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31invective — *abuse, vituperation, obloquy, scurrility, billingsgate Analogous words: vilifying or vilification, maligning, calumniation, traducing (see corresponding verbs at MALIGN): *animadversion, stricture, aspersion, reflection …
32scandal — 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 * …
33scurrility — *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) …
34slander — n calumny, *detraction, backbiting, scandal Analogous words: defamation, vilification, aspersion, traducing (see corresponding verbs at MALIGN): *abuse, vituperation, invective, obloquy, scurrility slander vb defame, libel, calumniate, *malign,… …
35insulting — adj 1. offensive, slighting, Archaic. af frontive, disobliging, outrageous; disparaging, denouncing, derogatory, denunciable, discreditable, depreciating; disdainful, contemptuous, contemning, contemni ble, supercilious, contumelious, scouting,… …
36slighting — adj 1. offensive, insulting, Archaic. affrontive, disparaging, denouncing, derogatory, depreciating; disdainful, contemptuous, contemning, contemnible, supercilious, contumelious, scouting, flouting; scornful, derisive, jeering, ridiculing,… …
37traduce — UK [trəˈdjuːs] / US [trəˈdus] verb [transitive] Word forms traduce : present tense I/you/we/they traduce he/she/it traduces present participle traducing past tense traduced past participle traduced mainly literary to say things that will harm… …
38traduce — /trəˈdjus / (say truh dyoohs) verb (t) (traduced, traducing) to speak evil or maliciously and falsely of; slander, calumniate, or malign: to traduce someone s character. {Latin trādūcere transport, disgrace} –traducer, noun …
39abusive — [adj] exhibiting unkind behavior or words calumniating, castigating, censorious, contumelious, defamatory, derisive, disparaging, insolent, insulting, invective, libelous, maligning, obloquious, offensive, opprobrious, reproachful, reviling, rude …
40defamatory — [adj] libelous, slanderous abusive, calumnious, contumelious, denigrating, derogatory, detracting, detractive, disparaging, injurious, insulting, maligning, opprobrious, traducing, vilifying, vituperative; concepts 267,537 Ant. approving,… …
