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- insult
collapse - a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of deliberate disrespect; "turning his back on me was a deliberate insult" related words >
- abase,
- abuse,
- affront,
- airs,
- arrogance,
- asperse,
- aspersion,
- atrocity,
- barb,
- be above,
- be contemptuous of,
- brickbat,
- call names,
- care nothing for,
- clannishness,
- cliquishness,
- contemn,
- contempt,
- contemptuousness,
- contumely,
- cut,
- debase,
- defamation,
- defame,
- degrade,
- deride,
- despise,
- despite,
- dig,
- discourtesy,
- disdain,
- disdainfulness,
- disgrace,
- dishonor,
- disoblige,
- disparage,
- disparagement,
- disprize,
- dump,
- dump on,
- enormity,
- exclusiveness,
- feel contempt for,
- feel superior to,
- fleer,
- fleer at,
- flout,
- flouting,
- gibe,
- gibe at,
- gird,
- give offense to,
- hauteur,
- hold beneath one,
- hold cheap,
- hold in contempt,
- humble,
- humiliate,
- humiliation,
- hurl a brickbat,
- ignominy,
- indignity,
- injure,
- injury,
- insolence,
- invective,
- jeer,
- jeer at,
- jeering,
- jibe at,
- libel,
- look down upon,
- misprize,
- mock,
- mockery,
- obloquy,
- offend,
- offense,
- opprobrium,
- outrage,
- put down,
- put-down,
- rank low,
- ridicule,
- rump,
- scoff,
- scoff at,
- scorn,
- scornfulness,
- scurrility,
- set at naught,
- shame,
- slander,
- slap,
- slight,
- slur,
- sneer,
- sneer at,
- sneeze at,
- sniff at,
- sniffiness,
- snobbishness,
- snootiness,
- snort at,
- snottiness,
- sovereign contempt,
- superciliousness,
- taunt,
- think nothing of,
- toploftiness,
- treat with indignity,
- uncomplimentary remark,
- vituperation
- abusive
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- characterized by physical or psychological maltreatment; "abusive punishment"; "argued...that foster homes are abusive"
- expressing offensive reproach related words >
- Rabelaisian,
- atrocious,
- back-biting,
- backhand,
- backhanded,
- belittling,
- bitchy,
- blackening,
- blameful,
- blasphemous,
- bludgeoning,
- blustering,
- browbeating,
- brutal,
- bulldozing,
- bullying,
- calumniatory,
- calumnious,
- catty,
- censorious,
- comminatory,
- condemnatory,
- contemptuous,
- contumelious,
- corrupt,
- crooked,
- cruel,
- cursing,
- damnatory,
- defamatory,
- degrading,
- denunciatory,
- deprecative,
- deprecatory,
- depreciative,
- depreciatory,
- derisive,
- derisory,
- derogative,
- derogatory,
- destructive,
- detractory,
- dirty,
- dishonest,
- disparaging,
- dysphemistic,
- epithetic,
- excommunicative,
- excommunicatory,
- execrating,
- execrative,
- execratory,
- fear-inspiring,
- filthy,
- foreboding,
- foul,
- fulminatory,
- harmful,
- hectoring,
- humiliating,
- hurtful,
- imminent,
- imprecatory,
- improper,
- incorrect,
- injurious,
- insolent,
- insulting,
- intimidating,
- invective,
- inveighing,
- judgmental,
- left-handed,
- libelous,
- lowering,
- maledictory,
- maligning,
- menacing,
- minacious,
- minatory,
- minimizing,
- misapplied,
- objurgatory,
- obscene,
- odious,
- offending,
- offensive,
- ominous,
- opprobrious,
- outrageous,
- pejorative,
- perverted,
- priggish,
- profane,
- raw,
- reproachful,
- reprobative,
- reviling,
- ribald,
- ridiculing,
- risque,
- rude,
- scandalous,
- scatologic,
- scoffing,
- scurrile,
- scurrilous,
- slanderous,
- slighting,
- smutty,
- terroristic,
- terrorizing,
- threatening,
- threatful,
- truculent,
- unspeakable,
- venal,
- vile,
- vilifying,
- vituperative,
- vulgar,
- wrong
- hateful
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- evoking or deserving hatred; "no vice is universally as hateful as ingratitude"- Joseph Priestly
- characterized by malice; "a hateful thing to do"; "in a mean mood" related words >
- abhorrent,
- abominable,
- acrid,
- antagonistic,
- antipathetic,
- arrant,
- atrocious,
- awful,
- baleful,
- base,
- beastly,
- belligerent,
- below contempt,
- beneath contempt,
- bitchy,
- bitter,
- blameworthy,
- brutal,
- caustic,
- clashing,
- colliding,
- conflicting,
- contemptible,
- contemptuous,
- crude,
- cussed,
- deplorable,
- despicable,
- despiteful,
- detestable,
- dire,
- disgusting,
- dreadful,
- egregious,
- enormous,
- evil,
- execrable,
- fetid,
- filthy,
- flagrant,
- forbidding,
- foul,
- full of hate,
- fulsome,
- grievous,
- gross,
- harmful,
- heinous,
- horrible,
- horrid,
- hostile,
- ignoble,
- infamous,
- iniquitous,
- invidious,
- lamentable,
- loathsome,
- lousy,
- malefic,
- maleficent,
- malevolent,
- malicious,
- malign,
- malignant,
- malodorous,
- mean,
- mephitic,
- miasmal,
- miasmic,
- monstrous,
- nasty,
- nauseating,
- nefarious,
- noisome,
- notorious,
- noxious,
- objectionable,
- obnoxious,
- obscene,
- odious,
- offensive,
- ornery,
- outrageous,
- pitiable,
- pitiful,
- quarrelsome,
- rancorous,
- rank,
- rebarbative,
- regrettable,
- repellent,
- reprehensible,
- repugnant,
- repulsive,
- revolting,
- rotten,
- sad,
- scandalous,
- schlock,
- scurvy,
- set against,
- shabby,
- shameful,
- shocking,
- shoddy,
- sickening,
- sordid,
- sore,
- spiteful,
- squalid,
- stinking,
- terrible,
- too bad,
- unclean,
- unlikable,
- venomous,
- vile,
- villainous,
- virulent,
- vitriolic,
- wicked,
- woeful,
- worst,
- worthless,
- wretched
- derisive
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- abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule; "derisive laughter"; "a jeering crowd"; "her mocking smile"; "taunting shouts of `coward' and `sissy'" related words >
- abusive,
- arrogant,
- audacious,
- aweless,
- back-biting,
- bantering,
- belittling,
- biggety,
- bitchy,
- blackening,
- blameful,
- bluff,
- bold,
- booing,
- brash,
- brassy,
- brazen,
- bumptious,
- calumniatory,
- calumnious,
- catcalling,
- catty,
- censorious,
- chaffing,
- challenging,
- cheeky,
- chutzpadik,
- cocky,
- condemnatory,
- contemptuous,
- contumelious,
- crusty,
- damnatory,
- daring,
- defamatory,
- defiant,
- defying,
- denunciatory,
- deprecative,
- deprecatory,
- depreciative,
- depreciatory,
- derisory,
- derogative,
- derogatory,
- detractory,
- discourteous,
- disdainful,
- disparaging,
- disregardful,
- disrespectful,
- execrating,
- execrative,
- execratory,
- facy,
- fleering,
- flip,
- flippant,
- fooling,
- fresh,
- gally,
- gratuitous,
- greatly daring,
- grinning,
- hissing,
- hooting,
- impertinent,
- impudent,
- insolent,
- invective,
- inveighing,
- irreverent,
- jeering,
- joshing,
- judgmental,
- kidding,
- leering,
- libelous,
- malapert,
- minimizing,
- mocking,
- nervy,
- objurgatory,
- panning,
- pejorative,
- pert,
- priggish,
- quizzical,
- ragging,
- railing,
- rallying,
- razzing,
- regardless of consequences,
- reproachful,
- reprobative,
- reviling,
- ridiculing,
- roasting,
- rude,
- sassy,
- saucy,
- scandalous,
- scoffing,
- scurrile,
- scurrilous,
- slanderous,
- slighting,
- smart,
- smart-alecky,
- smart-ass,
- smirking,
- sneering,
- snickering,
- sniggering,
- snorting,
- taunting,
- teasing,
- twitting,
- uncalled-for,
- vilifying,
- vituperative,
- wise-ass
- cavalier
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- a royalist supporter of Charles I during the English Civil War
- a gallant or courtly gentleman
- given to haughty disregard of others related words >
- Bayard,
- Casanova,
- Don Juan,
- Don Quixote,
- Gawain,
- Lancelot,
- Lothario,
- Ritter,
- Romeo,
- Sidney,
- Sir Galahad,
- abrupt,
- aggressive,
- amoroso,
- arrogant,
- bachelor,
- banneret,
- baronet,
- bearish,
- beastly,
- beau,
- bluff,
- blunt,
- bodyguard,
- boyfriend,
- brash,
- broncobuster,
- brusque,
- buckaroo,
- caballero,
- cavaliere servente,
- cavalryman,
- chaperon,
- chevalier,
- churlish,
- circus rider,
- companion,
- conductor,
- contemptuous,
- contumelious,
- convoy,
- cowboy,
- cowgirl,
- cowpuncher,
- crusty,
- curt,
- disdainful,
- dismissive,
- duenna,
- equestrian,
- equestrienne,
- escort,
- esquire,
- fellow,
- fellow traveler,
- flame,
- gallant,
- gaucho,
- gigolo,
- gruff,
- guard,
- harsh,
- haughty,
- high-and-mighty,
- horse soldier,
- horseback rider,
- horsebacker,
- horseman,
- horsewoman,
- inamorato,
- insolent,
- jockey,
- knight,
- knight bachelor,
- knight banneret,
- knight baronet,
- knight-errant,
- lady-killer,
- lofty,
- love-maker,
- man,
- mounted policeman,
- necker,
- old man,
- overbearing,
- petter,
- philanderer,
- postboy,
- postilion,
- puncher,
- rider,
- rough,
- roughrider,
- safe-conduct,
- seducer,
- severe,
- sharp,
- sheik,
- shepherd,
- short,
- snippy,
- squire,
- steeplechaser,
- sugar daddy,
- supercilious,
- superior,
- surly,
- swain,
- trick rider,
- truculent,
- usher,
- vaquero,
- young man
- nervy
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- showing or requiring courage and contempt of danger; "the nervy feats of mountaineers" related words >
- agitated,
- all nerves,
- apprehensive,
- beefy,
- biggety,
- bluff,
- bold,
- bouncing,
- brash,
- bulldoggish,
- cheeky,
- chutzpadik,
- cocky,
- contemptuous,
- crusty,
- derisive,
- discomposed,
- disquieted,
- disrespectful,
- disturbed,
- doughty,
- edgy,
- excitable,
- excited,
- facy,
- fearful,
- feverish,
- fidgety,
- flip,
- flippant,
- flurried,
- flustered,
- forceful,
- forcible,
- forcy,
- forward,
- fresh,
- frightened,
- full-blooded,
- full-strength,
- gally,
- game,
- gamy,
- goosey,
- gratuitous,
- gritty,
- gutsy,
- gutty,
- hale,
- hard,
- hard as nails,
- hardy,
- hearty,
- hefty,
- high-strung,
- husky,
- impertinent,
- impudent,
- iron-hard,
- irritable,
- jerky,
- jittery,
- jumpy,
- lusty,
- malapert,
- mettlesome,
- mighty,
- nerves on edge,
- nervous,
- obstinate,
- on edge,
- overstrung,
- panicky,
- pert,
- pertinacious,
- perturbed,
- plucky,
- potent,
- powerful,
- puissant,
- red-blooded,
- resolute,
- restive,
- restless,
- robust,
- robustious,
- rude,
- ruffled,
- rugged,
- sassy,
- saucy,
- shaken,
- shaken up,
- smart,
- smart-alecky,
- smart-ass,
- spirited,
- spiritful,
- spooky,
- spunky,
- stalwart,
- steely,
- stirred up,
- stout,
- strapping,
- strong,
- strong as brandy,
- strong as strong,
- strong-willed,
- sturdy,
- tenacious,
- tense,
- tough,
- troubled,
- troublous,
- turbulent,
- twitchy,
- twittery,
- uncalled-for,
- uneasy,
- unpeaceful,
- unquiet,
- unrestful,
- upset,
- uptight,
- vigorous,
- wise-ass
- Sanforizing,
- acerb,
- acerbate,
- acerbic,
- acid,
- acidic,
- acidulent,
- acidulous,
- acrid,
- acrimonious,
- air-drying,
- anhydration,
- arrogant,
- atrophy,
- attenuation,
- baneful,
- biting,
- bitter,
- calamitous,
- cataclysmal,
- cataclysmic,
- catastrophic,
- caustic,
- clannish,
- cliquish,
- coming apart,
- consuming,
- consumption,
- consumptive,
- contemptuous,
- contumelious,
- corroding,
- corrosive,
- cracking,
- crumbling,
- cutting,
- deadly,
- decadent,
- declining,
- degenerate,
- dehumidification,
- dehydration,
- demolishing,
- demolitionary,
- depredatory,
- desiccation,
- desolating,
- destroying,
- destructive,
- deteriorating,
- devastating,
- disastrous,
- disdainful,
- disintegrating,
- doomful,
- drainage,
- draining,
- drooping,
- drying,
- drying up,
- dwindling,
- ebbing,
- effete,
- emaceration,
- emaciation,
- evaporation,
- exclusive,
- fading,
- failing,
- falling,
- fatal,
- fateful,
- flagging,
- fragmenting,
- fratricidal,
- going to pieces,
- haughty,
- incisive,
- insolation,
- internecine,
- keen,
- languishing,
- marcescence,
- marcescent,
- mordacious,
- mordant,
- mummification,
- nihilist,
- nihilistic,
- parching,
- penetrating,
- piercing,
- pining,
- preshrinkage,
- ravaging,
- regressive,
- retrograde,
- retrogressive,
- ruining,
- ruinous,
- scathing,
- scorching,
- scornful,
- searing,
- self-destructive,
- sharp,
- shrinkage,
- shrinking,
- shriveling,
- sinking,
- sliding,
- slipping,
- slumping,
- sneering,
- sniffy,
- snobbish,
- snobby,
- snooty,
- snotty,
- stabbing,
- stinging,
- subsiding,
- subversionary,
- subversive,
- suicidal,
- supercilious,
- tabetic,
- tart,
- thinning,
- toploftical,
- toplofty,
- trenchant,
- vandalic,
- vandalish,
- vandalistic,
- waning,
- wastage,
- waste,
- wasteful,
- wasting,
- wilting,
- worsening
- exclusive
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- a news report that is reported first by one news organization; "he got a scoop on the bribery of city officials"
- excluding much or all; especially all but a particular group or minority; "exclusive clubs"; "an exclusive restaurants and shops"
- not divided or shared with others; "they have exclusive use of the machine"; "sole rights of publication" related words >
- Olympian,
- a certain,
- absolute,
- aloof,
- an,
- any,
- any one,
- apart from,
- aristocratic,
- arrogant,
- article,
- atomic,
- barring,
- beat,
- budget of news,
- chic,
- chilly,
- choice,
- chosen,
- clannish,
- classy,
- cliquish,
- closed,
- cold,
- concentrated,
- confining,
- contemptuous,
- contumelious,
- cool,
- copy,
- dashing,
- debarring,
- defining,
- definitive,
- detached,
- disdainful,
- distant,
- either,
- elect,
- elegant,
- elite,
- ethnocentric,
- except for,
- excepting,
- exceptional,
- excluding,
- exclusive of,
- exclusory,
- fashionable,
- fixed,
- forbidding,
- frigid,
- frosty,
- haughty,
- high-hat,
- icy,
- ignoring,
- inaccessible,
- inadmissible,
- incompatible,
- individual,
- indivisible,
- inhibitive,
- inhibitory,
- inimical,
- insular,
- integral,
- interdictive,
- interdictory,
- irreducible,
- limitary,
- limitative,
- limited,
- limiting,
- lone,
- modish,
- monadic,
- monistic,
- narrow,
- news item,
- not counting,
- offish,
- omitting,
- one,
- only,
- parochial,
- pick,
- picked,
- piece,
- preclusive,
- preferred,
- prescriptive,
- preventive,
- private,
- privileged,
- prohibiting,
- prohibitive,
- prohibitory,
- proscriptive,
- remote,
- removed,
- repressive,
- restricted,
- restricting,
- restrictive,
- scoop,
- scornful,
- seclusive,
- segregative,
- select,
- selected,
- selective,
- separative,
- simple,
- single,
- singular,
- smart,
- sneering,
- sniffy,
- snobbish,
- snobby,
- snooty,
- snotty,
- sole,
- solid,
- solitary,
- spot news,
- standoff,
- standoffish,
- story,
- stylish,
- supercilious,
- suppressive,
- swank,
- swish,
- tony,
- toploftical,
- toplofty,
- trendy,
- unanalyzable,
- unapproachable,
- undistracted,
- undivided,
- uniform,
- unique,
- unitary,
- unshared,
- unswerving,
- whole,
- with-it,
- withdrawn,
- withering,
- xenophobic
- arrogant
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- having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride; "an arrogant official"; "arrogant claims"; "chesty as a peacock" related words >
- absolute,
- absolutist,
- absolutistic,
- affected,
- arbitrary,
- aristocratic,
- artificial,
- assuming,
- assured,
- audacious,
- authoritarian,
- authoritative,
- autocratic,
- big,
- bloated,
- boastful,
- bold,
- bossy,
- brash,
- brassy,
- brazen,
- bumptious,
- cavalier,
- challenging,
- cheeky,
- clannish,
- cliquish,
- cocksure,
- cocky,
- cold,
- conceited,
- condescending,
- confident,
- contemptuous,
- contumelious,
- convinced,
- cool,
- daring,
- decided,
- defiant,
- defying,
- derisive,
- despotic,
- determined,
- dictatorial,
- disdainful,
- disregardful,
- domineering,
- egotistical,
- exclusive,
- familiar,
- feudal,
- forward,
- greatly daring,
- grinding,
- haughty,
- high and mighty,
- high-and-mighty,
- high-faluting,
- high-flown,
- high-handed,
- high-headed,
- high-nosed,
- highfalutin,
- hoity-toity,
- hubristic,
- imperative,
- imperial,
- imperious,
- impertinent,
- important,
- impudent,
- insolent,
- insulting,
- lofty,
- lordly,
- magisterial,
- magistral,
- mannered,
- masterful,
- monocratic,
- obtrusive,
- oppressive,
- overbearing,
- overconfident,
- overpresumptuous,
- overruling,
- oversure,
- overweening,
- patronizing,
- peremptory,
- persuaded,
- pert,
- poised,
- pompous,
- pontifical,
- positive,
- presuming,
- presumptuous,
- procacious,
- proud,
- puffy,
- purse-proud,
- pushy,
- reassured,
- regardless of consequences,
- repressive,
- saucy,
- scornful,
- secure,
- self-assertive,
- self-assured,
- self-confident,
- self-important,
- self-reliant,
- severe,
- showy,
- sneering,
- sniffy,
- snobbish,
- snobby,
- snooty,
- snotty,
- strict,
- stuck-up,
- stuffy,
- supercilious,
- superior,
- suppressive,
- sure,
- swaggering,
- toploftical,
- toplofty,
- tyrannical,
- tyrannous,
- unafraid,
- undoubting,
- unfaltering,
- unhesitating,
- unwavering,
- uppish,
- uppity,
- upstage,
- vain,
- withering
- profane
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- not holy because unconsecrated or impure or defiled
- not sacred or concerned with religion; "sacred and profane music"; "children being brought up in an entirely profane environment" related words >
- Fescennine,
- Philistine,
- Rabelaisian,
- abuse,
- abusive,
- apostate,
- atheistic,
- backsliding,
- bad,
- bawdy,
- befoul,
- blasphemous,
- blue,
- calumniatory,
- calumnious,
- carnal,
- carnal-minded,
- coarse,
- comminatory,
- commit sacrilege,
- common,
- contaminate,
- contemptuous,
- contumelious,
- convert,
- corrupt,
- cursing,
- damnatory,
- debase,
- defalcate,
- defile,
- defiled,
- degrade,
- denunciatory,
- desecrate,
- dirty,
- disbelieving,
- dishonor,
- disrespectful,
- divert,
- dysphemistic,
- earthly,
- earthy,
- embezzle,
- epithetic,
- ethnic,
- excommunicative,
- excommunicatory,
- execratory,
- fallen,
- fallen from grace,
- filthy,
- fleshly,
- foul,
- foul-mouthed,
- fulminatory,
- gentile,
- godless,
- heathen,
- idolatrous,
- immodest,
- impious,
- imprecatory,
- improper,
- impure,
- indecent,
- indecorous,
- indelicate,
- infidel,
- infidelic,
- iniquitous,
- irreligious,
- irreverent,
- lapsed,
- lay,
- low,
- maladminister,
- maledictory,
- material,
- materialistic,
- misapply,
- misappropriate,
- misemploy,
- mishandle,
- mismanage,
- misuse,
- mundane,
- nasty,
- naughty,
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- peculate,
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- temporal,
- terrestrial,
- the fleshly,
- the mundane,
- the profane,
- the secular,
- the temporal,
- the unholy,
- the worldly,
- tref,
- unbelieving,
- unblessed,
- unclean,
- uncouth,
- undutiful,
- ungodly,
- unhallowed,
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- unmentionable,
- unprintable,
- unregenerate,
- unsacred,
- unsanctified,
- unspiritual,
- venomous,
- vile,
- violate,
- vitiate,
- vituperative,
- vulgar,
- wicked,
- worldly
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