Maledictory

  • 41defamatory — adj 1. denigrating, vituperative, vil ipenditory, critical, condemnatory, denunciatory, disapprobatory, disapproving, imprecating, maledic tive, maledictory; scandalous, shocking, flagrant, notorious, outrageous; shameful, disgraceful,… …

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  • 42denunciatory — adj censorious, reproachful, condemnatory, fulminatory; damnatory, maledictory, comminatory; accusatory, imputative, incriminatory, recriminatory …

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  • 43deprecatory — adj 1. censuring, reproachful, op probious, impeaching, slating, inveighing, reproving, recriminating, reprehensive, reprobative, reprobating; denunciatory, denunciating, railing, cursing, condemnatory, maledictory, anathematizing; berating,… …

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  • 44hypercritical — adj 1. overcritical, overabusive, over censorious; trenchant, defamatory, calumnious, denunciatory; cutting, maledictory, scurrilous, derogatory. 2. rigorous, exacting, pedantic, fussy; overparticular, hypercorrect, overscrupulous; severe,… …

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  • 45imprecatory — adj execratory, maledictory, denunciatory, damning, proscriptive; threatening, menacing, warning; blasphemous, slanderous …

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  • 46imputable — adj 1. attributable, ascribable, accred itable, creditable, referable, assignable; owing to, due to; associable, connectable. 2. accusable, chargeable, challengeable, allegeable, assertable, citable; implicatory, implicative, criminative,… …

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  • 47libelous — adj 1. defamatory, denigrating, vituperative, vilifying, vilipenditory; critical, denunciable, imprecatory, condemnatory, disapproving, disapprobatory, maledictory; scandalous, notorious, flagrant, outrageous; censurable, blameworthy, culpable,… …

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  • 48vile — adj 1. base, low, mean, sordid, bad; execrable, abominable, horrible, horrid, gruesome, monstrous, atrocious; dreadful, terrible, dire, grim, dark, black, baleful; accursed, cursed, damnable, damned; demonic, demoniac, diabolic, devilish, satanic …

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  • 49malediction — /mæləˈdɪkʃən / (say maluh dikshuhn) noun 1. a curse; the utterance of a curse. 2. slander. {late Middle English, from Latin maledictio abuse} –maledictory /mæləˈdɪktri/ (say maluh diktree), / təri/ (say tuhree), adjective …

  • 50malediction —   n. curse.    ♦ maledictive,    ♦ maledictory, a …

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