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sadfished

sadfished is the simple past and past participle of sadfish.

Meaning of sadfish

Verb

sadfish (third-person singular simple present sadfishes, present participle sadfishing, simple past and past participle sadfished)

  1. (intransitive, neologism) To post about one's problems online for the sake of attracting attention and sympathy; to engage in sadfishing.
    • So we've all probably sadfished offline before, but online, there's a whiff of social desperation to it, just like there is any time people overshare on the internet.2023 September 7, “Why People On Social Media Feel Compelled To Share 'Sadfishing' Posts”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 09 Jun 2024

Questions about sadfished

What is sadfished the simple past and past participle of?
Sadfished is the simple past and past participle of sadfish.

Words near sadfished in the dictionary

  1. sadets
  2. SADF
  3. sadfic
  4. sadfics
  5. sadfish
  6. sadfished
  7. sadfishes
  8. sadfishing
  9. sadfuck
  10. sadfucks
  11. sadful

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sadfished (page history and authors); sadfish (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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