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101sully — I verb asperse, attaint, bedim, begrime, belittle, bemire, besmear, blacken, blemish, blot, blur, brand, contaminate, corrupt, daub, debase, decry, deface, defame, defile, degrade, denigrate, denounce, deprecate, depreciate, dirty, discredit,… …
102Plato: ethics and politics — A.W.Price I Plato followed his teacher Socrates into ethics by way of a question that remained central in Greek thought: what is the relation between the virtues or excellences (aretai) of character, and happiness (eudaimonia)?1 Both concepts… …
103abuse — Synonyms and related words: abuse of office, addiction, afflict, aggrieve, assail, assailing, assault, atrocity, attack, bark at, batter, befoul, befoulment, belittle, berate, berating, betongue, betray, betrayal, bewitch, billingsgate, bitter… …
104affront — Synonyms and related words: aggrieve, aspersion, atrocity, barb, beard, bell the cat, bid defiance, bite the bullet, brave, brazen, brazen out, breast, brickbat, bring before, bring forward, bring up, call names, call out, casus belli, challenge …
105belittle — Synonyms and related words: bedwarf, bring down, bring into discredit, bring low, criticize, cry down, de emphasize, debase, decry, degrade, denigrate, deprecate, depreciate, derogate, derogate from, detract from, diminish, disapprove of,… …
106contempt — Synonyms and related words: abhorrence, abjuration, abjurement, affront, antipathy, arrogance, aspersion, atrocity, audacity, aversion, bold front, boldness, brash bearing, brashness, brassiness, bravado, brazenfacedness, brazenness, brickbat,… …
107decry — Synonyms and related words: abuse, accuse, anathematize, anathemize, animadvert on, arraign, asperse, belittle, blame, bring down, bring into discredit, bring low, call to account, calumniate, cast blame upon, cast reflection upon, censure,… …
108denigrate — Synonyms and related words: asperse, bedarken, besmirch, bespatter, black, blacken, blackwash, blot, blotch, call names, calumniate, charcoal, cork, darken, defame, defile, deprecate, depreciate, despise, dinge, discommend, disdain, disparage,… …
109deprecate — Synonyms and related words: belittle, bemoan, bewail, de emphasize, denigrate, deplore, depreciate, derogate, despise, detract, discommend, discountenance, disdain, disesteem, disfavor, disparage, dispraise, disvalue, downplay, frown, hold in… …
110depreciate — Synonyms and related words: abate, ablate, abrade, abridge, abstract, abuse, allow, bate, beat down, belittle, break, bring down, bring into discredit, bring low, charge off, cheapen, compress, consume, cry down, curtail, cut, cut back, cut down …
