Accismus (ak-iz’-mus): A feigned refusal of that which is earnestly desired.
What? One-dozen hand-grenades and enough C-4 to blow the doors off the US Embassy? I am truly grateful and humbled by your birthday gifts, but I am unworthy of such magnificent and bountiful offerings. I beg of you, please, take these wonderfully murderous munitions back. Keep them until I have proven I deserve them.
Oh? You insist? Well in that case, I gratefully accept your death-dealing gifts! I will put them to good use immediately!
Here! Hot potato!
Ha ha!
Blam
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Definition courtesy of “Silva Rhetoricae” (rhetoric.byu.edu)
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