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| Main Entry: | derogatory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | offensive, uncomplimentary |
| Synonyms: | censorious, critical, damaging, defamatory, degrading, disdainful, disparaging, fault-finding, humiliating, injurious, malevolent, malicious, opprobrious, sarcastic, scornful, slanderous, slighting, spiteful, unfavorable, unflattering, aspersing, belittling, calumnious, contumelious, decrying, demeaning, deprecatory, depreciative, despiteful, detracting, dishonoring, maligning, minimizing, reproachful, vilifying |
| Antonyms: | appreciative, complimentary, favorable, flattering, praising |
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| Main Entry: | defamatory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | libelous, slanderous |
| Synonyms: | abusive, derogatory, disparaging, injurious, insulting, opprobrious, calumnious, contumelious, denigrating, detracting, detractive, maligning, traducing, vilifying, vituperative |
| Antonyms: | complimentary, approving, commending, exalting, praising |
| Main Entry: | degrading |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | debasing |
| Synonyms: | derogatory, disgraceful, humiliating, lowering, cheapening, demeaning, downgrading |
| Main Entry: | disadvantageous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | detrimental, inconvenient |
| Synonyms: | adverse, contrary, damaging, deleterious, derogatory, disparaging, downside, harmful, hurtful, ill-timed, inexpedient, injurious, inopportune, objectionable, pejorative, prejudicial, slighting, unfavorable, unprofitable, debit-side, depreciative, depreciatory, detracting, dyslogistic, on the debit side, uncomplimentary |
| Antonyms: | advantageous, convenient, helpful, well-timed |
| Main Entry: | disreputable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dishonorable, lowly |
| Synonyms: | abject, bad, base, beggarly, cheap, contemptible, derogatory, despicable, disgraceful, disorderly, dissolute, ignominious, infamous, inglorious, lewd, libidinous, licentious, mean, notorious, opprobrious, scandalous, shabby, shady, shameful, shocking, shoddy, sordid, sorry, unprincipled, vicious, vile, discreditable, in bad, in low esteem, in the doghouse, no good, pitiable, scurvy |
| Antonyms: | decent, ethical, honorable, reputable, respected, principled |
| Main Entry: | insulting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | abusive |
| Synonyms: | biting, degrading, derogatory, discourteous, disparaging, disrespectful, hurtful, insolent, offensive, repulsive, rude, slighting, uncivil, ridiculing |
| Main Entry: | pejorative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | negative, belittling |
| Synonyms: | derisive, derogatory, disadvantageous, disparaging, irreverent, rude, slighting, unpleasant, debasing, deprecatory, depreciatory, detracting, detractive, detractory, uncomplimentary |
| Antonyms: | complimentary, positive, praising |
| Main Entry: | sharp-tongued |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | critical |
| Synonyms: | biting, carping, cutting, cynical, derogatory, harsh, hypercritical, mean, nasty, sarcastic, satirical, belittling, censuring, condemning, cursing, demeaning |
| Main Entry: | slighting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | abusive |
| Synonyms: | derisive, derogatory, disparaging, offensive, opprobrious, belittling, maligning |
| Main Entry: | critical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fault-finding, detracting |
| Synonyms: | analytical, biting, captious, carping, censorious, choleric, critic, cutting, cynical, demanding, derogatory, diagnostic, discerning, discriminating, disparaging, exacting, finicky, fussy, hairsplitting, hypercritical, lowering, niggling, particular, penetrating, sarcastic, satirical, scolding, severe, sharp, trenchant, withering, belittling, calumniatory, caviling, cavillous, censuring, condemning, demeaning, disapproving, exceptive, humbling, nagging, nit-picking, overcritical, reproachful |
| Antonyms: | complimentary, laudatory, praising |
| Main Entry: | destructive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hurtful, disparaging |
| Synonyms: | abrasive, adverse, antagonistic, caustic, contrary, corrosive, deleterious, derogatory, detrimental, discouraging, hostile, injurious, negative, offensive, opposed, troublesome, vicious, cankerous, discrediting, erosive, invalidating, undermining |
| Antonyms: | encouraging, hopeful, positive |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Main Entry: | defamation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
abusive, black-mouthed, bumptious, calumniatory, calumnious, cavalier, contemptible, contemptuous, contumelious, cynical, defamatory, derisive, derogatory, despicable, despised, detracting, detractory, disdainful, disparaging, downtrodden, foul-mouthed, foul-tongued, haughty, libelous, maledicent, opprobrious, pejorative, pilgarlicky, pitiable, pitiful, sarcastic, sardonic, satirical, scornful, scurrile, scurrilous, slanderous, sniffy, supercilious, thersitical, turpid, unenvied, vilipendious, vituperative, wanky, withering
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| Main Entry: | dishonesty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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little, low, time, Machiavellian, abject, any, base, base, blackguard, contemptible, corrupt, crooked, dark, dead to honor, debased, degraded, derogatory, dirty, disgraceful, dishonest, dishonorable, disingenuous, disloyal, double, emptitious, faithless, false, false, fishy, foul, fraudulent, groveling, ignominious, indign, infamous, inglorious, insidious, knavish, lost to shame, louche, mean, mongrel, of bad faith, one, perfidious, perjured, pettifogging, rascally, recreant, scabby, schlenter, scrubby, scurvy, shabby, slippery, sneaking, treacherous, trothless, trustless, truthless, unauthenticated, unbecoming, unbefitting, unbeseeming, unchivalric, unconscientious, unconscionable, undignified, unfair, unfaithful, ungentlemanlike, ungentlemanly, unhandsome, unknightly, unmanly, unscrupulous, untrustworthy, venal, vile, wicked
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