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indignity

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Main Entry: indignity
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: embarrassment, humiliation

Synonyms:

abuse, affront, backhanded compliment, contumely, discourtesy, dishonor, disrespect, grievance, injury, injustice, insult, obloquy, opprobrium, outrage, put-down, reproach, slap, slight, slur, snub, take-down, taunt

Antonyms:

dignity, esteem, honor, regard, respect
Main Entry: affront
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: an insult

Synonyms:

abuse, backhanded compliment, brickbat, dirty deed, indignity, injury, left-handed compliment, offense, outrage, provocation, put-down, slap in the face, slap, slight, slur, vexation, wrong
Notes: effrontery means shameless boldness or insulting presumptuousness while an affront is a deliberately offensive act or open insult

Antonyms:

appeasement, compliment, pleasantry
Main Entry: blasphemy
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: irreverence

Synonyms:

abuse, cursing, cussing, desecration, execration, heresy, impiety, impiousness, imprecation, indignity, lewdness, profanation, profaneness, profanity, reviling, sacrilege, scoffing, scurrility, swearing, vituperation

Antonyms:

godliness, piety, religion, religiousness, reverence
Main Entry: contempt
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: disdain, disrespect

Synonyms:

antipathy, audacity, aversion, condescension, contumely, defiance, derision, despisal, despisement, despite, disesteem, disregard, distaste, hatred, indignity, malice, mockery, neglect, recalcitrance, repugnance, ridicule, scorn, slight, snobbery, stubbornness

Antonyms:

admiration, affection, approbation, approval, endorsement, love, regard, respect, sanction
Main Entry: cut
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: insult

Synonyms:

abuse, hateful remark, indignity, offense

Antonyms:

compliment, nicety, praise
Main Entry: dishonor
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: state of shame

Synonyms:

abasement, abuse, affront, blame, degradation, discourtesy, discredit, disesteem, disfavor, disgrace, disrepute, ignominy, indignity, infamy, insult, obloquy, odium, offense, opprobrium, outrage, reproach, scandal, slight

Antonyms:

credit, esteem, honor
Main Entry: humiliation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: embarrassment

Synonyms:

abasement, affront, chagrin, comedown, comeuppance, condescension, confusion, degradation, discomfiture, disgrace, dishonor, humbling, ignominy, indignity, loss of face, mental pain, mortification, put-down, resignation, self-abasement, shame, submission, submissiveness, touché

Antonyms:

elevation, flattery, glorification, praise, success, triumph
Main Entry: injury
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: hurt, harm

Synonyms:

abrasion, abuse, affliction, affront, agony, bad, bite, blemish, boo-boo, bruise, burn, chop, cramp, cut, damage, deformation, detriment, discomfiture, disservice, distress, evil, fracture, gash, grievance, hemorrhage, ill, impairment, indignity, injustice, insult, laceration, lesion, libel, loss, mischief, misery, mutilation, nick, ouch, outrage, pang, ruin, scar, scratch, shock, slander, sore, sprain, stab, sting, suffering, swelling, trauma, twinge, wound, wrong

Antonyms:

aid, assistance, benefit, blessing, favor, good, health, help, right
Main Entry: insult
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: hateful communication

Synonyms:

abuse, affront, aspersion, black eye, blasphemy, cheap shot, contempt, contumely, derision, despite, discourtesy, disdainfulness, disgrace, disrespect, ignominy, impertinence, impudence, incivility, indignity, insolence, invective, libel, mockery, obloquy, offense, opprobrium, outrage, put-down, rudeness, scorn, scurrility, shame, slam, slander, slap, slap in the face, slight, snub, superciliousness, taunt, unpleasantry, vilification, vituperation

Antonyms:

compliment, flattery, praise
Main Entry: offense
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: insult, displeasure

Synonyms:

affront, aggression, assailment, assault, attack, battery, black eye, blitz*, blitzkrieg, dig*, dirty dig, harm, hit*, hurt, indignation, indignity, injury, injustice, left-handed compliment, mugging, onset, onslaught, outrage, push*, put-down, slam*, slap in the face, slight, snub, zinger

Antonyms:

kindness, pleasure
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