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91derogatory — derogatory, depreciatory, depreciative, disparaging, slighting, pejorative mean designed or tending to belittle. Derogatory may be used of one s own action or activity that tends to detract from his reputation or to lower him in the estimation of …
92detraction — detraction, backbiting, calumny, slander, scandal arecomparable when they denote either the offense of one who defames another or casts aspersions upon him or what is uttered by way of defamation or aspersion. Detraction stresses the injurious… …
93invective — *abuse, vituperation, obloquy, scurrility, billingsgate Analogous words: vilifying or vilification, maligning, calumniation, traducing (see corresponding verbs at MALIGN): *animadversion, stricture, aspersion, reflection …
94scandal — n 1 *offense, sin, vice, crime Analogous words: indignity, insult, *affront: offending or offense, outraging or outrage (see corresponding verbs at OFFEND): wrong, grievance, injury, *injustice 2 * …
95scurrility — *abuse, billingsgate, invective, vituperation, obloquy Analogous words: vilifying or vilification, maligning, traducing, calumniation (see corresponding verbs at MALIGN): reviling, berating, upbraiding, rating, scolding (see SCOLD) …
96vituperation — *abuse, invective, obloquy, scurrility, billingsgate Analogous words: *animadversion, aspersion, stricture, reflection: *attack, assault, onslaught, onset: condemnation, denunciation, censuring or censure (see corresponding verbs at CRITICIZE):… …
97abuse — v 1. misuse, misemploy, misapply, misappropriate; wrong, aggrieve, Inf. shaft, Inf. give [s.o.] the shaft, disrespect, Sl. do [s.o.] dirty, Sl. kick [s.o.] around; profane, pervert, prostitute; exploit, impose upon, take advantage of, walk all… …
98abusive — adj 1. affronting, insulting, offensive, off putting, unbearable, insufferable, intolerable, Brit. Inf. beastly, Archaic. affrontive; fulminatory, objurgatory, objurgative, contumelious; indecent, vulgar, obscene, lewd, licentious; smutty, filthy …
99affront — n 1. insult, slight, slur, dig, barb, Sl. put down; abuse, contumely, contempt, disdain, scorn; derision, ridicule, mockery; vilification, impugnment, traducement, aspersion, calumniation, calumny, obloquy; maligning, defamation, denigration,… …
100censorious — adj critical, faultfinding, captious, carping; complaining, animadversional, nagging, hair splitting, querulous, caviling; caustic, biting, vitriolic, cutting, trenchant, severe; disparaging, berating, derogatory, disapproving, disapprobatory,… …
