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  • 61mock — Synonyms and related words: Parthian shot, abuse, adopt, affect, affected, affront, alike, alternate, alternative, ape, aped, apocryphal, appropriate, artificial, aspersion, assume, assumed, atrocity, back answer, backup, bamboozle, barrack,… …

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  • 62outrage — Synonyms and related words: abomination, abuse, afflict, affront, aggrieve, anger, aspersion, atrocity, attack, bad, bane, barbarism, barbarity, batter, befoul, befoulment, bewitch, bitterness, blight, breach, brickbat, bruise, brutality, buffet …

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  • 63slight — Synonyms and related words: Lenten, Spartan, abstemious, adulterated, affront, airy, ankle deep, ascetic, asinine, attenuate, attenuated, austere, bantam, be blind to, be caught out, be inattentive, be unwary, belittle, blink, blink at, boyish,… …

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  • 64taunt — Synonyms and related words: Bronx cheer, Parthian shot, accuse, affront, allege, annoy, arraign, article, aspersion, atrocity, back answer, banter, barrack, book, brickbat, bring accusation, bring charges, bring to book, bug, burlesque, call… …

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  • 65affront — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. & n. insult, slight, snub. See disrespect. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. insult, indignity, offense; see insult . v. Syn. offend, insult, slight, provoke; see insult , offend . See Synonym Study at offend …

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  • 66insult — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. slap, abuse, affront, offend. See discourtesy. n. out rage; slap, affront. See disrespect. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. indignity, offense, affront, abuse, contumely, ill treatment, scurrility,… …

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  • 67Resentment — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Resentment >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 resentment resentment displeasure animosity anger wrath indignation Sgm: N 1 exasperation exasperation bitter resentment wrathful indignation GRP: N 2 Sgm: N …

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  • 68blasphemy — 1 Blasphemy, profanity, swearing, cursing are comparable when meaning impious or irreverent speech. Blasphemy, the strongest term (see also PROFANATION), applies strictly to an intentional or malicious utterance in which the Supreme Being is… …

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  • 69offense — 1 offensive, aggression, *attack Analogous words: assault, *attack, onslaught, onset 2 Offense, resentment, umbrage, pique, dudgeon, huff are comparable when they mean a person s emotional reaction to what he regards as a slight, an affront, an… …

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  • 70insult — in•sult v. [[t]ɪnˈsʌlt[/t]] n. [[t]ˈɪn sʌlt[/t]] v. t. 1) to treat or speak to insolently or with contemptuous rudeness; affront 2) to affect as an affront; offend or demean 3) archaic to attack; assault 4) archaic to behave with insolent… …

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