Related Words:
- passive resistance
collapse - peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing to cooperate related words >
- Quakerism,
- a wise passiveness,
- acquiescence,
- amenability,
- challenge,
- civil disobedience,
- combative reaction,
- complaint,
- compliance,
- contemplation,
- contemplative life,
- counteraction,
- defiance,
- demur,
- disobedience,
- dispute,
- dissent,
- dissentience,
- do-nothing policy,
- do-nothingism,
- do-nothingness,
- dormancy,
- fractiousness,
- frowardness,
- humbleness,
- humility,
- idleness,
- immobility,
- inaction,
- inactivity,
- indiscipline,
- indocility,
- indolence,
- inertia,
- inertness,
- infraction,
- infringement,
- insubordination,
- intractability,
- laissez-aller,
- laissez-faire,
- laissez-faireism,
- lawbreaking,
- lawlessness,
- meditation,
- meekness,
- naughtiness,
- negativism,
- neutralism,
- neutrality,
- neutralness,
- noncompliance,
- nonconformity,
- noncooperation,
- noninvolvement,
- nonobedience,
- nonparticipation,
- nonresistance,
- nonviolence,
- nonviolent resistance,
- obedience,
- objection,
- obstinacy,
- opposition,
- pacifism,
- paralysis,
- passive self-annihilation,
- passiveness,
- passivism,
- passivity,
- policy,
- procrastination,
- protest,
- quiescence,
- quietism,
- reaction,
- rebuff,
- recalcitrance,
- recalcitrancy,
- recalcitration,
- recusancy,
- refractoriness,
- reluctance,
- remonstrance,
- renitence,
- renitency,
- repellence,
- repellency,
- repulse,
- repulsion,
- resignation,
- resistance,
- revolt,
- stagnancy,
- stagnation,
- stand,
- standpattism,
- stasis,
- submission,
- submissiveness,
- transgression,
- uncomplainingness,
- uncooperativeness,
- unduteousness,
- undutifulness,
- unsubmissiveness,
- vegetation,
- violation,
- vita contemplativa,
- waiting game,
- watching and waiting,
- waywardness,
- willful disobedience,
- withstanding
- boycott
collapse
- a group's refusal to have commercial dealings with some organization in protest against its policies
- refuse to sponsor; refuse to do business with related words >
- avoid,
- ban,
- banish,
- banishment,
- bar,
- barring,
- beef,
- bitch,
- blackball,
- blacklist,
- blockade,
- boggle,
- boycottage,
- call in question,
- challenge,
- circumscription,
- complain,
- complaint,
- compunction,
- cry out against,
- debarment,
- debarring,
- demarcation,
- demonstrate,
- demonstrate against,
- demonstration,
- demur,
- demurrer,
- disfellowship,
- dispute,
- embargo,
- enter a protest,
- eschew,
- exception,
- exclusion,
- expostulate,
- expostulation,
- go on strike,
- go out,
- grievance,
- grievance committee,
- hold out,
- holler,
- howl,
- inadmissibility,
- indignation meeting,
- injunction,
- job action,
- kick,
- lock out,
- lockout,
- march,
- narrowing,
- nonadmission,
- nonviolent protest,
- object,
- objection,
- omission,
- ostracism,
- ostracization,
- ostracize,
- outlaw,
- outlaw strike,
- pass by,
- pass over,
- picket,
- picketing,
- preclusion,
- press objections,
- prohibition,
- proscribe,
- proscription,
- protest,
- protest demonstration,
- protestation,
- qualm,
- raise a howl,
- rally,
- refuse,
- reject,
- rejection,
- relegation,
- remonstrance,
- remonstrate,
- remonstration,
- repudiation,
- restriction,
- revolt,
- rulebook slowdown,
- scruple,
- shun,
- shut it down,
- sick-in,
- sit down,
- sit in,
- sit-down,
- sit-down strike,
- sit-in,
- slow down,
- slowdown,
- squawk,
- state a grievance,
- strike,
- sympathy strike,
- taboo,
- teach in,
- teach-in,
- tie-up,
- turnout,
- walk out,
- walkout,
- wildcat strike,
- work stoppage,
- yell bloody murder
- modesty
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- formality and propriety of manner
- freedom from vanity or conceit related words >
- aloofness,
- altruism,
- backwardness,
- bashfulness,
- blankness,
- boggle,
- boggling,
- chilliness,
- coldness,
- commitment,
- compunction,
- consecration,
- constraint,
- coolness,
- decency,
- decorousness,
- decorum,
- dedication,
- delicacy,
- demur,
- demurral,
- detachment,
- devotion,
- diffidence,
- discreetness,
- discretion,
- disinterest,
- disinterestedness,
- distance,
- dullness,
- elegance,
- expressionlessness,
- fairishness,
- falter,
- faltering,
- frigidity,
- frostiness,
- guardedness,
- hesitance,
- hesitancy,
- hesitation,
- homeliness,
- humbleness,
- humility,
- iciness,
- impassiveness,
- impassivity,
- impersonality,
- inaccessibility,
- indifference,
- ingloriousness,
- innocuousness,
- introversion,
- lackluster,
- lowlihood,
- lowliness,
- meanness,
- mediocreness,
- mediocrity,
- meekness,
- middlingness,
- moderateness,
- modestness,
- objection,
- passableness,
- pause,
- plainness,
- poorness,
- propriety,
- protest,
- pudency,
- pudicity,
- qualm,
- qualm of conscience,
- qualmishness,
- recoil,
- remoteness,
- repression,
- reserve,
- reservedness,
- respectability,
- restraint,
- reticence,
- reticency,
- retirement,
- sacrifice,
- scruple,
- scrupulosity,
- scrupulousness,
- seemliness,
- self-abasement,
- self-abnegation,
- self-denial,
- self-devotion,
- self-effacement,
- self-forgetfulness,
- self-immolation,
- self-neglect,
- self-neglectfulness,
- self-renouncement,
- self-sacrifice,
- self-subjection,
- selflessness,
- shame,
- shrinking,
- shyness,
- simpleness,
- smallness,
- standoffishness,
- stickling,
- subduedness,
- submissiveness,
- suppression,
- teachableness,
- tediousness,
- tolerableness,
- unacquisitiveness,
- unaffability,
- unapproachability,
- uncongeniality,
- undemonstrativeness,
- unexpansiveness,
- unimportance,
- unpossessiveness,
- unpretentiousness,
- unselfishness,
- withdrawal,
- withdrawnness
- sit in
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- participate in an act of civil disobedience
- attend as a visitor; "Can I sit in on your Intermediate Hittite class?" related words >
- assemblee,
- assembly,
- assignation,
- at home,
- ball,
- be enfranchised,
- be implicated in,
- bear a hand,
- beef,
- bitch,
- boggle,
- boycott,
- brawl,
- call in question,
- caucus,
- challenge,
- chip in,
- colloquium,
- commission,
- committee,
- complain,
- complaint,
- compunction,
- conclave,
- concourse,
- congregation,
- congress,
- contribute,
- conventicle,
- convention,
- convocation,
- council,
- cry out against,
- dance,
- date,
- demonstrate,
- demonstrate against,
- demonstration,
- demur,
- demurrer,
- diet,
- dispute,
- eisteddfod,
- enter a protest,
- enter into,
- exception,
- expostulate,
- expostulation,
- festivity,
- fete,
- forgathering,
- forum,
- gathering,
- get-together,
- go into,
- grievance,
- grievance committee,
- have suffrage,
- help decide,
- holler,
- housewarming,
- howl,
- indignation meeting,
- join,
- join in,
- kick,
- levee,
- make the scene,
- march,
- meet,
- meeting,
- nonviolent protest,
- object,
- objection,
- panel,
- partake,
- partake of,
- participate,
- participate in,
- party,
- picket,
- picketing,
- plenum,
- press objections,
- prom,
- protest,
- protest demonstration,
- protestation,
- pull an oar,
- qualm,
- quorum,
- raise a howl,
- rally,
- reception,
- remonstrance,
- remonstrate,
- remonstration,
- rendezvous,
- scruple,
- seance,
- session,
- shindig,
- sit in on,
- sitting,
- soiree,
- squawk,
- state a grievance,
- strike,
- symposium,
- synod,
- take part in,
- teach in,
- teach-in,
- turnout,
- vote,
- yell bloody murder
- hold off
collapse
- resist and fight to a standoff; "Dallas had enough of a lead to hold the Broncos off" related words >
- abstain,
- adjourn,
- be dilatory,
- beat back,
- beat off,
- blench,
- block,
- boggle,
- brush off,
- chase,
- chase away,
- chase off,
- check,
- continue,
- counter,
- cut,
- defer,
- delay,
- demur,
- dismiss,
- dispense with,
- do without,
- drag out,
- drive away,
- drive back,
- extend,
- falter,
- fend,
- fend off,
- fight shy of,
- filibuster,
- flinch,
- forbear,
- forgo,
- gain time,
- hang,
- hang back,
- hang fire,
- hang off,
- hang up,
- have qualms,
- hesitate,
- hinder,
- hold at bay,
- hold back,
- hold over,
- hold up,
- keep at bay,
- keep back,
- keep in hand,
- keep off,
- lay aside,
- lay by,
- lay over,
- let alone,
- make bones about,
- make time,
- not touch,
- not use,
- obstruct,
- pack off,
- parry,
- pause,
- pigeonhole,
- play for time,
- postpone,
- procrastinate,
- prolong,
- prorogate,
- prorogue,
- protract,
- pull back,
- push aside,
- push back,
- put,
- put aside,
- put back,
- put off,
- put on ice,
- quail,
- rebuff,
- rebut,
- recess,
- recoil,
- refrain,
- refuse,
- repel,
- repulse,
- reserve,
- save,
- scruple,
- send away,
- send off,
- send packing,
- set aside,
- set by,
- shelve,
- shift off,
- shrink,
- shy,
- shy at,
- sleep on,
- snub,
- spare,
- spurn,
- stall,
- stall for time,
- stall off,
- stand over,
- stave off,
- stay,
- stick at,
- stickle,
- stooge around,
- stop,
- strain,
- stretch out,
- suspend,
- table,
- take a recess,
- talk against time,
- temporize,
- thrust back,
- turn aside,
- turn back,
- waive,
- ward off,
- waver,
- wince
- cavil
collapse
- raise trivial objections related words >
- adverse criticism,
- animadversion,
- argue,
- argufy,
- around the bush,
- aspersion,
- bad notices,
- bad press,
- bandy words,
- beat about,
- beg the question,
- bicker,
- boggle,
- captiousness,
- carp,
- carping,
- catch at straws,
- caviling,
- censoriousness,
- censure,
- chicane,
- choplogic,
- complain,
- complaint,
- contend,
- contest,
- criticism,
- criticize,
- cross swords,
- cut and thrust,
- cut up,
- demur,
- discept,
- dispute,
- dodge,
- equivocate,
- evade,
- evade the issue,
- exception,
- fault-find,
- faultfinding,
- fence,
- find fault,
- flak,
- give and take,
- hairsplitting,
- hassle,
- have it out,
- hedge,
- hit,
- home thrust,
- hostile criticism,
- hypercriticalness,
- hypercriticism,
- imputation,
- jesuitism,
- join issue,
- knock,
- lock horns,
- logomachize,
- moot,
- mystify,
- nagging,
- niggle,
- niggling,
- nit,
- nit-picking,
- nitpick,
- object,
- obloquy,
- obscure,
- overcriticalness,
- palter,
- parry,
- pestering,
- pettifog,
- pettifogging,
- pick holes,
- pick nits,
- pick to pieces,
- plead,
- polemicize,
- polemize,
- prevaricate,
- priggishness,
- pull apart,
- pull to pieces,
- pussyfoot,
- quibble,
- quibbling,
- quiddity,
- quillet,
- quip,
- quirk,
- quodlibet,
- rap,
- reflection,
- reproachfulness,
- shift,
- shuffle,
- shy,
- sidestep,
- slam,
- spar,
- split hairs,
- stricture,
- swipe,
- take exception,
- take sides,
- taking exception,
- tear apart,
- tear to pieces,
- tergiversate,
- thrash out,
- trichoschistism,
- try conclusions,
- wrangle
- abnegation,
- alienation,
- arrest,
- arrestation,
- arrestment,
- autism,
- autistic thinking,
- avoidance mechanism,
- blame-shifting,
- blockage,
- blocking,
- challenge,
- check,
- clogging,
- closing up,
- closure,
- combative reaction,
- compensation,
- complaint,
- constriction,
- counteraction,
- cramp,
- cynicism,
- decompensation,
- defeatism,
- defense mechanism,
- defiance,
- delay,
- demur,
- dereism,
- dereistic thinking,
- detainment,
- detention,
- dismalness,
- displacement,
- dispute,
- dissent,
- dissentience,
- dissociation,
- emotional insulation,
- escape,
- escape into fantasy,
- escape mechanism,
- escapism,
- fantasizing,
- fantasy,
- fixation,
- flight,
- foot-dragging,
- fractiousness,
- gloominess,
- gloomy outlook,
- hampering,
- hindering,
- hindrance,
- holdback,
- holdup,
- impediment,
- inhibition,
- interference,
- interruption,
- isolation,
- let,
- malism,
- nay,
- naysaying,
- negation,
- negative,
- negative attitude,
- negativeness,
- negativity,
- nihilism,
- nix,
- no,
- noncooperation,
- nuisance value,
- objection,
- obstinacy,
- obstruction,
- obstructionism,
- occlusion,
- opposition,
- overcompensation,
- passive resistance,
- pessimism,
- projection,
- protest,
- psychotaxis,
- rationalization,
- reaction,
- rebuff,
- recalcitrance,
- recalcitrancy,
- recalcitration,
- refractoriness,
- reluctance,
- remonstrance,
- renitence,
- renitency,
- repellence,
- repellency,
- repression,
- repulse,
- repulsion,
- resistance,
- restraint,
- restriction,
- retardation,
- retardment,
- retreatism,
- revolt,
- setback,
- sociological adjustive reactions,
- squeeze,
- stand,
- stranglehold,
- stricture,
- sublimation,
- substitution,
- suppression,
- uncheerfulness,
- uncooperativeness,
- wish-fulfillment fantasy,
- wishful thinking,
- withdrawal,
- withstanding
- antagonism,
- antipathy,
- averseness,
- aversion,
- backlash,
- backwardness,
- bad blood,
- challenge,
- clashing,
- collision,
- combative reaction,
- competition,
- complaint,
- conflict,
- confutation,
- contempt,
- contradiction,
- contraposition,
- contrariety,
- contrariness,
- contumaciousness,
- contumacy,
- counteraction,
- counterposition,
- counterworking,
- crankiness,
- cross-purposes,
- crotchetiness,
- cursoriness,
- defiance,
- defiance of authority,
- demur,
- despite,
- deviation,
- disaccord,
- disaccordance,
- disagreement,
- disconformity,
- disinclination,
- disobedience,
- dispute,
- disrelish,
- dissension,
- dissent,
- dissentience,
- distaste,
- enmity,
- foot-dragging,
- fractiousness,
- friction,
- grudging consent,
- grudgingness,
- hostility,
- inaccordance,
- incongruity,
- inconsistency,
- incorrigibility,
- indisposedness,
- indisposition,
- indocility,
- indomitability,
- inimicalness,
- insuppressibility,
- interference,
- intractability,
- intractableness,
- irrepressibility,
- kick,
- lack of enthusiasm,
- lack of zeal,
- mutinousness,
- negativeness,
- negativism,
- nolition,
- noncompliance,
- nonconcurrence,
- nonconformance,
- nonconformism,
- nonconformity,
- noncooperation,
- nonobservance,
- objection,
- obstinacy,
- obstreperousness,
- opposition,
- opposure,
- oppugnance,
- oppugnancy,
- originality,
- orneriness,
- passive resistance,
- perfunctoriness,
- perverseness,
- protest,
- reaction,
- rebuff,
- recalcitrancy,
- recalcitration,
- recoil,
- recusance,
- recusancy,
- refractoriness,
- refusal,
- reluctance,
- remonstrance,
- renitence,
- renitency,
- repellence,
- repellency,
- repercussion,
- repugnance,
- repulse,
- repulsion,
- resistance,
- restiveness,
- revolt,
- rivalry,
- shrewishness,
- slowness,
- stand,
- stubbornness,
- sulk,
- sulkiness,
- sulks,
- sullenness,
- swimming upstream,
- unconformity,
- uncontrollability,
- uncooperativeness,
- unenthusiasm,
- ungovernability,
- unmalleability,
- unmanageability,
- unmoldableness,
- unruliness,
- unsubmissiveness,
- untamableness,
- unwillingness,
- vying,
- wildness,
- withstanding
- complain
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- make a formal accusation; bring a formal charge; "The plaintiff's lawyer complained that he defendant had physically abused his client"
- express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness; "My mother complains all day"; "She has a lot to kick about" related words >
- accuse,
- ail,
- air a grievance,
- allege,
- arraign,
- article,
- be affected with,
- beef,
- bellyache,
- bemoan,
- bitch,
- boggle,
- book,
- boycott,
- bring accusation,
- bring charges,
- bring to book,
- call in question,
- carp at,
- challenge,
- charge,
- cite,
- clamor,
- complain loudly,
- complain of,
- confront,
- contend with,
- crab,
- croak,
- cry,
- cry out against,
- demonstrate,
- demonstrate against,
- demur,
- denounce,
- denunciate,
- dispute,
- dissent,
- enter a protest,
- expostulate,
- face down,
- face out,
- face up to,
- fasten on,
- fasten upon,
- feel ill,
- find fault,
- finger,
- fret,
- fret and fume,
- front,
- fuss,
- gripe,
- groan,
- grouch,
- grouse,
- growl,
- grumble,
- grunt,
- hang something on,
- holler,
- howl,
- impeach,
- imply,
- impute,
- indict,
- inform against,
- inform on,
- insinuate,
- kick,
- kick against,
- labor under,
- lament,
- lay charges,
- lodge a complaint,
- lodge a plaint,
- make a stand,
- march,
- meet head-on,
- moan,
- murmur,
- mutter,
- nag,
- object,
- offer resistance,
- oppose,
- pester,
- picket,
- pin on,
- prefer charges,
- press charges,
- press objections,
- protest,
- put on report,
- raise a howl,
- rally,
- recalcitrate,
- register a complaint,
- reluct,
- remonstrate,
- repine,
- report,
- reproach,
- revolt,
- scruple,
- show fight,
- sing the blues,
- sit in,
- squawk,
- stand,
- stand at bay,
- stand up against,
- stand up to,
- state a grievance,
- strike,
- strive against,
- suffer,
- take on,
- take to task,
- task,
- taunt with,
- tax,
- teach in,
- twit,
- wail,
- whimper,
- whine,
- withstand,
- worry,
- yap,
- yell bloody murder,
- yelp
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