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backstabbing
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backstabbing
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Related Words:
backbiting
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abuse
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animadversion
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backstabbing
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belittlement
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calumnious
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calumny
,
defamation
,
defamatory
,
depreciation
,
detracting
,
disparagement
,
invective
,
maligning
,
obloquy
,
reflection
,
scandal
,
scandalous
,
slander
,
slanderous
,
stricture
,
tale
,
vilifying
,
vituperation
detraction
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the act of discrediting or detracting from someone's reputation (especially by slander); "let it be no detraction from his merits to say he is plainspoken"
a petty disparagement
related words >
aspersion
,
backbiting
,
backstabbing
,
belittlement
,
calumniation
,
calumny
,
character assassination
,
damage
,
defamation
,
depreciation
,
disparagement
,
harm
,
hurt
,
injury
,
injustice
,
libel
,
libeling
,
maligning
,
scandal
,
slander
,
sycophancy
,
tale
,
vilification
,
wrong
calumny
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related words >
abuse
,
animadversion
,
backbiting
,
backstabbing
,
belittlement
,
bitchiness
,
calumniation
,
cattiness
,
contumely
,
defamation
,
depreciation
,
disparagement
,
invective
,
libel
,
obloquy
,
opprobrium
,
reflection
,
revilement
,
scandal
,
scurrility
,
slander
,
stricture
,
tale
,
traducement
,
vilification
,
vituperation
defamation
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a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions
related words >
attack
,
backbiting
,
backstabbing
,
belittlement
,
blackening
,
calumny
,
character assassination
,
defamation of character
,
defilement
,
denigration
,
depreciation
,
disparagement
,
malicious defamation
,
muckraking
,
mudslinging
,
name-calling
,
revilement
,
scandal
,
slander
,
smear
,
smear campaign
,
smear word
,
tale
,
vilification
character assassination
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an attack intended to ruin someone's reputation
related words >
attack
,
backbiting
,
backstabbing
,
belittlement
,
blackening
,
calumny
,
defamation
,
defamation of character
,
defilement
,
denigration
,
depreciation
,
dirt
,
dirty politics
,
disparagement
,
gossip column
,
juicy morsel
,
last-minute lie
,
malicious defamation
,
malicious gossip
,
muckraking
,
mudslinging
,
mudslinging campaign
,
name-calling
,
political canard
,
revilement
,
roorback
,
scandal
,
scandalmongering
,
slander
,
smear
,
smear campaign
,
smear word
,
tidbit
,
vilification
,
whispering campaign
slander
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words falsely spoken that damage the reputation of another
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asperse
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assail
,
attack
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backbite
,
backbiting
,
backstabbing
,
barefaced lie
,
belie
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belittlement
,
bitchiness
,
blackwash
,
calumniate
,
calumniation
,
calumny
,
cattiness
,
character assassination
,
consummate lie
,
damage
,
decry
,
defamation
,
defamation of character
,
defame
,
denigrate
,
depreciation
,
dirt
,
disparage
,
disparagement
,
gossip column
,
hurt
,
injure
,
juicy morsel
,
libel
,
malicious gossip
,
malign
,
misrepresentation
,
monstrous lie
,
muckrake
,
muckraking
,
obloquy
,
out-and-out lie
,
roorback
,
scandal
,
scandalmongering
,
slur
,
smear
,
strumpet
,
tale
,
tear down
,
the big lie
,
tidbit
,
traduce
,
traducement
,
vilification
,
vilify
,
whispering campaign
,
whopper
sycophancy
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fawning obsequiousness
related words >
adulation
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apple-polishing
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ass-kissing
,
backbiting
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backscratching
,
backstabbing
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belittlement
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blandishment
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blarney
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bootlicking
,
brown-nosing
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bunkum
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cajolement
,
cajolery
,
calumny
,
compliment
,
cringing
,
defamation
,
depreciation
,
disparagement
,
eyewash
,
fair words
,
fawnery
,
fawning
,
flattery
,
flunkyism
,
footlicking
,
grease
,
groveling
,
handshaking
,
honeyed phrases
,
honeyed words
,
incense
,
ingratiation
,
insinuation
,
mealymouthedness
,
obeisance
,
obsequiousness
,
oil
,
palaver
,
parasitism
,
praise
,
pretty lies
,
prostration
,
scandal
,
slander
,
soap
,
soft soap
,
sponging
,
sweet nothings
,
sweet talk
,
sweet words
,
timeserving
,
toadeating
,
toadying
,
toadyism
,
truckling
,
tufthunting
,
wheedling
scandal
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disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people
a disgraceful event
related words >
abomination
,
abuse
,
asperse
,
aspersion
,
atrocity
,
backbiting
,
backstabbing
,
bad
,
badge of infamy
,
belittlement
,
bitchiness
,
black mark
,
black spot
,
blemish
,
burning shame
,
byword
,
byword of reproach
,
calumniate
,
calumniation
,
calumny
,
cattiness
,
character assassination
,
damage
,
defamation
,
defame
,
defilement
,
degradation
,
denigrate
,
depreciation
,
desecration
,
dirt
,
dirty shame
,
discredit
,
disgrace
,
dishonor
,
disparagement
,
disrepute
,
embarrassment
,
error
,
evil
,
gossip column
,
humiliation
,
ignominy
,
infamy
,
iniquity
,
innuendo
,
insinuation
,
juicy morsel
,
knavery
,
libel
,
low-down dirty shame
,
malicious gossip
,
obliquity
,
obloquy
,
outrage
,
peccancy
,
pity
,
profanation
,
reproach
,
reprobacy
,
sacrilege
,
scandalize
,
scandalmongering
,
shame
,
sin
,
slander
,
slur
,
smear
,
smirch
,
spot
,
stigma
,
taint
,
tale
,
terrible thing
,
tidbit
,
traducement
,
villainy
,
violation
,
whispering campaign
,
wrong
disparagement
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the act of speaking contemptuously of
a communication that belittles somebody or something
related words >
airs
,
animadversion
,
arrogance
,
aspersion
,
attaint
,
attrition
,
backbiting
,
backstabbing
,
badge of infamy
,
bar sinister
,
baton
,
belittlement
,
bend sinister
,
black eye
,
black mark
,
blot
,
blur
,
brand
,
broad arrow
,
calumny
,
censure
,
champain
,
clannishness
,
cliquishness
,
contempt
,
contemptuousness
,
contumely
,
curtailment
,
cut
,
cutting
,
decrease
,
decrement
,
defamation
,
denigration
,
depletion
,
deprecation
,
depreciation
,
derogation
,
despisal
,
despite
,
detraction
,
diminution
,
dip
,
discommendation
,
discourtesy
,
disdain
,
disdainfulness
,
disesteem
,
dishonor
,
dispraise
,
disrespect
,
disrespectfulness
,
disvaluation
,
exclusiveness
,
extraction
,
hauteur
,
impairment
,
impudence
,
imputation
,
insolence
,
insult
,
irreverence
,
lack of respect
,
lessening
,
mark of Cain
,
minimization
,
misestimation
,
misprision
,
misprizal
,
misprizing
,
onus
,
pillorying
,
point champain
,
reduction
,
reflection
,
remission
,
reprimand
,
reproach
,
retraction
,
retrenchment
,
ridicule
,
scandal
,
scorn
,
scornfulness
,
shortening
,
shrinkage
,
slander
,
slur
,
smear
,
smirch
,
smudge
,
smutch
,
sniffiness
,
snobbishness
,
snootiness
,
snottiness
,
sovereign contempt
,
spot
,
stain
,
stigma
,
stigmatism
,
stigmatization
,
stricture
,
superciliousness
,
taint
,
tale
,
tarnish
,
toploftiness
,
truncation
,
underestimate
,
underestimation
,
underrating
,
underreckoning
,
undervaluation
tale
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account
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aggregate
,
all
,
amount
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anecdotage
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anecdote
,
back-fence gossip
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backbiting
,
backstabbing
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be-all and end-all
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belittlement
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blague
,
box score
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calumny
,
canard
,
cast
,
chitchat
,
chronicle
,
cock-and-bull story
,
count
,
defamation
,
depreciation
,
difference
,
disparagement
,
entirety
,
enumerate
,
epic
,
epos
,
exaggeration
,
fabrication
,
fairy tale
,
falsehood
,
falsification
,
falsity
,
farfetched story
,
farrago
,
fib
,
fiction
,
fish story
,
flam
,
flimflam
,
ghost story
,
gossip
,
gossiping
,
gossipmongering
,
gossipry
,
groundless rumor
,
half-truth
,
history
,
idle talk
,
legal fiction
,
libel
,
lie
,
little white lie
,
mendacity
,
misrepresentation
,
myth
,
narration
,
narrative
,
newsmongering
,
number
,
numerate
,
piece of gossip
,
pious fiction
,
prevarication
,
product
,
quantity
,
recital
,
reckoning
,
record
,
report
,
rumor
,
saga
,
scandal
,
score
,
scuttlebutt
,
slander
,
slight stretching
,
story
,
sum
,
sum total
,
summation
,
talebearing
,
taletelling
,
talk
,
tall story
,
tall tale
,
tally
,
taradiddle
,
tattle
,
tell
,
the bottom line
,
the story
,
the whole story
,
tittle-tattle
,
total
,
totality
,
tote
,
trumped-up story
,
untruth
,
white lie
,
whole
,
x number
,
yam
,
yarn
depreciation
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a decrease in price or value; "depreciation of the dollar against the yen"
decrease in value of an asset due to obsolescence or use
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abatement
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ablation
,
abridgment
,
agio
,
alleviation
,
allowance
,
attenuation
,
attrition
,
backbiting
,
backstabbing
,
bank discount
,
belittlement
,
belittling
,
break
,
breakage
,
calumny
,
cash discount
,
chain discount
,
charge-off
,
cheapening
,
comedown
,
concession
,
consumption
,
contempt
,
contraction
,
curtailment
,
cut
,
cutting
,
dampening
,
damping
,
debasement
,
decadence
,
decadency
,
declension
,
declination
,
decline
,
decrease
,
decrement
,
decrescence
,
decrial
,
deduction
,
defamation
,
deflation
,
deformation
,
degeneracy
,
degenerateness
,
degeneration
,
degradation
,
demotion
,
denigration
,
depletion
,
depravation
,
depravedness
,
deprecation
,
depression
,
derogation
,
descent
,
deterioration
,
detraction
,
devaluation
,
devolution
,
diminishment
,
diminution
,
dip
,
disapproval
,
discommendation
,
discount
,
discrediting
,
disgrace
,
disparagement
,
dispraise
,
dissipation
,
disvaluation
,
dive
,
downtrend
,
downturn
,
downward mobility
,
downward trend
,
drain
,
drawback
,
drop
,
dying
,
dying off
,
ebb
,
effeteness
,
erosion
,
evaporation
,
exhaustion
,
expenditure
,
extenuation
,
extraction
,
fade-out
,
fading
,
failing
,
failure
,
failure of nerve
,
faint praise
,
fall
,
falling-off
,
impairment
,
impoverishment
,
indignity
,
involution
,
kickback
,
knocking
,
languishment
,
lapse
,
leakage
,
lessening
,
letup
,
loss of tone
,
lowering
,
lukewarm support
,
markdown
,
miniaturization
,
minimization
,
minimizing
,
misestimation
,
misprision
,
misprizal
,
misprizing
,
mitigation
,
nose dive
,
penalty
,
penalty clause
,
percentage
,
plummet
,
plummeting
,
plunge
,
premium
,
price cut
,
price fall
,
price reduction
,
price-cut
,
putting down
,
rebate
,
rebatement
,
reduction
,
refund
,
regression
,
relaxation
,
remission
,
retraction
,
retrenchment
,
retrocession
,
retrogradation
,
retrogression
,
ridicule
,
rollback
,
sag
,
sagging
,
salvage
,
scaling down
,
scandal
,
setoff
,
shortening
,
shrinkage
,
simplicity
,
slander
,
slash
,
slighting
,
slippage
,
slump
,
sour grapes
,
subtraction
,
tale
,
tare
,
time discount
,
trade discount
,
tret
,
truncation
,
underestimate
,
underestimation
,
underrating
,
underreckoning
,
underselling
,
undervaluation
,
using
,
using up
,
wane
,
wastage
,
waste
,
weakening
,
wearing
,
wearing away
,
write-off
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