Related Words:
- insidious
collapse - working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way; "glaucoma is an insidious disease"; "a subtle poison"
- intended to entrap
- beguiling but harmful; "insidious pleasures" related words >
- Byzantine,
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- acute,
- amoral,
- arch,
- artful,
- astute,
- cagey,
- calculating,
- canny,
- chiseling,
- clever,
- collusive,
- conscienceless,
- corrupt,
- corrupted,
- covinous,
- crafty,
- criminal,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- cute,
- dangerous,
- dark,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- designing,
- devious,
- diplomatic,
- dishonest,
- dishonorable,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- evasive,
- false,
- falsehearted,
- feline,
- felonious,
- finagling,
- fishy,
- foxy,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- gradual,
- guileful,
- ill-got,
- ill-gotten,
- immoral,
- indirect,
- ingenious,
- inventive,
- knowing,
- not kosher,
- pawky,
- perfidious,
- perilous,
- politic,
- questionable,
- ready,
- resourceful,
- rotten,
- scheming,
- serpentine,
- shady,
- shameless,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- sinister,
- slick,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneaky,
- sophistical,
- stealthy,
- strategic,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- supple,
- surreptitious,
- suspicious,
- tactical,
- treacherous,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- two-faced,
- unconscienced,
- unconscientious,
- unconscionable,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unethical,
- unprincipled,
- unsavory,
- unscrupulous,
- unstraightforward,
- vulpine,
- wary,
- wily,
- without remorse,
- without shame
- providence
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- the guardianship and control exercised by a deity; "divine providence"
- the prudence and care exercised by someone in the management of resources
- the capital and largest city of Rhode Island; located in northeastern Rhode Island on Narragansett Bay; site of Brown University
- a manifestation of God's foresightful care for his creatures related words >
- acuity,
- acumen,
- acuteness,
- anticipation,
- apperception,
- astuteness,
- austerity,
- austerity program,
- beneficence,
- canniness,
- care,
- carefulness,
- caution,
- chariness,
- circumspection,
- circumspectness,
- cogency,
- concern,
- conservation,
- consideration,
- contemplation,
- control,
- cool judgment,
- creation,
- destiny,
- direction,
- discernment,
- discreetness,
- discretion,
- discrimination,
- dispensation,
- economic planning,
- economicalness,
- economy,
- economy of means,
- envisagement,
- envisionment,
- false economy,
- farseeingness,
- farsightedness,
- fate,
- forearming,
- forecast,
- foreglance,
- foregleam,
- foreglimpse,
- forehandedness,
- foreseeing,
- foresight,
- foresightedness,
- forethought,
- forethoughtfulness,
- fortune,
- frugality,
- frugalness,
- good judgment,
- good management,
- guidance,
- husbandry,
- incisiveness,
- insight,
- insurance,
- judgment,
- judiciousness,
- karma,
- kismet,
- longheadedness,
- longsightedness,
- looking ahead,
- lot,
- management,
- measures,
- parsimoniousness,
- parsimony,
- penetration,
- perception,
- perceptiveness,
- percipience,
- perspicaciousness,
- perspicacity,
- perspicuity,
- perspicuousness,
- policy,
- polity,
- precaution,
- precautions,
- precautiousness,
- prediction,
- preparation,
- prepublication,
- preservation,
- preventive measure,
- preview,
- prevision,
- prospect,
- prospection,
- protection,
- provision,
- prudence,
- prudential administration,
- prudentialism,
- readiness,
- reflection,
- reflectiveness,
- safeguard,
- sagaciousness,
- sagacity,
- sensibility,
- sound judgment,
- soundness of judgment,
- sparingness,
- steps,
- steps and measures,
- thoughtfulness,
- thrift,
- thriftiness,
- tight purse strings,
- trenchancy,
- unwastefulness,
- visitations of providence,
- weighing
- disgraceful
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- giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation; "scandalous behavior"; "the wicked rascally shameful conduct of the bankrupt"- Thackeray; "the most shocking book of its time" related words >
- aberrant,
- abnormal,
- abominable,
- arrant,
- atrocious,
- bad,
- base,
- beneath one,
- black,
- blamable,
- blameworthy,
- cheap,
- contemptible,
- corrupt,
- criminal,
- damnable,
- dark,
- debased,
- debasing,
- degraded,
- degrading,
- delinquent,
- demeaning,
- deplorable,
- despicable,
- deviant,
- discreditable,
- dishonorable,
- disreputable,
- embarrassing,
- evil,
- execrable,
- flagitious,
- flagrant,
- foul,
- gutter,
- hardly the thing,
- heinous,
- humiliating,
- humiliative,
- ignominious,
- illegal,
- improper,
- inappropriate,
- incorrect,
- indecent,
- indecorous,
- infamous,
- infra dig,
- infra indignitatem,
- inglorious,
- iniquitous,
- knavish,
- lascivious,
- lewd,
- low,
- mean,
- monstrous,
- naughty,
- nefarious,
- not done,
- not the thing,
- notorious,
- objectionable,
- off-base,
- off-color,
- opprobrious,
- out-of-line,
- outrageous,
- peccant,
- pitiful,
- rank,
- reprehensible,
- reprobate,
- rude,
- sacrilegious,
- sad,
- scandalous,
- shabby,
- shady,
- shameful,
- shameless,
- shocking,
- shoddy,
- sinful,
- sorry,
- terrible,
- too bad,
- unbecoming,
- undue,
- unfit,
- unfitting,
- unforgivable,
- unlawful,
- unpardonable,
- unrespectable,
- unrighteous,
- unseemly,
- unspeakable,
- unsuitable,
- unworthy,
- unworthy of one,
- vicious,
- vile,
- villainous,
- wicked,
- wrong,
- wrongful
- reign
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- royal authority; the dominion of a monarch
- the period during which a monarch is sovereign; "during the reign of Henry VIII"
- a period during which something or somebody is dominant or powerful; "he was helpless under the reign of his egotism"
- have sovereign power; "Henry VIII reigned for a long time" related words >
- administration,
- ascendancy,
- authority,
- averageness,
- be in,
- be in force,
- be the rage,
- be the rule,
- be the thing,
- bear reign,
- call the shots,
- charisma,
- charm,
- civil government,
- claws,
- clout,
- clutches,
- command,
- commonality,
- commonness,
- consequence,
- control,
- credit,
- currency,
- direct,
- direction,
- discipline,
- dispensation,
- disposition,
- dominance,
- dominate,
- domination,
- domineer,
- dominion,
- effect,
- eminence,
- empery,
- empire,
- enchantment,
- esteem,
- extensiveness,
- favor,
- force,
- form of government,
- good feeling,
- govern,
- governance,
- government,
- grip,
- habitualness,
- hand,
- hands,
- hegemony,
- hold,
- importance,
- incidental power,
- influence,
- influentiality,
- insinuation,
- iron hand,
- jurisdiction,
- kingdom,
- lead,
- leadership,
- leverage,
- magnetism,
- manage,
- management,
- mastery,
- moment,
- monarchy,
- normality,
- obtain,
- ordinariness,
- overrule,
- oversight,
- personality,
- persuasion,
- political organization,
- polity,
- potency,
- power,
- predominance,
- predominate,
- preponderance,
- preponderate,
- pressure,
- prestige,
- prevail,
- prevalence,
- purchase,
- raj,
- rampantness,
- regime,
- regimen,
- regnancy,
- regulation,
- repute,
- rifeness,
- routineness,
- rule,
- rule over,
- rule the roost,
- run,
- say,
- sovereignty,
- standardness,
- suasion,
- subtle influence,
- suggestion,
- supervise,
- supervision,
- supremacy,
- suzerainty,
- sway,
- sweepingness,
- system of government,
- talons,
- upper hand,
- usualness,
- wear the crown,
- weight,
- whip hand,
- widespreadness,
- wield the scepter
- awry
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- away from the correct or expected course; "something has gone awry in our plans"; "something went badly amiss in the preparations" related words >
- aberrant,
- abroad,
- adrift,
- afield,
- agee,
- agee-jawed,
- all abroad,
- all off,
- all wrong,
- amiss,
- aside,
- askance,
- askant,
- askew,
- askewgee,
- aslant,
- asquint,
- astray,
- at fault,
- badly,
- beside the mark,
- cam,
- catawampous,
- catawamptious,
- cock-a-hoop,
- cockeyed,
- convulsed,
- corrupt,
- crooked,
- crookedly,
- deceptive,
- defective,
- delusive,
- deranged,
- deviant,
- deviational,
- deviative,
- disarranged,
- discomfited,
- discomposed,
- disconcerted,
- dislocated,
- disordered,
- disorderly,
- disorganized,
- distorted,
- disturbed,
- errant,
- erring,
- erroneous,
- erroneously,
- fallacious,
- false,
- faultful,
- faultily,
- faulty,
- flawed,
- haywire,
- heretical,
- heterodox,
- illogical,
- illusory,
- in disorder,
- misplaced,
- not right,
- not true,
- obliquely,
- off,
- off the track,
- on the fritz,
- out,
- out of gear,
- out of joint,
- out of kelter,
- out of kilter,
- out of order,
- out of place,
- out of tune,
- out of whack,
- peccant,
- perturbed,
- perverse,
- perverted,
- roily,
- self-contradictory,
- shuffled,
- skew,
- skew-jawed,
- skewed,
- slantways,
- slaunchways,
- squinting,
- straying,
- turbid,
- turbulent,
- unfactual,
- unfavorably,
- unorthodox,
- unproved,
- unsettled,
- untrue,
- untruly,
- upset,
- wamper-jawed,
- wide,
- wrong,
- wry,
- yaw-ways
- Establishment
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- a public or private structure (business or governmental or educational) including buildings and equipment for business or residence
- the cognitive process of establishing a valid proof
- any large organization
- (ecology) the process by which a plant or animal becomes established in a new habitat related words >
- John Bull,
- Rasputin,
- Svengali,
- Uncle Sam,
- VIP,
- Washington,
- Whitehall,
- access,
- bad influence,
- baron,
- big gun,
- big man,
- big name,
- big wheel,
- bigwig,
- brass,
- brass hat,
- bureaucracy,
- celebrity,
- court,
- dignitary,
- dignity,
- directorate,
- elder,
- eminence grise,
- father,
- figure,
- five-percenter,
- friend at court,
- good influence,
- gray eminence,
- great man,
- heavyweight,
- hidden hand,
- hierarchy,
- higher echelons,
- higher-ups,
- important person,
- influence,
- influence peddler,
- influencer,
- ingroup,
- interests,
- key,
- kingmaker,
- lion,
- lobby,
- lobbyist,
- lords of creation,
- magnate,
- man of influence,
- man of mark,
- management,
- manipulator,
- ministry,
- mogul,
- nabob,
- name,
- notability,
- notable,
- officialdom,
- open sesame,
- panjandrum,
- person of renown,
- personage,
- personality,
- pillar of society,
- power,
- power elite,
- powers that be,
- prelacy,
- pressure group,
- ruling circle,
- ruling class,
- ruling classes,
- sachem,
- sinister influence,
- somebody,
- something,
- special interests,
- special-interest group,
- the Crown,
- the Establishment,
- the administration,
- the authorities,
- the government,
- the great,
- the ingroup,
- the interests,
- the people upstairs,
- the power elite,
- the power structure,
- the top,
- them,
- they,
- top brass,
- top people,
- tycoon,
- very important person,
- wheeler-dealer,
- wire-puller,
- worthy
- infect
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- contaminate with a disease or microorganism
- communicate a disease to; "Your children have infected you with this head cold"
- affect in a contagious way; "His laughter infects everyone who is in the same room"
- contaminate with ideas or an ideology; "society was infected by racism" related words >
- abuse,
- activate,
- adulterate,
- afflict,
- aggrieve,
- alloy,
- animate,
- befoul,
- benasty,
- bewitch,
- blight,
- canker,
- charge,
- cheapen,
- coarsen,
- condemn,
- confound,
- contaminate,
- corrupt,
- crucify,
- curse,
- damage,
- debase,
- debauch,
- defile,
- deflower,
- degenerate,
- degrade,
- denature,
- deprave,
- desecrate,
- despoil,
- destroy,
- devalue,
- disadvantage,
- disease,
- disserve,
- distort,
- distress,
- do a mischief,
- do evil,
- do ill,
- do wrong,
- do wrong by,
- doom,
- embue,
- enliven,
- envenom,
- exhilarate,
- fire,
- foul,
- get into trouble,
- harass,
- harm,
- hex,
- hurt,
- imbue,
- impair,
- inform,
- infuse,
- inject,
- injure,
- inoculate,
- inspire,
- inspirit,
- irradiate,
- jinx,
- maltreat,
- menace,
- mess,
- mess up,
- mistreat,
- misuse,
- molest,
- nasty,
- outrage,
- persecute,
- pervert,
- play havoc with,
- play hob with,
- poison,
- pollute,
- prejudice,
- prostitute,
- radiumize,
- ravage,
- ravish,
- savage,
- scathe,
- spirit,
- spirit up,
- sully,
- taint,
- tarnish,
- threaten,
- torment,
- torture,
- twist,
- ulcerate,
- violate,
- vitiate,
- vulgarize,
- warp,
- wound,
- wreak havoc on,
- wrong
- dispensation
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- the act of dispensing (giving out in portions)
- an exemption from some rule or obligation
- a share that has been dispensed or distributed related words >
- OK,
- abandonment,
- abjuration,
- administration,
- admission,
- allowance,
- attenuation,
- blank check,
- broadcast,
- broadcasting,
- carte blanche,
- cession,
- charter,
- circumfusion,
- civil government,
- command function,
- consent,
- copyright,
- courtesy,
- creation,
- decision-making,
- diffraction,
- diffusion,
- dilution,
- direction,
- disbursal,
- disbursement,
- discipline,
- dispersal,
- dispersion,
- disposal,
- disposition,
- dissemination,
- dissipation,
- distribution,
- divergence,
- dole,
- doling,
- doling out,
- dumping,
- empery,
- empire,
- evaporation,
- executive function,
- expansion,
- favor,
- forgoing,
- form of government,
- forswearing,
- fragmentation,
- franchise,
- freedom,
- getting rid of,
- giving out,
- giving up,
- governance,
- government,
- grant,
- immunity,
- indulgence,
- issuance,
- kindness,
- leave,
- letting go,
- liberty,
- license,
- management,
- officiation,
- okay,
- oversight,
- passing around,
- patent,
- paying out,
- peppering,
- permission,
- permission to enter,
- political organization,
- polity,
- preservation,
- privilege,
- propagation,
- providence,
- publication,
- radiation,
- recantation,
- regime,
- regimen,
- regnancy,
- regulation,
- reign,
- release,
- relinquishment,
- renunciation,
- resignation,
- retraction,
- riddance,
- rule,
- sacrifice,
- scattering,
- scatterment,
- service,
- shotgun pattern,
- sovereignty,
- sowing,
- spattering,
- special favor,
- special permission,
- splay,
- spread,
- spreading,
- sprinkling,
- strewing,
- supervision,
- surrender,
- sway,
- swearing off,
- system of government,
- ticket,
- ticket of admission,
- visitations of providence,
- volatilization,
- vouchsafement,
- waiver,
- warrant,
- yielding
- impair
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- make worse or less effective; "His vision was impaired" related words >
- abate,
- abrade,
- abstract,
- abuse,
- afflict,
- aggravate,
- aggrieve,
- bate,
- befoul,
- bewitch,
- blemish,
- blight,
- condemn,
- corrupt,
- cripple,
- crucify,
- curse,
- curtail,
- damage,
- decrease,
- deduct,
- defile,
- deprave,
- depreciate,
- derogate,
- despoil,
- destroy,
- deteriorate,
- detract,
- dilapidate,
- diminish,
- disadvantage,
- disparage,
- disserve,
- distress,
- do a mischief,
- do evil,
- do ill,
- do wrong,
- do wrong by,
- doom,
- drain,
- eat away,
- embitter,
- endamage,
- envenom,
- erode,
- exacerbate,
- extract,
- file away,
- get into trouble,
- harass,
- harm,
- hex,
- hurt,
- infect,
- injure,
- irritate,
- jinx,
- leach,
- lessen,
- make worse,
- maltreat,
- mar,
- menace,
- mistreat,
- molest,
- outrage,
- persecute,
- play havoc with,
- play hob with,
- poison,
- pollute,
- prejudice,
- purify,
- put back,
- reduce,
- refine,
- remove,
- retrench,
- rub away,
- ruin,
- sap,
- savage,
- scathe,
- shorten,
- spoil,
- subduct,
- subtract,
- taint,
- take away,
- take from,
- tarnish,
- thin,
- thin out,
- threaten,
- torment,
- torture,
- undermine,
- violate,
- vitiate,
- weaken,
- wear away,
- weed,
- withdraw,
- worsen,
- wound,
- wreak havoc on,
- wrong
- debased
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- lowered in value; "the dollar is low"; "a debased currency" related words >
- abandoned,
- abject,
- abominable,
- arrant,
- atrocious,
- base,
- beggarly,
- cheesy,
- contaminated,
- contemptible,
- corrupt,
- corrupted,
- couchant,
- crouched,
- crummy,
- debauched,
- decadent,
- degenerate,
- degraded,
- depraved,
- depressed,
- despicable,
- deteriorated,
- dirty,
- disgusting,
- dissolute,
- downcast,
- downthrown,
- execrable,
- fallen,
- flagrant,
- flat,
- foul,
- fulsome,
- grave,
- gross,
- heinous,
- knee-high,
- knocked flat,
- laid low,
- little,
- low,
- low-built,
- low-down,
- low-hung,
- low-level,
- low-leveled,
- low-lying,
- low-set,
- low-statured,
- lowered,
- lumpen,
- mangy,
- mean,
- measly,
- miserable,
- monstrous,
- morally polluted,
- neap,
- nefarious,
- obnoxious,
- odious,
- paltry,
- perverted,
- petty,
- poky,
- polluted,
- poor,
- profligate,
- prone,
- prostrate,
- rank,
- recumbent,
- reduced,
- reprobate,
- reptilian,
- rotten,
- runty,
- scabby,
- scrubby,
- scruffy,
- scummy,
- scurvy,
- shabby,
- shoddy,
- short,
- small,
- squalid,
- squat,
- squatty,
- steeped in iniquity,
- stooped,
- stumpy,
- submerged,
- sunk,
- sunken,
- supine,
- tainted,
- unelevated,
- unmentionable,
- vice-corrupted,
- vile,
- vitiate,
- vitiated,
- warped,
- wretched
- age,
- antiquate,
- be annihilated,
- be consumed,
- be destroyed,
- be done for,
- be gone,
- be killed,
- be lost,
- be no more,
- be wiped out,
- become extinct,
- become obsolete,
- break down,
- cease,
- cease to be,
- cease to exist,
- cease to live,
- collapse,
- come to naught,
- come to nothing,
- conk out,
- corrupt,
- croak,
- crumble,
- date,
- decay,
- decease,
- decline,
- decompose,
- dematerialize,
- demise,
- depart,
- depart this life,
- die,
- die away,
- die out,
- disappear,
- disintegrate,
- dispel,
- disperse,
- dissipate,
- dissolve,
- do a fade-out,
- dwindle,
- end,
- erode,
- evanesce,
- evaporate,
- exit,
- expire,
- fade,
- fade away,
- fade out,
- fall,
- fall asleep,
- flee,
- fly,
- fossilize,
- fust,
- go,
- go away,
- go out,
- go under,
- grow old,
- hide,
- leave no trace,
- leave the scene,
- lose currency,
- melt,
- melt away,
- molder,
- obsolesce,
- outdate,
- part,
- pass,
- pass away,
- pass on,
- pass out,
- pass over,
- peg out,
- peter out,
- put off mortality,
- putrefy,
- quit this world,
- retire from sight,
- return to dust,
- rot,
- run out,
- rust,
- sink,
- sink away,
- spoil,
- stop breathing,
- succumb,
- suffer an eclipse,
- superannuate,
- turn,
- up and die,
- vanish,
- vanish from sight,
- waste,
- waste away,
- wear away,
- yield the ghost
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