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in contempt of
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jeer
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showing your contempt by derision
laugh at with contempt and derision; "The crowd jeered at the speaker"
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Parthian shot
,
affront
,
aspersion
,
atrocity
,
back answer
,
barrack
,
boo
,
brickbat
,
bullyrag
,
call names
,
catcall
,
caustic remark
,
chaff
,
comeback
,
contempt
,
contumely
,
crack
,
cut
,
cut at
,
cutting remark
,
decry
,
deride
,
derision
,
despite
,
dig
,
dig at
,
dishonor
,
disoblige
,
dump
,
dump on
,
enormity
,
fleer
,
fleer at
,
flout
,
flouting
,
foolery
,
gibe
,
gibe at
,
gibing retort
,
gird
,
give offense to
,
hiss
,
hoot
,
humiliate
,
humiliation
,
hurl a brickbat
,
indignity
,
injury
,
insult
,
jab
,
jab at
,
jape
,
jeer at
,
jeering
,
jest
,
jibe
,
jibe at
,
knock
,
leg-pull
,
make fun of
,
mock
,
mockery
,
obloquy
,
offend
,
offense
,
outrage
,
parting shot
,
pooh
,
pooh-pooh
,
put down
,
put-down
,
put-on
,
quip
,
rag
,
rail at
,
rally
,
rank out
,
revile
,
ridicule
,
roast
,
rude reproach
,
scoff
,
scoff at
,
scout
,
scurrility
,
short answer
,
slam
,
slap
,
slap at
,
sneer
,
sneer at
,
swipe
,
taunt
,
treat with indignity
,
twit
,
uncomplimentary remark
,
verbal thrust
patronage
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(politics) granting favors or giving contracts or making appointments to office in return for political support
support by being a patron of
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abetment
,
administration
,
advocacy
,
advocating
,
advocation
,
aegis
,
aid
,
auspices
,
backing
,
benefaction
,
bias
,
boosting
,
business
,
care
,
carriage trade
,
certificate of character
,
championship
,
character
,
character reference
,
charge
,
charity
,
clientage
,
clientele
,
condescension
,
contempt
,
contumely
,
countenance
,
credential
,
cure
,
custodianship
,
custody
,
custom
,
deigning
,
disdain
,
encouragement
,
favor
,
favoritism
,
favors of office
,
financing
,
fosterage
,
good name
,
goodwill
,
governance
,
government
,
guardianship
,
guidance
,
hands
,
help
,
humiliation
,
interest
,
jurisdiction
,
keeping
,
letter of introduction
,
management
,
market
,
melon
,
ministry
,
nepotism
,
oversight
,
partiality
,
pastorage
,
pastorate
,
pastorship
,
patronizing
,
plum
,
political patronage
,
pork
,
pork barrel
,
pork-barreling
,
preference
,
promotion
,
protection
,
protectorship
,
public
,
purchasing public
,
recommend
,
recommendation
,
reference
,
repute
,
rural market
,
safe hands
,
scorn
,
seconding
,
spoils system
,
sponsorship
,
stewardship
,
stooping
,
subsidy
,
suburban market
,
superiority
,
support
,
sympathy
,
testimonial
,
trade
,
trading
,
traffic
,
tutelage
,
voucher
,
ward
,
wardenship
,
wardship
,
watch and ward
,
wing
,
youth market
pitiful
collapse
related words >
abominable
,
affecting
,
arrant
,
atrocious
,
awful
,
base
,
beastly
,
beggarly
,
beneath contempt
,
beneath one
,
blameworthy
,
brutal
,
cheap
,
cheesy
,
common
,
contemptible
,
crummy
,
debasing
,
degrading
,
demeaning
,
deplorable
,
despicable
,
detestable
,
dire
,
disgraceful
,
disgusting
,
doleful
,
dreadful
,
egregious
,
enormous
,
fetid
,
filthy
,
flagrant
,
foul
,
fulsome
,
gaudy
,
gimcracky
,
grievous
,
gross
,
gutter
,
hateful
,
heartrending
,
heinous
,
horrible
,
horrid
,
humiliating
,
humiliative
,
infamous
,
infra dig
,
infra indignitatem
,
insignificant
,
lamentable
,
little
,
loathsome
,
lousy
,
mean
,
meretricious
,
miserable
,
monstrous
,
moving
,
nasty
,
nefarious
,
noisome
,
notorious
,
obnoxious
,
odious
,
offensive
,
opprobrious
,
outrageous
,
paltry
,
pathetic
,
piteous
,
pitiable
,
poor
,
rank
,
regrettable
,
reprehensible
,
repulsive
,
rotten
,
rubbishy
,
rueful
,
sad
,
scandalous
,
schlock
,
scrubby
,
scruffy
,
scummy
,
scurvy
,
scuzzy
,
shabby
,
shameful
,
shocking
,
shoddy
,
small
,
sordid
,
sorry
,
squalid
,
terrible
,
too bad
,
touching
,
trashy
,
trifling
,
trumpery
,
two-for-a-cent
,
two-for-a-penny
,
twopenny
,
twopenny-halfpenny
,
unbecoming
,
unclean
,
unimportant
,
unworthy of one
,
valueless
,
vile
,
villainous
,
woeful
,
worst
,
worthless
,
wretched
blameworthy
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deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious; "blameworthy if not criminal behavior"; "censurable misconduct"; "culpable negligence"
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abominable
,
accusable
,
amiss
,
arraignable
,
arrant
,
at fault
,
atrocious
,
awful
,
bad
,
base
,
beastly
,
beneath contempt
,
black
,
blamable
,
blameful
,
brutal
,
censurable
,
chargeable
,
contemptible
,
criminal
,
culpable
,
damnable
,
dark
,
delinquent
,
deplorable
,
despicable
,
detestable
,
dire
,
disgraceful
,
disgusting
,
dreadful
,
egregious
,
enormous
,
evil
,
execrable
,
faultful
,
fetid
,
filthy
,
flagitious
,
flagrant
,
foolish
,
foul
,
fulsome
,
grievous
,
gross
,
guilty
,
hateful
,
heinous
,
horrible
,
horrid
,
illaudable
,
impeachable
,
improper
,
imputable
,
indictable
,
infamous
,
iniquitous
,
irresponsible
,
knavish
,
lamentable
,
loathsome
,
lousy
,
low
,
monstrous
,
nasty
,
naughty
,
nefarious
,
noisome
,
notorious
,
obnoxious
,
odious
,
offensive
,
open to criticism
,
outrageous
,
peccant
,
pitiable
,
pitiful
,
punishable
,
rank
,
reckless
,
regrettable
,
reprehensible
,
reproachable
,
reprobate
,
reprovable
,
repulsive
,
rotten
,
sad
,
scandalous
,
schlock
,
scurvy
,
shabby
,
shameful
,
shocking
,
shoddy
,
sinful
,
sordid
,
squalid
,
terrible
,
to blame
,
too bad
,
unclean
,
uncommendable
,
unforgivable
,
unholy
,
unpardonable
,
unpraiseworthy
,
unpretty
,
unspeakable
,
unworthy
,
vicious
,
vile
,
villainous
,
wicked
,
woeful
,
worst
,
worthless
,
wretched
,
wrong
villainous
collapse
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abandoned
,
abominable
,
arrant
,
atrocious
,
awful
,
bad
,
base
,
beastly
,
beneath contempt
,
bent
,
black
,
blackguardly
,
blamable
,
blameworthy
,
brutal
,
contemptible
,
contrary
,
corrupt
,
criminal
,
crooked
,
damnable
,
dark
,
debased
,
degenerate
,
degraded
,
deplorable
,
despicable
,
detestable
,
dire
,
disgraceful
,
disgusting
,
dishonest
,
dissolute
,
dreadful
,
egregious
,
enormous
,
evil
,
execrable
,
faithless
,
felonious
,
fetid
,
filthy
,
flagitious
,
flagrant
,
foul
,
fulsome
,
grievous
,
gross
,
hateful
,
heinous
,
horrible
,
horrid
,
improper
,
infamous
,
iniquitous
,
knavish
,
lamentable
,
loathsome
,
lousy
,
low
,
miscreant
,
monstrous
,
murderous
,
nasty
,
naughty
,
nefarious
,
noisome
,
notorious
,
objectionable
,
obnoxious
,
odious
,
offensive
,
outrageous
,
peccant
,
perfidious
,
perverse
,
perverted
,
pitiable
,
pitiful
,
profligate
,
putrid
,
rank
,
rascally
,
recreant
,
regrettable
,
reprehensible
,
reprobate
,
repulsive
,
roguish
,
rotten
,
sad
,
scampish
,
scandalous
,
schlock
,
scoundrelly
,
scurvy
,
shabby
,
shameful
,
shocking
,
shoddy
,
sinful
,
sordid
,
squalid
,
terrible
,
too bad
,
traitorous
,
treacherous
,
unclean
,
unforgivable
,
unpardonable
,
unscrupulous
,
unspeakable
,
unworthy
,
vicious
,
vile
,
wicked
,
woeful
,
worst
,
worthless
,
wretched
,
wrong
snort
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make a snorting sound by exhaling hard; "The critic snorted contemptuously"
indicate contempt by breathing noisily and forcefully through the nose; "she snorted her disapproval of the proposed bridegroom"
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Homeric laughter
,
assibilate
,
assibilation
,
bark
,
bawl
,
be above
,
be contemptuous of
,
be in stitches
,
bellow
,
belly laugh
,
beverage
,
blare
,
blat
,
blow
,
blubber
,
boff
,
boffola
,
boom
,
bray
,
break up
,
breathe
,
breathe hard
,
breathe in
,
breathe out
,
bumper
,
burst into laughter
,
burst of laughter
,
burst out
,
burst out laughing
,
burst with laughter
,
bust a gut
,
buzz
,
cachinnate
,
cachinnation
,
cackle
,
care nothing for
,
chant
,
chirp
,
chortle
,
chuckle
,
contemn
,
convulsion
,
coo
,
cough
,
crow
,
cut
,
cut direct
,
deride
,
despise
,
disdain
,
disparage
,
disprize
,
disregard
,
draft
,
dram
,
drawl
,
drench
,
drink
,
drop
,
dump on
,
effervesce
,
effervescence
,
effervescing
,
exclaim
,
exhale
,
exhaust
,
expel
,
expire
,
feel contempt for
,
feel superior to
,
fit of laughter
,
fizz
,
fizzle
,
fizzling
,
fleer
,
flute
,
frication
,
frictional rustling
,
gales of laughter
,
gargle
,
gasp
,
giggle
,
go into convulsions
,
growl
,
grunt
,
gruntle
,
guffaw
,
gulp
,
guzzle
,
ha-ha
,
hack
,
hearty laugh
,
hee-haw
,
hee-hee
,
hiccup
,
hilarity
,
hiss
,
hissing
,
ho-ho
,
hold beneath one
,
hold cheap
,
hold in contempt
,
horselaugh
,
huff
,
humiliation
,
hush
,
hushing
,
inhale
,
inspire
,
insult
,
jigger
,
jolt
,
keen
,
lap
,
laugh
,
laugh it up
,
laugh outright
,
laughing
,
laughter
,
leer
,
libation
,
lilt
,
lisp
,
look down upon
,
misprize
,
mumble
,
murmur
,
mutter
,
nearly die laughing
,
nip
,
oink
,
outburst of laughter
,
pant
,
peal of laughter
,
peg
,
pipe
,
portion
,
potation
,
potion
,
puff
,
pull
,
put down
,
quaff
,
rank low
,
rebuff
,
repulse
,
respire
,
rhonchus
,
ridicule
,
risibility
,
roar
,
roar of laughter
,
roar with laughter
,
round
,
round of drinks
,
rumble
,
sardonic grin
,
scorn
,
scornful laugh
,
scream
,
screech
,
set at naught
,
shake like jelly
,
shake with laughter
,
shot
,
shout
,
shout of laughter
,
shriek
,
shush
,
shushing
,
sibilance
,
sibilate
,
sibilation
,
siffle
,
sigh
,
sigmatism
,
sing
,
sip
,
siss
,
sissing
,
sizz
,
sizzle
,
sizzling
,
slight
,
slug
,
slurp
,
smirk
,
snap
,
snarl
,
sneer
,
sneer at
,
sneeze
,
sneeze at
,
sneezing
,
snicker
,
sniff
,
sniff at
,
sniffle
,
snifter
,
snigger
,
snore
,
snort at
,
snub
,
snuff
,
snuffle
,
sob
,
spit
,
split
,
split with laughter
,
splutter
,
spot
,
spurn
,
spurning
,
sputter
,
squall
,
squash
,
squawk
,
squeal
,
squelch
,
squish
,
sternutation
,
stertor
,
suck
,
sup
,
swig
,
swill
,
swish
,
tee-hee
,
the cold shoulder
,
the go-by
,
think nothing of
,
thunder
,
titter
,
tot
,
trumpet
,
twang
,
wail
,
warble
,
wet
,
wheeze
,
whine
,
whish
,
whisper
,
whistle
,
whistling
,
white noise
,
whiz
,
whoosh
,
yap
,
yawp
,
yell
,
yelp
,
yuck
,
yuk-yuk
,
zip
lamentable
collapse
related words >
abominable
,
affecting
,
afflictive
,
aggrieved
,
anguished
,
arrant
,
atrocious
,
awful
,
base
,
beastly
,
beneath contempt
,
bitter
,
blameworthy
,
bleak
,
brutal
,
calamitous
,
careworn
,
cheerless
,
comfortless
,
contemptible
,
deplorable
,
depressing
,
depressive
,
despicable
,
detestable
,
dire
,
discomforting
,
disgusting
,
dismal
,
dismaying
,
distressful
,
distressing
,
doleful
,
dolorific
,
dolorogenic
,
dolorous
,
dreadful
,
dreary
,
dumb with grief
,
egregious
,
enormous
,
fetid
,
filthy
,
flagrant
,
foul
,
fulsome
,
grief-stricken
,
griefful
,
grieved
,
grievous
,
gross
,
hateful
,
heartbreaking
,
heinous
,
horrible
,
horrid
,
in grief
,
infamous
,
intolerable
,
joyless
,
loathsome
,
lousy
,
lugubrious
,
miserable
,
monstrous
,
mournful
,
moving
,
nasty
,
nefarious
,
noisome
,
notorious
,
obnoxious
,
odious
,
offensive
,
outrageous
,
painful
,
pathetic
,
piteous
,
pitiable
,
pitiful
,
plaintive
,
plangent
,
plunged in grief
,
poignant
,
rank
,
regrettable
,
reprehensible
,
repulsive
,
rotten
,
rueful
,
sad
,
saddening
,
scandalous
,
schlock
,
scurvy
,
shabby
,
shameful
,
sharp
,
shocking
,
shoddy
,
sordid
,
sore
,
sorrowed
,
sorrowful
,
sorrowing
,
squalid
,
tearful
,
terrible
,
too bad
,
touching
,
unclean
,
uncomfortable
,
unfortunate
,
vile
,
villainous
,
woebegone
,
woeful
,
worst
,
worthless
,
wretched
dare
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a challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy; "he could never refuse a dare"
to be courageous enough to try or do something; "I don't dare call him", "she dares to dress differently from the others"
related words >
affront
,
aim to
,
assume
,
attempt
,
attempt to
,
battle cry
,
be a man
,
beard
,
bid defiance
,
bid to combat
,
brave
,
breast
,
bring before
,
bring forward
,
bring up
,
call out
,
cartel
,
challenge
,
chance
,
change
,
confront
,
confront with
,
court destruction
,
dare to
,
defi
,
defy
,
defy danger
,
deride
,
double dare
,
double-dare
,
encounter
,
envisage
,
face
,
face out
,
face up to
,
face with
,
forget the odds
,
front
,
gage
,
gage of battle
,
gamble
,
gauntlet
,
get fresh
,
get smart
,
glove
,
have a nerve
,
have the cheek
,
have the gall
,
have the guts
,
have the nerve
,
hazard
,
hold in contempt
,
lay before
,
make bold
,
make bold to
,
make free
,
meet
,
meet squarely
,
outdare
,
outface
,
place before
,
play with fire
,
present to
,
presume
,
pretend
,
pretend to
,
provocation
,
provoke
,
put it to
,
rebel yell
,
ridicule
,
risk
,
run the chance
,
run the risk
,
scream defiance
,
seek to
,
set before
,
show fight
,
stare down
,
stem
,
strive to
,
study to
,
stump
,
take a chance
,
take chances
,
take liberties
,
take the liberty
,
taunt
,
tempt Providence
,
try and
,
try to
,
ultimatum
,
venture
,
venture to
,
war cry
,
war whoop
nefarious
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extremely wicked; "nefarious schemes"; "a villainous plot"; "a villainous band of thieves"
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abject
,
abominable
,
arrant
,
atrocious
,
awful
,
bad
,
base
,
beastly
,
beggarly
,
beneath contempt
,
black
,
blamable
,
blameworthy
,
brutal
,
cheesy
,
contemptible
,
corrupt
,
criminal
,
crummy
,
damnable
,
dark
,
debased
,
degenerate
,
degraded
,
deplorable
,
depraved
,
despicable
,
detestable
,
dire
,
dirty
,
disgraceful
,
disgusting
,
dreadful
,
egregious
,
enormous
,
evil
,
execrable
,
fetid
,
filthy
,
flagitious
,
flagrant
,
foul
,
fulsome
,
glaring
,
grave
,
grievous
,
gross
,
hateful
,
heinous
,
horrible
,
horrid
,
improper
,
infamous
,
iniquitous
,
knavish
,
lamentable
,
little
,
loathsome
,
lousy
,
low
,
low-down
,
lumpen
,
mangy
,
mean
,
measly
,
miscreant
,
miserable
,
monstrous
,
nasty
,
naughty
,
noisome
,
notorious
,
obnoxious
,
odious
,
offensive
,
outrageous
,
paltry
,
peccant
,
perverse
,
petty
,
pitiable
,
pitiful
,
poky
,
poor
,
putrid
,
rank
,
regrettable
,
reprehensible
,
reprobate
,
reptilian
,
repulsive
,
rotten
,
sad
,
scabby
,
scandalous
,
schlock
,
scrubby
,
scruffy
,
scummy
,
scurvy
,
shabby
,
shameful
,
shocking
,
shoddy
,
sinful
,
small
,
sordid
,
squalid
,
terrible
,
too bad
,
unclean
,
unforgivable
,
unmentionable
,
unpardonable
,
unspeakable
,
unworthy
,
vicious
,
vile
,
villainous
,
wicked
,
woeful
,
worst
,
worthless
,
wretched
,
wrong
scummy
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abject
,
abominable
,
arrant
,
atrocious
,
barfy
,
base
,
beggarly
,
beneath contempt
,
cheap
,
cheesy
,
common
,
contemptible
,
crappy
,
crummy
,
debased
,
degraded
,
depraved
,
despicable
,
dirty
,
disgusting
,
execrable
,
fecal
,
feculent
,
fetid
,
filmy
,
filthy
,
flagrant
,
flyblown
,
foliaceous
,
foliated
,
foul
,
fulsome
,
gaudy
,
gimcracky
,
gloppy
,
grave
,
gross
,
gunky
,
heinous
,
icky
,
in layers
,
lamellar
,
lamellate
,
lamellated
,
lamelliform
,
laminate
,
laminated
,
laminous
,
leaflike
,
leafy
,
little
,
low
,
low-down
,
lumpen
,
maggoty
,
malodorous
,
mangy
,
mean
,
measly
,
membranous
,
mephitic
,
meretricious
,
miserable
,
monstrous
,
mucky
,
nasty
,
nauseating
,
nefarious
,
obnoxious
,
odious
,
ordurous
,
paltry
,
pathetic
,
petty
,
pitiable
,
pitiful
,
poky
,
poor
,
puky
,
putrid
,
rank
,
reptilian
,
repulsive
,
rotten
,
rubbishy
,
sad
,
scabby
,
scrubby
,
scruffy
,
scurfy
,
scurvy
,
scuzzy
,
shabby
,
shitty
,
shoddy
,
slabby
,
slimy
,
sloppy
,
sloshy
,
sludgy
,
slushy
,
small
,
sorry
,
spathic
,
spathose
,
sposhy
,
squalid
,
stratified
,
stratiform
,
three-ply
,
trashy
,
trumpery
,
two-for-a-cent
,
two-for-a-penny
,
two-ply
,
twopenny
,
twopenny-halfpenny
,
unmentionable
,
valueless
,
vile
,
vomity
,
wormy
,
worthless
,
wretched
,
yecchy
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