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To do someone a favour or service like you would do when obliging or being obliged, except you're doing so disingenuously to humour them, likely because doing so offers you an easier, quicker or more polite escape than expressing your disagreement, calling them out on their nonsense, or telling them to get lost.
They invited me to what they said was going to be a job interview, but when I attended it turned out to be a sales pitch for an MLM scheme; I **fauxbliged** by staying for the duration of it, thanked them at the end, then left and blocked them on all platforms.

**or**

He nattered on and on giving me a load of unhelpful advice I never asked for, but I did not have the energy to call him out on his drivel so I just **fauxbligingly** nodded along to his waffling.
fauxblige by jojowiththeflow October 8, 2026
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To do someone a favour or service like you would do when obliging, except you're doing so disingenuously to humour them, likely because that offers you an easier, quicker or more polite escape than expressing your disagreement, calling them out on their nonsense, or telling them to get lost.
They invited me to what they said was going to be a job interview, but when I attended it turned out to be a sales pitch for an MLM scheme; I fauxbliged by staying for the duration of it, thanked them at the end, then left and blocked them on all platforms.

He nattered on and on giving me a load of unhelpful advice I never asked for, but I did not have the energy to call him out on his drivel so I just fauxbligingly nodded along to his waffling.
fauxblige by jojowiththeflow October 8, 2026

Fauxbies 

She's got nice fauxbies.
Fauxbies by 432mm December 4, 2010

Fauxlice 

Security guards or other fake police who believe that they actually have some power over you. Despite the fact that they only have a fucking squirt gun and a tazer instead of a magnum and a badge.
Dude 1: "I dunno if we should go over there man, that guard looks pretty big"

Dude 2: "Man, Fuck tha Fauxlice, that bitch is a badge and 2 balls short of scaring me!"
Fauxlice by Coombop October 19, 2008

Fauxlgers 

A shitty store-brand knockoff of Folgers coffee.
Brian: Hey, get any good coffee?

Meg: No, I went to Pick'n'Save for some own-brand Fauxlgers. It sucks at least as much as Folgers but was slightly cheaper.

Brian: Jesus! Next time get some real coffee, and preferably from a store that doesn't suck so much.

Meg: 10-4. I have a headache now.

Brian: No shit.
Fauxlgers by dirtyragamuffin April 13, 2014

fauxlite 

fō'līt adj.

Fake politeness, usually displayed in public settings. People who are fauxlite are perceived to be very sweet and innocent by their casual friends, but can be devious, manipulative and mean. A fauxlite person's true colors only shine through by accident, or are demonstrated to those in their circle of trust -- a.k.a. their family. Also, those who see through this facade are coldly received by the fauxliter. **Friends rarely, if ever, believe that a fauxliter could ever be anything but nice and kind.**

Fauxliters are often martyrs who decline any offer of help/assistance (so as not to impose), laugh really loud and overzealously at jokes, buy/make random gifts, and say yes to almost anything their friends ask of them.
Michelle: My mom is such a jerk. She called me a thief and a liar and was yelling at me on the phone today.

Gary: No way! Your mom is SO nice! She baked me a cake for no reason. She would never say those things!

Michelle: Oh please! She is so fauxlite it makes me want to vomit. You just don't see it because you're not related to her.
fauxlite by dinosaur lunchbox September 24, 2009

fauxlice car 

a car that looks like a police car but driven by a civilian
when you park in the fire lane at the wal-mart you should drive your fauxlice car
fauxlice car by pokeyz123 August 4, 2014
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