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revilement

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Main Entry: revilement
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: vituperation

Synonyms:

abuse, bad-mouthing, berating, billingsgate, blame, castigation, censure, contumely, criticism, defamation, insults, invective, libel, obloquy, railing, reprimand, reproach, reviling, scolding, scurrility, scurrilousness, slander, tirade, upbraiding, verbal abuse
Main Entry: abuse
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: verbal attack

Synonyms:

bad-mouthing, blame, castigation, censure, curse, curses, defamation, derision, hosing, insults, invective, kicking around, knifing, libel, obloquy, opprobrium, pushing around, put-down, quinine, reproach, revilement, scolding, signifying, slander, swearing, tirade, upbraiding, vilification, vituperation
Notes: abuse carries with it some sense of harm; misuse refers to an incorrect use that may not lead to harm
to misuse is to use something wrongly, to abuse is to misuse something so badly that you damage it

Antonyms:

acclamation, adulation, approval, commendation, plaudit, praise
Main Entry: detraction
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: misrepresentation; slander

Synonyms:

abuse, aspersion, backbiting, backstabbing, belittlement, calumny, damage, defamation, denigration, deprecation, derogation, disesteem, disparagement, harm, hit, hurt, injury, injustice, innuendo, insinuation, knock*, libel, libeling, lie, maligning, minimization, muckraking, obloquy, pejorative, revilement, ridicule, running down, scandal, scandalmongering, scurrility, slam, smear campaign, tale, traducement, traducing, vilification, vituperation, wrong

Antonyms:

admiration, adulation, flattery, praise
Main Entry: invective
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: verbal abuse

Synonyms:

accusation, berating, billingsgate, blame, blasphemy, castigation, censure, condemnation, contumely, denunciation, diatribe, epithet, jeremiad, obloquy, philippic, reproach, revilement, sarcasm, scurrility, tirade, tongue-lashing, vilification, vituperation

Antonyms:

compliment, flattery, praise
Main Entry: lie
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: untruth

Synonyms:

aspersion, backbiting, calumniation, calumny, deceit, deception, defamation, detraction, dishonesty, disinformation, distortion, evasion, fable, fabrication, falsehood, falseness, falsification, falsity, fib, fiction, forgery, fraudulence, guile, hyperbole, inaccuracy, invention, libel, mendacity, misrepresentation, misstatement, myth, obloquy, perjury, prevarication, revilement, reviling, slander, subterfuge, tale, tall story, vilification, white lie, whopper

Antonyms:

honesty, truth
Main Entry: objection
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: argument, disagreement

Synonyms:

cavil, censure, challenge, counter-argument, criticism, declination, demur, demurral, demurring, difficulty, disapprobation, disapproval, discontent, disesteem, disinclination, dislike, displeasure, dissatisfaction, doubt, exception, grievance, gripe, hesitation, kick, niggle, odium, opposition, protest, protestation, question, rejection, reluctance, remonstrance, remonstration, repugnancy, revilement, scruple, shrinking, squawk, stink*, unwillingness

Antonyms:

acceptance, agreement, concurrence, consent
Main Entry: tirade
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: abuse, outburst

Synonyms:

anger, berating, censure, condemnation, denunciation, diatribe, dispute, fulmination, harangue, invective, jeremiad, lecture, malediction, philippic, ranting, revilement, screed, sermon, tongue-lashing, vituperation

Antonyms:

calm, harmony, peace
Main Entry: billingsgate
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: vituperation

Synonyms:

abuse, abusive language, abusive talk, coarse words, foul language, foul talk, invective, obloquy, revilement, reviling, ribaldry, rough language, scurrility, scurrilousness, vulgarity
Main Entry: inveracity
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: lie

Synonyms:

aspersion, backbiting, calumniation, calumny, canard, cock-and-bull story, deceit, deception, defamation, detraction, dishonesty, disinformation, distortion, evasion, fable, fabrication, falsehood, falseness, falsification, falsity, fib, fiction, forgery, fraudulence, guile, hyperbole, inaccuracy, invention, libel, mendacity, misrepresentation, misstatement, myth, obloquy, perjury, prevarication, revilement, reviling, slander, story, subterfuge, tale, tall story, untruth, vilification, white lie, whopper
Main Entry: jeremiad
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: tirade

Synonyms:

anger, berating, censure, condemnation, denunciation, diatribe, dispute, fulmination, harangue, invective, lecture, malediction, philippic, ranting, revilement, screed, sermon, tongue-lashing, vituperation
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