliest kidshat user, smooches her
"omg OrelIsMoral this is us fr"
OrelIsMoral by impemoji March 9, 2023

Stealthie 

when you're holding up your phone and making faces at it, as though you are taking a selfie, but you're really taking a picture of the person across from you or the wall or anything else that seems interesting but you don't want to be caught dead taking a picture of.

This action is often made more convincing by wiggling the eyebrows or opening the mouth, to pretend you're trying to get a Snapchat filter to work.
FRIEND A: "Did you just take a stealthie of me?"

FRIEND B (turning phone around): "no I was just using snapchat's new filter, see?"
Stealthie by gwenhyfar October 2, 2016
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