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wig
collapse
hairpiece covering the head and made of real or synthetic hair
British slang for a scolding
related words >
admonishment
,
admonition
,
bawl out
,
berate
,
chew out
,
chiding
,
hairpiece
,
jaw
,
periwig
,
peruke
,
rail
,
rap
,
rate
,
reprimand
,
reproach
,
reproof
,
revile
,
tongue-lash
,
toupee
,
upbraid
yell at
collapse
related words >
abuse
,
bark at
,
berate
,
betongue
,
blacken
,
execrate
,
fulminate against
,
jaw
,
load with reproaches
,
rag
,
rail at
,
rate
,
rave against
,
revile
,
thunder against
,
tongue-lash
,
vilify
,
vituperate
,
yelp at
tell off
collapse
reprimand; "She told the misbehaving student off"
related words >
bawl out
,
berate
,
call down
,
chew out
,
come down on
,
denounce
,
dress down
,
give it to
,
jaw
,
jump all over
,
jump on
,
rail
,
revile
,
speak to
,
talk to
,
tongue-lash
,
trim
,
upbraid
,
vituperate
uncandid
collapse
related words >
artful
,
calculating
,
casuistic
,
crafty
,
deceitful
,
dishonest
,
disingenuous
,
empty
,
falsehearted
,
forsworn
,
hollow
,
insincere
,
jesuitic
,
mealymouthed
,
perjured
,
scheming
,
tongue in cheek
,
unfrank
,
unserious
,
unsincere
,
untruthful
insinuating
collapse
related words >
adulatory
,
allusive
,
allusory
,
bland
,
blandishing
,
blarneying
,
buttery
,
cajoling
,
complimentary
,
courtierly
,
courtly
,
deferential
,
disarming
,
fair-spoken
,
fawning
,
fine-spoken
,
flattering
,
fulsome
,
gushing
,
honey-mouthed
,
honey-tongued
,
honeyed
,
implicational
,
implicative
,
implicatory
,
indicative
,
inferential
,
insincere
,
insinuative
,
insinuatory
,
ironic
,
mealymouthed
,
obsequious
,
oily
,
oily-tongued
,
referential
,
saccharine
,
silken
,
silky
,
slimy
,
slobbery
,
smarmy
,
smooth
,
smooth-spoken
,
smooth-tongued
,
soapy
,
soft-soaping
,
suggestive
,
sycophantic
,
unctuous
,
wheedling
tongue lash
collapse
related words >
abuse
,
bark at
,
bawl out
,
berate
,
betongue
,
blacken
,
bless
,
execrate
,
fulminate against
,
jaw
,
load with reproaches
,
rag
,
rail at
,
rate
,
rave against
,
revile
,
thunder against
,
vilify
,
vituperate
,
yell at
,
yelp at
bouquet
collapse
an arrangement of flowers that is usually given as a present
a pleasingly sweet olfactory property
related words >
TL
,
aroma
,
arrangement
,
bale
,
balm
,
balminess
,
bindle
,
bolt
,
boughpot
,
boutonniere
,
budget
,
bunch
,
bundle
,
buttonhole
,
chaplet
,
commendation
,
compliment
,
compliments
,
corsage
,
deck
,
fagot
,
fardel
,
fasces
,
fascine
,
festoon
,
flattering remark
,
flower arrangement
,
fragrance
,
fragrancy
,
fruitiness
,
garland
,
incense
,
lei
,
muskiness
,
nosegay
,
odor
,
orchids
,
pack
,
package
,
packet
,
parcel
,
perfume
,
polite commendation
,
posy
,
praise
,
quiver
,
redolence
,
roll
,
rouleau
,
scent
,
sheaf
,
spice
,
spiciness
,
spray
,
sweet savor
,
sweet smell
,
trade-last
,
truss
,
wreath
headland
collapse
related words >
beak
,
bill
,
breakwater
,
cape
,
chersonese
,
coral reef
,
delta
,
foreland
,
head
,
hook
,
mull
,
naze
,
ness
,
peninsula
,
point
,
promontory
,
reef
,
sandspit
,
spit
,
spur
,
tongue
promontory
collapse
a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea)
related words >
beak
,
bill
,
breakwater
,
cape
,
chersonese
,
coral reef
,
delta
,
foreland
,
head
,
headland
,
hook
,
mull
,
naze
,
ness
,
peninsula
,
point
,
reef
,
sandspit
,
spit
,
spur
,
tongue
groveling
collapse
related words >
abject
,
accumbent
,
apple-polishing
,
ass-kissing
,
backscratching
,
beggarly
,
bootlicking
,
brown-nosing
,
couchant
,
couche
,
cowering
,
crawling
,
cringing
,
crouching
,
decumbent
,
draped
,
fawnery
,
fawning
,
flat
,
flattering
,
flunkyism
,
footlicking
,
handshaking
,
hangdog
,
ingratiating
,
ingratiation
,
insinuation
,
kowtowing
,
lolling
,
lounging
,
lying
,
mealymouthed
,
mealymouthedness
,
obeisance
,
obeisant
,
obsequious
,
obsequiousness
,
on bended knee
,
parasitic
,
parasitism
,
procumbent
,
prone
,
prostrate
,
prostration
,
reclining
,
recumbent
,
reposing
,
resupine
,
sniveling
,
sponging
,
sprawled
,
sprawling
,
spread
,
supine
,
sycophancy
,
sycophantic
,
timeserving
,
toadeating
,
toadying
,
toadyish
,
toadyism
,
truckling
,
tufthunting
jesuitical
collapse
having qualities characteristic of Jesuits or Jesuitism; "Jesuitical education"
related words >
apparently sound
,
casuistic
,
colorable
,
deceptive
,
dishonest
,
disingenuous
,
empty
,
fallacious
,
hollow
,
illusive
,
insincere
,
jesuitic
,
mealymouthed
,
overrefined
,
oversubtle
,
philosophistic
,
plausible
,
sophistic
,
sophistical
,
specious
,
tongue in cheek
,
uncandid
,
unfrank
,
unserious
tongue lashing
collapse
related words >
abuse
,
assailing
,
assault
,
attack
,
berating
,
bitter words
,
blackening
,
contumely
,
diatribe
,
execration
,
hard words
,
invective
,
jawing
,
jeremiad
,
onslaught
,
philippic
,
rating
,
revilement
,
screed
,
tirade
,
vilification
,
vituperation
berating
collapse
a severe rebuke; "he deserved the berating that the coach gave him"
related words >
abuse
,
assailing
,
assault
,
attack
,
bitter words
,
blackening
,
contumely
,
diatribe
,
execration
,
hard words
,
invective
,
jawing
,
jeremiad
,
onslaught
,
philippic
,
rating
,
revilement
,
screed
,
tirade
,
tongue-lashing
,
vilification
,
vituperation
jawing
collapse
related words >
abuse
,
assailing
,
assault
,
attack
,
berating
,
bitter words
,
blackening
,
contumely
,
diatribe
,
execration
,
hard words
,
invective
,
jeremiad
,
onslaught
,
philippic
,
rating
,
revilement
,
screed
,
tirade
,
tongue-lashing
,
vilification
,
vituperation
sycophantic
collapse
related words >
abject
,
adulatory
,
backscratching
,
beggarly
,
bland
,
blandishing
,
blarneying
,
bootlicking
,
buttery
,
cajoling
,
complimentary
,
courtierly
,
courtly
,
cowering
,
crawling
,
cringing
,
crouching
,
fair-spoken
,
fawning
,
fine-spoken
,
flattering
,
footlicking
,
fulsome
,
groveling
,
gushing
,
hangdog
,
honey-mouthed
,
honey-tongued
,
honeyed
,
ingratiating
,
insincere
,
insinuating
,
kowtowing
,
mealymouthed
,
obeisant
,
obsequious
,
oily
,
oily-tongued
,
on bended knee
,
parasitic
,
prostrate
,
slimy
,
slobbery
,
smarmy
,
smooth
,
smooth-spoken
,
smooth-tongued
,
sniveling
,
soapy
,
soft-soaping
,
sponging
,
timeserving
,
toadeating
,
toadying
,
toadyish
,
truckling
,
unctuous
,
wheedling
smooth tongued
collapse
related words >
Ciceronian
,
Demosthenian
,
Demosthenic
,
Tullian
,
adulatory
,
articulate
,
bland
,
blandishing
,
blarneying
,
buttery
,
cajoling
,
complimentary
,
courtierly
,
courtly
,
disarming
,
eloquent
,
facund
,
fair-spoken
,
fawning
,
felicitous
,
fine-spoken
,
flattering
,
fulsome
,
glib
,
gushing
,
honey-mouthed
,
honey-tongued
,
honeyed
,
ingratiating
,
insincere
,
insinuating
,
mealymouthed
,
obsequious
,
oily
,
oily-tongued
,
silver
,
silver-tongued
,
slick
,
slimy
,
slobbery
,
smarmy
,
smooth
,
smooth-spoken
,
smug
,
soapy
,
soft-soaping
,
soft-spoken
,
spellbinding
,
suave
,
suave-spoken
,
sycophantic
,
unctuous
,
well-spoken
,
wheedling
lip
collapse
fleshy folds of tissue as those surrounding the mouth
related words >
aerophone
,
answer back
,
articulate
,
back talk
,
backchat
,
bagpipe
,
bank
,
bell
,
bilge
,
blain
,
bleb
,
blister
,
blob
,
blow
,
blow a horn
,
board
,
border
,
bordure
,
boss
,
bow
,
breathe
,
brim
,
brink
,
brow
,
bubble
,
bugle
,
bulb
,
bulge
,
bulla
,
bump
,
bunch
,
burl
,
buss
,
button
,
cahot
,
carillon
,
chime
,
chine
,
chorus
,
clarion
,
clump
,
coast
,
come out with
,
communicate
,
condyle
,
convex
,
convey
,
deliver
,
disclose
,
doodle
,
double reed
,
double-tongue
,
dowel
,
ear
,
edge
,
embouchure
,
emit
,
enunciate
,
express
,
featheredge
,
fife
,
flange
,
flap
,
fling off
,
flute
,
formulate
,
frame
,
fringe
,
gall
,
give
,
give expression
,
give out with
,
give tongue
,
give utterance
,
give voice
,
gnarl
,
handle
,
hem
,
hill
,
horn
,
hump
,
hunch
,
impart
,
jaw
,
jog
,
joggle
,
key
,
knob
,
knot
,
knur
,
knurl
,
labellum
,
labium
,
labrum
,
lap
,
lave
,
ledge
,
let out
,
limb
,
limbus
,
list
,
loop
,
lump
,
marge
,
margin
,
mole
,
mountain
,
mouth
,
mouthpiece
,
nevus
,
nub
,
nubbin
,
nubble
,
osculate
,
out with
,
papilloma
,
peck
,
peg
,
phonate
,
phrase
,
pipe
,
pour forth
,
present
,
pronounce
,
provoke
,
put forth
,
put in words
,
ragged edge
,
raise
,
reed
,
rib
,
ridge
,
rim
,
ring
,
sass
,
sassiness
,
sauce
,
sauciness
,
say
,
selvage
,
set forth
,
shore
,
shoulder
,
side
,
sideline
,
skirt
,
slide
,
smack
,
smooch
,
sound
,
spine
,
stud
,
style
,
tab
,
talk back
,
tell
,
throw off
,
tongue
,
toot
,
tooter
,
tootle
,
triple-tongue
,
trumpet
,
tubercle
,
tubercule
,
tweedle
,
utter
,
valve
,
verbalize
,
verge
,
verruca
,
vesicle
,
vocalize
,
voice
,
wale
,
wart
,
wash
,
welt
,
whisper
,
whistle
,
wind
,
wind instrument
,
wind the horn
,
word
sweetbread
collapse
edible glands of an animal
related words >
abatis
,
brains
,
breast of veal
,
chitterlings
,
cockscomb
,
foie de veau
,
fricandeau
,
giblets
,
gizzard
,
haslet
,
heart
,
kidneys
,
liver
,
marrow
,
tongue
,
tripe
,
veal
,
veal cutlet
,
veau
slobber over
collapse
related words >
adulate
,
be theatrical
,
beslobber
,
beslubber
,
blandish
,
cajole
,
compliment
,
conceit
,
emote
,
emotionalize
,
fawn upon
,
flatter
,
gush
,
ham it up
,
make a scene
,
make fair weather
,
oil the tongue
,
palaver
,
praise
,
sentimentalize
,
slop over
,
theatricalize
,
wheedle
tongue in cheek
collapse
related words >
casuistic
,
casuistry
,
crossed fingers
,
dishonest
,
disingenuous
,
disingenuousness
,
emptiness
,
empty
,
hollow
,
hollow mockery
,
hollowness
,
insincere
,
insincerity
,
jesuitic
,
jesuitry
,
mealymouthed
,
mockery
,
sophistry
,
uncandid
,
uncandidness
,
uncandor
,
unfrank
,
unfrankness
,
unserious
braggart
collapse
related words >
Captain Bobadil
,
Gascon
,
Herod
,
Narcissus
,
Scaramouch
,
Texan
,
big mouth
,
blatherskite
,
blower
,
blowhard
,
bluff
,
bluffer
,
blusterer
,
boaster
,
boastful
,
boasting
,
brag
,
braggadocio
,
bragging
,
bravo
,
bucko
,
bully
,
bullyboy
,
conceited
,
egocentric
,
egoist
,
egotist
,
fanfaron
,
fanfaronading
,
gasbag
,
gasconader
,
gasconading
,
hector
,
hectorer
,
hot-air artist
,
individualist
,
know-it-all
,
loudmouth
,
miles gloriosus
,
narcissist
,
narcist
,
no modest violet
,
peacock
,
ranter
,
raver
,
rodomontade
,
roisterer
,
self-advertising
,
self-applauding
,
self-flattering
,
self-glorious
,
self-lauding
,
self-vaunting
,
show-off
,
smart aleck
,
swaggerer
,
swashbuckler
,
swasher
,
swellhead
,
thrasonic
,
thrasonical
,
vain
,
vainglorious
,
vaporer
,
vaporing
,
vaunting
,
windbag
,
windjammer
,
windy
doodle
collapse
make a doodle; draw aimlessly
related words >
ass
,
bagpipe
,
beat
,
beguile the time
,
bilk
,
black and white
,
blow
,
blow a horn
,
born fool
,
brouillon
,
buffoon
,
bugle
,
burn daylight
,
carillon
,
cartoon
,
chalk
,
charcoal
,
charcoal drawing
,
cheat
,
chiaroscuro
,
chisel
,
clarion
,
clown
,
color
,
consume time
,
copy
,
cozen
,
crayon
,
crosshatch
,
dabble
,
dally
,
dash off
,
daub
,
dawdle
,
defraud
,
delineate
,
delineation
,
depict
,
design
,
diagram
,
diddle
,
dillydally
,
do
,
donkey
,
double-tongue
,
draft
,
draw
,
drawing
,
ebauche
,
egregious ass
,
esquisse
,
fife
,
figure of fun
,
flimflam
,
flute
,
fool
,
footle
,
fribble
,
fritter away time
,
graph
,
gyp
,
hatch
,
idiot
,
ignoramus
,
imbecile
,
jackass
,
jerk
,
kill time
,
lag
,
limn
,
line drawing
,
linger
,
lip
,
loiter
,
lollygag
,
lose time
,
lunatic
,
mess
,
mess around
,
milksop
,
mooncalf
,
nincompoop
,
ninny
,
overreach
,
paint
,
paint a picture
,
pass the time
,
pastel
,
pen-and-ink
,
pencil
,
pencil drawing
,
perfect fool
,
picture
,
picturize
,
piddle
,
pipe
,
poke
,
portray
,
potter
,
puddle
,
putter
,
rough copy
,
rough draft
,
rough outline
,
schmuck
,
scrabble
,
scratch
,
scrawl
,
scribble
,
scumble
,
shade
,
silhouette
,
silver-print drawing
,
sinopia
,
sketch
,
softhead
,
sop
,
sound
,
stencil
,
study
,
stupid ass
,
tinker
,
tint
,
tomfool
,
tongue
,
toot
,
tootle
,
trace
,
tracing
,
trifle
,
triple-tongue
,
trumpet
,
tweedle
,
vignette
,
waste time
,
whistle
,
wind
,
wind the horn
,
zany
candor
collapse
the quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech
related words >
accessibility
,
approachability
,
artlessness
,
austerity
,
baldness
,
bareness
,
big mouth
,
bluffness
,
bluntness
,
broadness
,
brusqueness
,
candidness
,
childlikeness
,
common speech
,
communicativeness
,
conversableness
,
cricket
,
directness
,
effusion
,
effusiveness
,
extroversion
,
fair play
,
fair shake
,
fair-mindedness
,
fairness
,
flow of words
,
flowing tongue
,
fluency
,
fluent tongue
,
flux de bouche
,
flux de paroles
,
flux of words
,
forthrightness
,
frankness
,
freedom
,
freeness
,
garrulity
,
garrulousness
,
gassiness
,
genuineness
,
gift of gab
,
glibness
,
good sportsmanship
,
gregariousness
,
guilelessness
,
gush
,
gushiness
,
homespun
,
honesty
,
household words
,
impartiality
,
ingenuousness
,
innocence
,
justice
,
leanness
,
long-windedness
,
loose tongue
,
loquaciousness
,
loquacity
,
matter-of-factness
,
naiveness
,
naivete
,
naivety
,
naturalness
,
objectivity
,
open-mindedness
,
openheartedness
,
openness
,
outgoingness
,
outspokenness
,
plain English
,
plain dealing
,
plain speaking
,
plain speech
,
plain style
,
plain words
,
plainness
,
plainspokenness
,
prolixity
,
prosaicness
,
prosiness
,
restrainedness
,
roundness
,
rustic style
,
severity
,
simpleheartedness
,
simplemindedness
,
simpleness
,
simplicity
,
sincerity
,
single-heartedness
,
single-mindedness
,
singleness of heart
,
slush
,
soberness
,
sociability
,
spareness
,
spate of words
,
sportsmanlikeness
,
sportsmanliness
,
sportsmanship
,
square deal
,
starkness
,
straightforwardness
,
talkativeness
,
the fair thing
,
the handsome thing
,
the proper thing
,
trustfulness
,
unadorned style
,
unadornedness
,
unaffectedness
,
unconstraint
,
unequivocalness
,
unguardedness
,
unimaginativeness
,
unpoeticalness
,
unrepression
,
unreserve
,
unreservedness
,
unrestraint
,
unrestriction
,
unreticence
,
unsecretiveness
,
unsophisticatedness
,
unsophistication
,
unsuppression
,
unsuspiciousness
,
untaciturnity
,
unwariness
,
verbosity
,
vernacular
,
volubility
,
windiness
ingratiating
collapse
calculated to please or gain favor; "a smooth ingratiating manner"
capable of winning favor; "with open arms and an ingratiating smile"
related words >
abject
,
adulatory
,
apple-polishing
,
backscratching
,
beggarly
,
bland
,
bootlicking
,
brown-nosing
,
buttery
,
cajoling
,
cowering
,
crawling
,
cringing
,
crouching
,
deferential
,
disarming
,
fair-spoken
,
fawning
,
fine-spoken
,
flattering
,
footlicking
,
fulsome
,
glib
,
groveling
,
hangdog
,
honey-mouthed
,
honey-tongued
,
insinuating
,
insinuative
,
mealymouthed
,
obeisant
,
obsequious
,
oily
,
oily-tongued
,
on bended knee
,
parasitic
,
prostrate
,
saccharine
,
servile
,
silken
,
silky
,
slimy
,
smarmy
,
smooth
,
smooth-spoken
,
smooth-tongued
,
smug
,
sniveling
,
soapy
,
soft-spoken
,
sponging
,
suave
,
suave-spoken
,
sugary
,
sycophantic
,
timeserving
,
toadeating
,
toadying
,
toadyish
,
truckling
,
unctuous
,
wheedling
berate
collapse
related words >
abuse
,
bark at
,
bawl out
,
betongue
,
blacken
,
castigate
,
chew out
,
chide
,
excoriate
,
execrate
,
fulminate against
,
harangue
,
jaw
,
load with reproaches
,
objurgate
,
rag
,
rail
,
rail at
,
rate
,
rave against
,
revile
,
scold
,
thunder against
,
tongue-lash
,
upbraid
,
vilify
,
vituperate
,
yell at
,
yelp at
vernacular
collapse
the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language)
related words >
Babbittish
,
Philistine
,
aboriginal
,
accustomed
,
ancient language
,
argot
,
austerity
,
autochthonous
,
average
,
baldness
,
bareness
,
bourgeois
,
campy
,
candor
,
cant
,
classical language
,
colloquial
,
colloquial speech
,
colloquial usage
,
colloquialism
,
common
,
common speech
,
commonplace
,
confined
,
conventional
,
conversational
,
conversationalism
,
current
,
customary
,
dead language
,
directness
,
easy
,
endemic
,
everyday
,
familiar
,
frankness
,
general
,
geographically limited
,
gibberish
,
gobbledygook
,
habitual
,
high-camp
,
homebred
,
homegrown
,
homely
,
homespun
,
household
,
household words
,
idiom
,
illiterate speech
,
indigenous
,
informal
,
informal English
,
informal language
,
informal speech
,
insular
,
jargon
,
kitschy
,
language
,
leanness
,
limited
,
lingo
,
living language
,
local
,
localized
,
low-camp
,
matter-of-factness
,
mother tongue
,
mumbo jumbo
,
natal
,
native
,
native language
,
native speech
,
native tongue
,
native-born
,
naturalness
,
nonstandard
,
normative
,
of a place
,
openness
,
ordinary
,
original
,
parent language
,
parochial
,
patois
,
patter
,
phraseology
,
plain
,
plain English
,
plain speaking
,
plain speech
,
plain style
,
plain words
,
plainness
,
plebeian
,
pop
,
popular
,
predominating
,
prescriptive
,
prevailing
,
primitive
,
prosaicness
,
prosiness
,
provincial
,
public
,
regional
,
regular
,
regulation
,
restrainedness
,
rustic style
,
scatology
,
severity
,
simple
,
simpleness
,
simplicity
,
slang
,
soberness
,
spareness
,
speech
,
spoken
,
spoken language
,
standard
,
starkness
,
stock
,
straightforward
,
straightforwardness
,
substandard
,
substandard language
,
taboo language
,
talk
,
topical
,
unadorned style
,
unadornedness
,
unaffectedness
,
uneducated
,
unimaginativeness
,
universal
,
unliterary
,
unpoeticalness
,
unstudied
,
usual
,
vernacularism
,
vocabulary
,
vulgar
,
vulgar language
,
vulgar tongue
,
vulgate
,
wonted
vituperation
collapse
abusive or venomous language used to express blame or censure or bitter deep-seated ill will
related words >
abuse
,
assailing
,
assault
,
attack
,
berating
,
billingsgate
,
bitter words
,
blackening
,
blame
,
calumny
,
censure
,
contumely
,
diatribe
,
execration
,
hard words
,
invective
,
jawing
,
jeremiad
,
obloquy
,
onslaught
,
opprobrium
,
philippic
,
rating
,
revilement
,
scolding
,
screed
,
scurrility
,
tirade
,
tongue-lashing
,
vilification
aftertaste
collapse
an afterimage of a taste
related words >
afterbirth
,
afterclap
,
aftercrop
,
aftereffect
,
afterglow
,
aftergrowth
,
afterimage
,
aftermath
,
afterpain
,
bitter
,
by-product
,
flavor
,
gust
,
palate
,
placenta
,
relish
,
salt
,
sapidity
,
sapor
,
savor
,
savoriness
,
secundines
,
side effect
,
smack
,
sour
,
stomach
,
sweet
,
tang
,
taste
,
tongue
,
tooth
,
track
,
trail
,
wake
slip of the tongue
collapse
an accidental and usually trivial mistake in speaking
related words >
balk
,
bevue
,
false move
,
false step
,
inadvertence
,
inadvertency
,
lapse
,
lapsus calami
,
lapsus linguae
,
loose thread
,
miscue
,
misstep
,
omission
,
oversight
,
slip
,
slipup
,
stumble
,
trip
,
wrong step
tight lipped
collapse
related words >
brief
,
brusque
,
close
,
close-tongued
,
closemouthed
,
concise
,
curt
,
dumb
,
economical of words
,
indisposed to talk
,
laconic
,
mum
,
mute
,
quiet
,
short
,
silent
,
snug
,
sparing of words
,
speechless
,
taciturn
,
terse
,
tongue-tied
,
unloquacious
,
untalkative
,
word-bound
,
wordless
untalkative
collapse
related words >
brief
,
brusque
,
close
,
close-tongued
,
closemouthed
,
concise
,
curt
,
dumb
,
economical of words
,
indisposed to talk
,
laconic
,
mum
,
mute
,
quiet
,
short
,
silent
,
snug
,
sparing of words
,
speechless
,
taciturn
,
terse
,
tight-lipped
,
tongue-tied
,
unloquacious
,
word-bound
,
wordless
parlance
collapse
a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language
related words >
choice of words
,
composition
,
dialect
,
diction
,
expression
,
formulation
,
grammar
,
idiom
,
jargon
,
language
,
langue
,
lingo
,
lingua
,
locution
,
parole
,
personal usage
,
phrase
,
phraseology
,
phrasing
,
rhetoric
,
speech
,
talk
,
tongue
,
usage
,
use of words
,
usus loquendi
,
verbiage
,
wordage
,
wording
courtly
collapse
refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court; "a courtly gentleman"
related words >
adulatory
,
aristocratic
,
august
,
bland
,
blandishing
,
blarneying
,
buttery
,
cajoling
,
ceremonious
,
chivalric
,
chivalrous
,
civilized
,
complimentary
,
conventional
,
courtierly
,
dignified
,
fair-spoken
,
fawning
,
fine-spoken
,
flattering
,
formal
,
fulsome
,
gallant
,
gracious
,
grand
,
grave
,
gushing
,
honey-mouthed
,
honey-tongued
,
honeyed
,
imposing
,
insincere
,
insinuating
,
kingly
,
knightly
,
lofty
,
lordly
,
magisterial
,
majestic
,
mealymouthed
,
noble
,
obsequious
,
oily
,
oily-tongued
,
old-fashioned
,
old-world
,
prim
,
princely
,
queenly
,
regal
,
royal
,
sedate
,
slimy
,
slobbery
,
smarmy
,
smooth
,
smooth-spoken
,
smooth-tongued
,
soapy
,
sober
,
soft-soaping
,
solemn
,
starchy
,
stately
,
statuesque
,
stiff
,
stilted
,
studied
,
sycophantic
,
unctuous
,
venerable
,
wheedling
,
worthy
flattering
collapse
showing or representing to advantage; "a flattering color"
related words >
abject
,
acclamatory
,
admiring
,
adulatory
,
appreciative
,
approbatory
,
backscratching
,
becoming
,
beggarly
,
bland
,
blandishing
,
blarneying
,
bootlicking
,
buttery
,
cajoling
,
commendatory
,
complimentary
,
courtierly
,
courtly
,
cowering
,
crawling
,
cringing
,
crouching
,
encomiastic
,
enhancing
,
eulogistic
,
fair-spoken
,
fawning
,
fine-spoken
,
footlicking
,
fulsome
,
gratifying
,
groveling
,
gushing
,
hangdog
,
honey-mouthed
,
honey-tongued
,
honeyed
,
ingratiating
,
insincere
,
insinuating
,
kind
,
laudatory
,
mealymouthed
,
obeisant
,
obsequious
,
oily
,
oily-tongued
,
on bended knee
,
panegyric
,
parasitic
,
prostrate
,
regardful
,
respectful
,
slimy
,
slobbery
,
smarmy
,
smooth
,
smooth-spoken
,
smooth-tongued
,
sniveling
,
soapy
,
soft-soaping
,
sponging
,
sugary
,
sycophantic
,
timeserving
,
toadeating
,
toadying
,
toadyish
,
truckling
,
unctuous
,
wheedling
lecture
collapse
teaching by giving a discourse on some subject (typically to a class)
a lengthy rebuke; "a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline"; "the teacher gave him a talking to"
a speech that is open to the public; "he attended a lecture on telecommunications"
deliver a lecture or talk; "She will talk at Rutgers next week"; "Did you ever lecture at Harvard?"
related words >
address
,
admonish
,
admonishment
,
admonition
,
assignment
,
berate
,
berating
,
bring to book
,
call to account
,
castigation
,
censure
,
chalk talk
,
chastise
,
chastisement
,
chew out
,
chide
,
chiding
,
correct
,
correction
,
criticism
,
declaim
,
declamation
,
deliver a lecture
,
diatribe
,
discourse
,
disquisition
,
dissertation
,
dress down
,
dressing-down
,
exercise
,
explain
,
exposit
,
exposition
,
expound
,
fulminate against
,
harangue
,
have words with
,
hold forth
,
homework
,
homily
,
instruction
,
lecture-demonstration
,
lesson
,
moral
,
moral lesson
,
morality
,
moralization
,
moralize
,
object lesson
,
objurgate
,
objurgation
,
orate
,
paper
,
philippic
,
point a moral
,
pontificate
,
preach
,
preachification
,
preachify
,
preaching
,
preachment
,
prelect
,
prelection
,
rail at
,
rate
,
rating
,
read a lesson
,
read a sermon
,
rebuke
,
recital
,
recitation
,
religious discourse
,
remonstration
,
reprehend
,
reprehension
,
reprimand
,
reproach
,
reprobation
,
reproof
,
reproval
,
reprove
,
scold
,
scolding
,
screed
,
sermon
,
sermonette
,
sermonize
,
set down
,
set straight
,
set task
,
skull session
,
spank
,
spanking
,
speech
,
straighten out
,
take down
,
take to task
,
talk
,
task
,
teaching
,
tell off
,
tongue-lash
,
tongue-lashing
,
travelogue
,
treatise
,
upbraid
,
upbraiding
,
warn
,
wig
obsequious
collapse
attentive in an ingratiating or servile manner; "obsequious shop assistants"
related words >
abject
,
adulatory
,
ass-kissing
,
backscratching
,
beggarly
,
bland
,
blandishing
,
blarneying
,
bootlicking
,
brown-nosing
,
buttery
,
cajoling
,
complimentary
,
courtierly
,
courtly
,
cowering
,
crawling
,
cringing
,
crouching
,
deferential
,
fair-spoken
,
fawning
,
fine-spoken
,
flattering
,
footlicking
,
fulsome
,
groveling
,
gushing
,
hangdog
,
honey-mouthed
,
honey-tongued
,
honeyed
,
ingratiating
,
insincere
,
insinuating
,
low
,
mealy-mouthed
,
mealymouthed
,
menial
,
obeisant
,
oily
,
oily-tongued
,
on bended knee
,
parasitic
,
prone
,
prostrate
,
servile
,
slavish
,
slimy
,
slobbery
,
smarmy
,
smooth
,
smooth-spoken
,
smooth-tongued
,
sniveling
,
soapy
,
soft-soaping
,
sponging
,
submissive
,
subservient
,
sycophantic
,
sycophantical
,
sycophantish
,
timeserving
,
toadeating
,
toadying
,
toadyish
,
truckling
,
unctuous
,
wheedling
complimentary
collapse
conveying or resembling a compliment; "a complimentary remark"
costing nothing; "complimentary tickets"; "free admission"
related words >
acclamatory
,
admiring
,
adulatory
,
appreciative
,
approbatory
,
bland
,
blandishing
,
blarneying
,
buttery
,
cajoling
,
charitable
,
commendatory
,
congratulational
,
congratulatory
,
costless
,
courtierly
,
courtly
,
eleemosynary
,
encomiastic
,
eulogistic
,
expenseless
,
fair-spoken
,
fawning
,
fine-spoken
,
flattering
,
for free
,
for love
,
for nothing
,
free
,
free as air
,
free for nothing
,
free gratis
,
free of charge
,
free of cost
,
freebie
,
fulsome
,
giftlike
,
given
,
gratis
,
gratuitous
,
gratulant
,
gratulatory
,
gushing
,
honey-mouthed
,
honey-tongued
,
honeyed
,
insincere
,
insinuating
,
laudatory
,
mealymouthed
,
obsequious
,
oily
,
oily-tongued
,
on the house
,
panegyric
,
panegyrical
,
regardful
,
respectful
,
slimy
,
slobbery
,
smarmy
,
smooth
,
smooth-spoken
,
smooth-tongued
,
soapy
,
soft-soaping
,
sycophantic
,
unbought
,
unctuous
,
unpaid-for
,
untaxed
,
wheedling
,
without charge
upbraid
collapse
related words >
admonish
,
bawl out
,
berate
,
bring to book
,
call to account
,
castigate
,
censure
,
chastise
,
chew out
,
chide
,
correct
,
dress down
,
give a dressing-down
,
have words with
,
lash
,
lecture
,
objurgate
,
rate
,
rebuke
,
reprehend
,
reprimand
,
reproach
,
reprove
,
revile
,
scold
,
set down
,
set straight
,
spank
,
straighten out
,
take down
,
take to task
,
tell off
,
tick off
,
tongue-lash
,
vituperate
sleigh bell
collapse
bell attached to a sleigh, or to harness of horse pulling a sleigh
related words >
bell
,
chimes
,
church bell
,
clapper
,
cowbell
,
dinner bell
,
dinner gong
,
doorbell
,
fire bell
,
gong
,
gong bell
,
hand bell
,
jingle bell
,
passing bell
,
sacring bell
,
sheepbell
,
telephone bell
,
tintinnabulum
,
tongue
,
triangle
doorbell
collapse
a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed
related words >
bell
,
chimes
,
church bell
,
clapper
,
cowbell
,
dinner bell
,
dinner gong
,
fire bell
,
gong
,
gong bell
,
hand bell
,
jingle bell
,
passing bell
,
sacring bell
,
sheepbell
,
sleigh bell
,
telephone bell
,
tintinnabulum
,
tongue
,
triangle
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