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101hit — v 1. strike, smite, thwack, slap, smack, Australian. ding; cuff, buffet, knock, punch, box, sandbag, Scot. dunt, Scot, and North Eng. paik, Inf. clout, Inf. slug, Inf. whack, Inf. knock [s.o. s] block off, Inf. wallop, Inf. crown, Sl. conk, Dial …
102iconoclastic — adj 1. image breaking, bubble bursting; denunciatory, condemning, censuring, aspersive, maligning; critical, carping, faultfinding; oppositional, antagonistic, adversative, challenging. 2. antichristian, antireligious, impious, irreverent,… …
103insult — v 1. affront, slight, Sl. put down, Sl. cut up, give offense to, disoblige; call names, Sl. rank out, fling dirt at, slap in the face, point at; denounce, decry, disparage, discredit, vilipend, depreciate, minimize; disdain, contemn, scout,… …
104insulting — adj 1. offensive, slighting, Archaic. af frontive, disobliging, outrageous; disparaging, denouncing, derogatory, denunciable, discreditable, depreciating; disdainful, contemptuous, contemning, contemni ble, supercilious, contumelious, scouting,… …
105invective — n 1. diatribe, tirade, philippic, denunciation; disparagement, discrediting, depreciation, deprecation, insinuation, belittlement, minimization; objurgation, fulmination, contumely, berating, upbraiding, scolding, tongue lashing; castigation,… …
106revilement — n 1. vituperation, assailment, abuse, attack, belaboring; curse, execration, imprecation, malediction, anathematization; invective, railing, fulmination, upbraiding, objurgation, contumely, berating, scolding, tongue lashing; censure, reproach,… …
107slighting — adj 1. offensive, insulting, Archaic. affrontive, disparaging, denouncing, derogatory, depreciating; disdainful, contemptuous, contemning, contemnible, supercilious, contumelious, scouting, flouting; scornful, derisive, jeering, ridiculing,… …
108malign — I UK [məˈlaɪn] / US verb [transitive] Word forms malign : present tense I/you/we/they malign he/she/it maligns present participle maligning past tense maligned past participle maligned to say unpleasant things about someone or something, usually… …
109abusive — [adj] exhibiting unkind behavior or words calumniating, castigating, censorious, contumelious, defamatory, derisive, disparaging, insolent, insulting, invective, libelous, maligning, obloquious, offensive, opprobrious, reproachful, reviling, rude …
110defamatory — [adj] libelous, slanderous abusive, calumnious, contumelious, denigrating, derogatory, detracting, detractive, disparaging, injurious, insulting, maligning, opprobrious, traducing, vilifying, vituperative; concepts 267,537 Ant. approving,… …
