| Main Entry: | scurrility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | obscenity |
Synonyms: |
X-rating, abomination, affront, atrocity, bawdiness, blight, blueness, coarseness, curse, dirtiness, dirty name, dirty word, evil, filthiness, foulness, four-letter word, grossness, immodesty, impropriety, impurity, indecency, indelicacy, lewdness, licentiousness, lubricity, offense, outrage, porn, pornography, profaneness, profanity, prurience, salacity, scatology, scurrilousness, sleaze, smut, smuttiness, suggestiveness, swearword, vileness, vulgarity, vulgarness, wrong |
| Main Entry: | scurrility |
| 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, revilement, reviling, scolding, scurrilousness, slander, tirade, upbraiding, verbal abuse |
| 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | obscenity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indecency, immorality; vulgarism |
Synonyms: |
X-rating, abomination, affront, atrocity, bawdiness, blight, blueness, coarseness, curse, dirtiness, dirty name, dirty word, evil, filthiness, foulness, four-letter word, immodesty, impropriety, impurity, indecency, indelicacy, lewdness, licentiousness, lubricity, offense, outrage, porn, pornography, profanity, prurience, salacity, scatology, scurrility, sleaze, smut, smuttiness, suggestiveness, swearword, vileness, vulgarity, wrong |
Antonyms: |
cleanness, decency, innocence, morality, propriety, purity, uprightness |
| Main Entry: | lewdness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indecency |
Synonyms: |
boorishness, brutishness, carnality, coarseness, concupiscence, corruptness, debauchery, depravity, dirtiness, dissoluteness, eroticism, erotism, evil, evilness, fleshliness, grossness, impurity, incontinence, incontinency, lasciviousness, lecherousness, lechery, libidinousness, licentiousness, lubricity, lustfulness, obscenity, pederasty, pornography, prurience, pruriency, raunchiness, ribaldry, ruttishness, salaciousness, salacity, satyriasis, scurrility, smut, smuttiness, unchastity, vileness, villainy, voluptuousness, vulgarity, wantonness, wickedness |
Antonyms: |
continency, decency, modesty |
| Main Entry: | bawdiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | obscenity |
Synonyms: |
coarseness, dirtiness, filthiness, foulness, grossness, lewdness, profaneness, profanity, scurrility, scurrilousness, smuttiness, vulgarity, vulgarness |
| 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 |