Curving

[Luis Fok]

its like ghosting but more brutal, cause they wanna seem nice, maybe they take days, or even weeks, to reply to your last WhatsApp message.

But instead of leaving you hanging (Like a ghostwrited would ), a [curver] will reply, but their responses will be sporadic, closed off and often [apologetic] e.g. “I’m so sorry for not textin, I’ve just been really busy with insert predictable excuse here”.

Of course, they really might have been too occupied with work, family, friends, or the [washing up] to take a minute out of their day to message to you ....... or not

[Dave Paprocki]

present participle of curve