Citations:induhvidual

English citations of induhvidual

Noun: "(slang, derogatory) a foolish person, especially one whose blundering creates difficulty for others"

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• 1997 — Richard von Busack, "Down on Dilbert", Metro Silicon Valley, 4 December 1997:

  Dilbert mocks the "induhviduals" who keep a man from doing his job, but on the larger issues of corporate malfeasance, Adams is mute.

• 1999 — Roger Craig Aden, Popular Stories and Promised Lands: Fan Cultures and Symbolic Pilgrimages, University of Alabama Press (1999), →ISBN, page 136:

  Those newsletters routinely feature examples of induhviduals at work, thanks to contributions from Dilbert readers. For example, "A friend… thought if he put all his Microsoft Word documents in a tiny font, they'd take up less room [on the disk] […]

• 1999 — Kim L. Serkes, "Draconian Plan", The San Francisco Chronicle, 30 November 1999:

  These are the same induhviduals who can't be bothered to pull their behemoths into the block-long bus zones fiercely defended by $250 fines.

• 2005 — David Heath, "The modern dilemma", Sydney Morning Herald, 8 July 2005:

  One of the most depressing sites was here: a fake manual entry for a program on UNIX systems designed to "control the clueless induhviduals [sic] who (mis)use computer systems."