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shitheadery

shitheadery noun: behavior characteristic of a shithead.

Noun

shitheadery (uncountable)

  1. (derogatory, slang, vulgar) Behavior characteristic of a shithead.
    • In a conversation with a teacher at another school, I brought up suspensions, and she told even more striking tales of tomfoolery and shitheadery at her school.2017, Tom Rademacher, It Won’t Be Easy: An Exceedingly Honest (and Slightly Unprofessional) Love Letter to Teaching, Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, page 115
    • Chelsea took German because she’d heard that the universities there offered free tuition, even to foreign students. Four more years, she’d said, and I can tell them all to take their fucked-up lives and their trust fund and their codependent shitheadery and shove it up whatever orifice they got...2020, Sarah Zettel, chapter 3, in A Mother’s Lie, New York, N.Y.: Grand Central Publishing, →ISBN

Examples of shitheadery in a sentence

  • Refused burgery goodness on grounds of prior shitheadery, he threatened an employee’s life.2020 September 16, Kevin L. Hoover, “Arcata Police Log: The Era of Annoyance cedes to the Age of Aggressive Obnoxiousness”, in Mad River...
  • It’s praising them for their shitheadery. / Anyone who believes that the world operates on a basis of right and wrong has never been to secondary school.2021, Sara Barnard, Destination Anywhere, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, →ISBN, page 16:

Origin of shitheadery

From shithead + -ery.

Questions about shitheadery

What does shitheadery mean?
Shitheadery means behavior characteristic of a shithead.
How do you use shitheadery in a sentence?
Refused burgery goodness on grounds of prior shitheadery, he threatened an employee’s life.
What part of speech is shitheadery?
Shitheadery is a noun.

Words near shitheadery in the dictionary

  1. shith**ds
  2. shithead
  3. shitheaded
  4. shitheadedly
  5. shitheadedness
  6. shitheadery
  7. shitheads
  8. shitheap
  9. shitheaps
  10. shitheel
  11. shitheels

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