The In-Betweens

One of the better new words that you may occasionally hear is "frienemy." It means a person who is both a friend and a foe. Most of us have encountered people like that. Perhaps we've even been that person.

It is a helpful word.

And that got me to thinking about other odd but realistic combinations. Think of words for the following:

1. When you know a great deal about a topic but have the gnawing sense that you might be missing something very important.
2. A form of conduct you wouldn't want legally banned but which nonetheless makes you wish there were a common societal restraint upon it.
3. When kindness or caring is so great that it begins to harm people.
4. When busyness becomes a form of sloth.
5. When humility becomes arrogance.
6. When people will excuse every nation's conduct except their own.
7. A cloaked form of autocracy.
8. Weakness disguised as boldness. 
9. Rewarding failure with a promotion. ["Reprimotion?"]
10. Neutrality which actually favors or punishes a side.