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    [Noun]  | "cry*bul*ly" | \ ˈkrī-ˌbu̇-lē \


    1: a person who falsely claims to be a victim or who feigns emotional pain in order to manipulate, coerce, or threaten others —often used before another noun


    Origin: 1999 ;

     {see: |cry(baby)|crybaby} + {see: |bully:1|bully:1};

      * Note : Introduction of the word has been attributed to the British writer Julie Burchill ("Meet the Cry-Bully: a hideous hybrid of victim and victor," The Spectator, April 21, 2015, online), though earlier use, perhaps nonce coinages, can be found.;

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     [ "crybully" ]

    1: A bully who harasses their victim, then goes crying fake tears to a person or group of authority or publicity claiming that their victim harassed them, in order to encourage them to wrongly persecute the victim as well.

      * e.g.,  ... Des was a notorious crybully, one time he kicked at people building sandcastles in the playground before running off, and by the time we helped clean up those that were hurt, he'd dragged back a teacher and claimed that we'd all ganged up on him! 

     [ "crybully" ]

    1: someone who attempts to use pity, or tears, to persuade someone else into ganging up on someone, or allying with their point of view

      * e.g.,  ... Girlfriend: Mike is such an abusive boyfriend, has he always been like this (mikes sister)? 

     [ "crybully" ]

    1: A chronic or serial protester/complainer who claims persecution/victimization based on phony, exaggerated or unverifiable transgressions, is overly sensitive to criticism, and uses harrassment and/or intimidation to silence others who question, doubt, or disagree with the complainer's position. This term became common when describing college campus protesters who organized demonstrations over spurious claims of "hate crimes" and demanded that their assumed victimization granted moral authority to demand that their critics be silenced.

      * e.g.,  ... "The crybully claimed that the frat boys hung a noose in the Student Center, but it turned out the girl who 'found' it put it there herself. They won't apologize for it, but still want to have their demonstration." 

     [ "crybully" ]

    1: A person who considers themselves a member of a victimized class who demands that those who don't agree with them be punished. The crybully is often overly-sensitive to perceived slights, but doesn't hesitate to label others. The crybully wears their victimhood as a badge of honor and relies on loud, angry slogans when their viewpoint is questioned. The crybully will attempt to shame their opponents into silence.

      * e.g.,  ... The crybully screamed at and cursed the Yale professor who suggested that the university's primary goal isn't to provide students a safe place where their perspectives are never questioned but to develop intellectual communities that can freely dialog about any topic. 

     [ "crybully" ]

    1: A person (most likely an SJW) who uses their own victim complex to bully someone into submission.

      * e.g.,  ... That protester demanding Halloween be banned is such a crybully. 

     [ "crybully" ]

    1: The kind of person that laughs as soon as the cops leave (either hauling somebody to jail or not) but runs to them and whines after instigating an incident.

      * e.g.,  ... The crybully only had tears in her eyes for show, she was usually too busy laughing at people to cry, except when it was time to try and get someone in trouble. 

     [ "crybully" ]

    1: A bully that pretends to be an underdog all the time.

      * e.g.,  ... The crybully kept kicking their hornets nest and thought it was real funny. 

     [ "crybully" ]

    1: A poser, someone that poses as a victim and thinks everyone else is a victim too (that everyone is innocent like animals).

      * e.g.,  ... The crybully got busted crying her fake tears to the police, until finally even they said to her if you call us one more time, you are going to be in big trouble! 

     [ "crybully" ]

    1: A dork that thinks they are tough.

      * e.g.,  ... Once I cleaned up a crybully or two, the authorities weren't getting their time wasted and neither were the other folks in town. The agitators were gone for hood now. 

     [ "Crybully" ]

    1: A person who goes out of their way to feel oppressed and usually goes further to suppress whatever is "oppressing" them.

      * e.g.,  ... Did you hear about the free yoga getting cancelled because some crybully claimed it was cultural appropriation? Those SJWs can get away with anything nowadays 

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