Related Words:
- recitation
collapse - a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance; "the program included songs and recitations of well-loved poems"
- written matter that is recited from memory related words >
- address,
- after-dinner speech,
- allocution,
- assignment,
- chalk talk,
- debate,
- declamation,
- diatribe,
- discourse,
- disquisition,
- eulogy,
- exercise,
- exhortation,
- exposition,
- filibuster,
- forensic,
- forensic address,
- formal speech,
- funeral oration,
- harangue,
- homework,
- homily,
- hortatory address,
- inaugural,
- inaugural address,
- instruction,
- invective,
- jeremiad,
- lecture,
- lecture-demonstration,
- lesson,
- monologue,
- moral,
- moral lesson,
- morality,
- moralization,
- object lesson,
- oration,
- pep talk,
- performance,
- peroration,
- philippic,
- pitch,
- preachment,
- prepared speech,
- prepared text,
- public speech,
- reading,
- recital,
- sales talk,
- salutatory,
- salutatory address,
- say,
- screed,
- sermon,
- set speech,
- set task,
- skull session,
- speech,
- speechification,
- speeching,
- talk,
- talkathon,
- task,
- teaching,
- tirade,
- valediction,
- valedictory,
- valedictory address
- censorious
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- harshly critical or expressing censure; "was censorious of petty failings" related words >
- Quakerish,
- Victorian,
- abusive,
- accusatory,
- back-biting,
- belittling,
- bitchy,
- blackening,
- blameful,
- calumniatory,
- calumnious,
- captious,
- carping,
- catty,
- caviling,
- chiding,
- choicy,
- choosy,
- condemnatory,
- conscientious,
- contemptuous,
- contumelious,
- critic,
- critical,
- damnatory,
- defamatory,
- demure,
- denunciatory,
- deprecative,
- deprecatory,
- depreciative,
- depreciatory,
- derisive,
- derisory,
- derogative,
- derogatory,
- detractory,
- discriminating,
- discriminative,
- disparaging,
- exacting,
- execrating,
- execrative,
- execratory,
- fastidious,
- faultfinding,
- hidebound,
- hypercritical,
- invective,
- inveighing,
- judgmental,
- libelous,
- meticulous,
- mid-Victorian,
- minimizing,
- narrow,
- objurgatory,
- old-maidish,
- overcritical,
- overmodest,
- particular,
- pejorative,
- perfectionistic,
- picky,
- precise,
- precisianistic,
- priggish,
- prim,
- proscriptive,
- prudish,
- punctilious,
- puristic,
- puritanic,
- puritanical,
- reproachful,
- reprobative,
- reviling,
- ridiculing,
- sanctimonious,
- scandalous,
- scoffing,
- scrupulous,
- scurrile,
- scurrilous,
- selective,
- sensitive,
- slanderous,
- slighting,
- smug,
- stiff-necked,
- straitlaced,
- strict,
- stuffy,
- vilifying,
- vituperative
- abuse,
- affront,
- airs,
- animadversion,
- arrogance,
- aspersion,
- assailing,
- assault,
- assurance,
- atrocity,
- attack,
- audacity,
- berating,
- billingsgate,
- bitter words,
- blackening,
- boldness,
- brickbat,
- bumptiousness,
- calumny,
- clannishness,
- cliquishness,
- contempt,
- contemptuousness,
- cut,
- despite,
- diatribe,
- disdain,
- disdainfulness,
- disparagement,
- dump,
- effrontery,
- enormity,
- exclusiveness,
- execration,
- flout,
- flouting,
- gibe,
- hard words,
- hardihood,
- hauteur,
- hubris,
- humiliation,
- indignity,
- injury,
- insolence,
- insult,
- invective,
- jawing,
- jeer,
- jeering,
- jeremiad,
- mock,
- mockery,
- obloquy,
- obtrusiveness,
- offense,
- onslaught,
- opprobrium,
- outrage,
- overweening,
- overweeningness,
- philippic,
- presumption,
- presumptuousness,
- procacity,
- pushiness,
- put-down,
- rating,
- reflection,
- revilement,
- ridicule,
- scoff,
- scorn,
- scornfulness,
- screed,
- scurrility,
- slap,
- sniffiness,
- snobbishness,
- snootiness,
- snottiness,
- sovereign contempt,
- stricture,
- superciliousness,
- taunt,
- tirade,
- tongue-lashing,
- toploftiness,
- uncomplimentary remark,
- uppishness,
- uppityness,
- vilification,
- vituperation
- priggish
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- exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts" related words >
- Quakerish,
- Victorian,
- abusive,
- blackening,
- blameful,
- censorious,
- choicy,
- choosy,
- condemnatory,
- condescending,
- conformist,
- conscientious,
- contemptuous,
- critical,
- damnatory,
- demure,
- denunciatory,
- deprecative,
- deprecatory,
- depreciative,
- derisive,
- discriminating,
- discriminative,
- disparaging,
- exacting,
- execrating,
- execrative,
- execratory,
- fastidious,
- formal,
- formalistic,
- fussy,
- goody-goody,
- hidebound,
- high-hat,
- invective,
- inveighing,
- judgmental,
- meticulous,
- mid-Victorian,
- narrow,
- nit-picking,
- objurgatory,
- old-maidish,
- overmodest,
- particular,
- patronizing,
- pedantic,
- perfectionistic,
- picky,
- precious,
- precise,
- precisianistic,
- prig,
- prim,
- prissy,
- prudish,
- punctilious,
- purist,
- puristic,
- puritanic,
- puritanical,
- reproachful,
- reprobative,
- reviling,
- ridiculing,
- sanctimonious,
- scoffing,
- scrupulous,
- selective,
- self-complacent,
- self-contented,
- self-esteeming,
- self-loving,
- self-righteous,
- self-satisfied,
- sensitive,
- severe,
- smug,
- sniffy,
- snippy,
- snobbish,
- snobby,
- snooty,
- snotty,
- stick-in-the-mud,
- stiff-necked,
- strait-laced,
- straitlaced,
- strict,
- stuffy,
- uptight,
- vilifying,
- vituperative
- Fescennine,
- Rabelaisian,
- abusive,
- atrocious,
- back-biting,
- backhand,
- backhanded,
- bawdy,
- belittling,
- bitchy,
- blasphemous,
- blue,
- calumniatory,
- calumnious,
- catty,
- censorious,
- coarse,
- comminatory,
- contemptuous,
- contumelious,
- cursing,
- damnatory,
- defamatory,
- degrading,
- denunciatory,
- deprecatory,
- depreciative,
- depreciatory,
- derisive,
- derisory,
- derogative,
- derogatory,
- detractory,
- dirty,
- disparaging,
- dysphemistic,
- epithetic,
- excommunicative,
- excommunicatory,
- foul,
- foul-mouthed,
- foul-spoken,
- foul-tongued,
- fulminatory,
- fulsome,
- gross,
- humiliating,
- imprecatory,
- impure,
- indecent,
- insolent,
- insulting,
- invective,
- ithyphallic,
- left-handed,
- lewd,
- libelous,
- licentious,
- low,
- lurid,
- maledictory,
- malign,
- minimizing,
- nasty,
- obscene,
- offending,
- offensive,
- opprobrious,
- outrageous,
- pejorative,
- pornographic,
- profane,
- raunchy,
- raw,
- ribald,
- ridiculing,
- risque,
- salacious,
- scabrous,
- scandalous,
- scatologic,
- scurrile,
- slanderous,
- slighting,
- smoking-room,
- smutty,
- sultry,
- truculent,
- unchaste,
- unclean,
- unprintable,
- unrepeatable,
- unspeakable,
- vile,
- vilifying,
- vituperative,
- vulgar
- contumelious
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- arrogantly insolent related words >
- Rabelaisian,
- abusive,
- arrogant,
- atrocious,
- audacious,
- back-biting,
- backhand,
- backhanded,
- belittling,
- bitchy,
- blasphemous,
- bold,
- brazen,
- bumptious,
- calumniatory,
- calumnious,
- catty,
- cavalier,
- censorious,
- clannish,
- cliquish,
- cold,
- comminatory,
- contemptuous,
- cool,
- critical,
- cursing,
- damnatory,
- defamatory,
- degrading,
- denunciatory,
- deprecatory,
- depreciative,
- depreciatory,
- derisive,
- derisory,
- derogative,
- derogatory,
- detractory,
- dirty,
- disdainful,
- dismissive,
- disparaging,
- dysphemistic,
- epithetic,
- exclusive,
- excommunicative,
- excommunicatory,
- execratory,
- familiar,
- forward,
- foul,
- fulminatory,
- haughty,
- hubristic,
- humiliating,
- impertinent,
- imprecatory,
- impudent,
- insolent,
- insulting,
- invective,
- left-handed,
- libelous,
- maledictory,
- minimizing,
- obscene,
- obtrusive,
- offensive,
- opprobrious,
- outrageous,
- overpresumptuous,
- overweening,
- pejorative,
- presuming,
- presumptuous,
- procacious,
- profane,
- pushy,
- railing,
- raw,
- ribald,
- ridiculing,
- risque,
- saucy,
- scandalous,
- scatologic,
- scolding,
- scornful,
- scurrile,
- scurrilous,
- severe,
- slanderous,
- slighting,
- sneering,
- sniffy,
- snobbish,
- snobby,
- snooty,
- snotty,
- supercilious,
- toploftical,
- toplofty,
- truculent,
- unspeakable,
- uppish,
- uppity,
- vile,
- vilifying,
- vituperative,
- withering
- contemptuous
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- expressing extreme contempt related words >
- abjuratory,
- abusive,
- arrogant,
- audacious,
- back-biting,
- belittling,
- biggety,
- bitchy,
- blackening,
- blameful,
- bluff,
- bold,
- brash,
- brassy,
- brazen,
- bumptious,
- calumniatory,
- calumnious,
- catty,
- cavalier,
- censorious,
- challenging,
- cheeky,
- chutzpadik,
- clannish,
- cliquish,
- cocky,
- condemnatory,
- contumelious,
- crusty,
- damnatory,
- daring,
- declinatory,
- defamatory,
- defiant,
- defying,
- denunciatory,
- deprecative,
- deprecatory,
- depreciative,
- depreciatory,
- derisive,
- derisory,
- derogative,
- derogatory,
- despising,
- detractory,
- disdainful,
- dismissive,
- disparaging,
- disregardful,
- disrespectful,
- exclusive,
- execrating,
- execrative,
- execratory,
- facy,
- flip,
- flippant,
- fresh,
- gally,
- gratuitous,
- greatly daring,
- haughty,
- impertinent,
- impudent,
- insolent,
- insulting,
- invective,
- inveighing,
- judgmental,
- libelous,
- malapert,
- minimizing,
- nervy,
- objurgatory,
- pejorative,
- pert,
- priggish,
- regardless of consequences,
- rejective,
- renunciative,
- reproachful,
- reprobative,
- reviling,
- ridiculing,
- rude,
- sassy,
- saucy,
- scandalous,
- scoffing,
- scornful,
- scurrile,
- scurrilous,
- slanderous,
- slighting,
- smart,
- smart-alecky,
- smart-ass,
- sneering,
- sniffy,
- snobbish,
- snobby,
- snooty,
- snotty,
- supercilious,
- toploftical,
- toplofty,
- uncalled-for,
- vilifying,
- vituperative,
- wise-ass,
- withering
- harangue
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- a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion
- deliver a harangue to; address forcefully related words >
- address,
- after-dinner speech,
- allocution,
- assignment,
- chalk talk,
- debate,
- declaim,
- declamation,
- demagogue,
- diatribe,
- discourse,
- disquisition,
- elocute,
- eulogy,
- exercise,
- exhortation,
- explain,
- exposit,
- exposition,
- expound,
- filibuster,
- forensic,
- forensic address,
- formal speech,
- funeral oration,
- hold forth,
- homework,
- homily,
- hortatory address,
- inaugural,
- inaugural address,
- instruction,
- invective,
- jeremiad,
- lecture,
- lecture-demonstration,
- lesson,
- moral,
- moral lesson,
- morality,
- moralization,
- moralize,
- mouth,
- object lesson,
- orate,
- oration,
- out-herod Herod,
- pep talk,
- perorate,
- peroration,
- philippic,
- pitch,
- point a moral,
- pontificate,
- preach,
- preachment,
- prepared speech,
- prepared text,
- public speech,
- rabble-rouse,
- rant,
- rant and rave,
- rave,
- read,
- read a lesson,
- reading,
- recital,
- recitation,
- recite,
- rodomontade,
- sales talk,
- salutatory,
- salutatory address,
- say,
- screed,
- sermon,
- sermonize,
- set speech,
- set task,
- skull session,
- soapbox,
- speech,
- speechification,
- speeching,
- spiel,
- spout,
- talk,
- talkathon,
- task,
- teaching,
- tirade,
- tub-thump,
- valediction,
- valedictory,
- valedictory address,
- vituperate,
- vituperation
- accusal,
- accusation,
- accusing,
- allegation,
- allegement,
- allegory,
- allusion,
- animadversion,
- arcane meaning,
- arraignment,
- aspersion,
- assumption,
- bill of particulars,
- blame,
- bringing of charges,
- bringing to book,
- broad hint,
- causticity,
- charge,
- clue,
- coloration,
- complaint,
- connotation,
- count,
- cue,
- cynicism,
- delation,
- denouncement,
- denunciation,
- gentle hint,
- gesture,
- glimmer,
- glimmering,
- hint,
- impeachment,
- implication,
- implied meaning,
- import,
- imputation,
- index,
- indication,
- indictment,
- indirect,
- inference,
- information,
- inkling,
- insinuation,
- intimation,
- invective,
- ironic suggestion,
- irony,
- kick,
- lawsuit,
- laying of charges,
- look,
- meaning,
- metaphorical sense,
- nod,
- nuance,
- nudge,
- occult meaning,
- overtone,
- personal remark,
- personality,
- plaint,
- presumption,
- presupposition,
- prompt,
- prosecution,
- reference,
- reflection,
- reproach,
- sarcasm,
- satire,
- satiric wit,
- scent,
- sign,
- signal,
- slur,
- sly suggestion,
- spoor,
- subsense,
- subsidiary sense,
- suggestion,
- suit,
- supposition,
- suspicion,
- symbolism,
- symptom,
- taxing,
- telltale,
- tinge,
- touch,
- track,
- true bill,
- uncomplimentary remark,
- undercurrent,
- undermeaning,
- undertone,
- unspoken accusation,
- veiled accusation,
- whisper,
- whispering campaign,
- wink
- insult
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- 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
- 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
- onslaught
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- a sudden and severe onset of trouble related words >
- abuse,
- aggravated assault,
- aggression,
- amphibious attack,
- appulse,
- armed assault,
- assailing,
- assailment,
- assault,
- attack,
- banzai attack,
- battering,
- berating,
- bitter words,
- blackening,
- blitz,
- blitzkrieg,
- breakthrough,
- brunt,
- bulldozing,
- bulling,
- bump,
- butchery,
- cannon,
- carambole,
- carom,
- charge,
- clash,
- collision,
- concussion,
- contumely,
- counterattack,
- counteroffensive,
- coup de main,
- crack-up,
- crash,
- crippling attack,
- crump,
- crunch,
- dead set at,
- descent on,
- diatribe,
- disorderliness,
- diversion,
- diversionary attack,
- drive,
- encounter,
- execration,
- flank attack,
- forcible seizure,
- frontal attack,
- gas attack,
- hammering,
- hard words,
- head-on attack,
- impact,
- impingement,
- infiltration,
- invective,
- jawing,
- jeremiad,
- killing,
- laying waste,
- lightning attack,
- lightning war,
- looting,
- mass attack,
- massacre,
- mauling,
- meeting,
- megadeath,
- mugging,
- obstreperousness,
- offense,
- offensive,
- onset,
- overkill,
- panzer warfare,
- percussion,
- philippic,
- pillaging,
- push,
- ramming,
- rape,
- rating,
- revilement,
- riot,
- rioting,
- run against,
- run at,
- rush,
- sacking,
- sally,
- screed,
- shock,
- shock tactics,
- sideswipe,
- slaughter,
- sledgehammering,
- smash,
- smash-up,
- smashing,
- sortie,
- sowing with salt,
- strike,
- thrusting,
- tirade,
- tongue-lashing,
- unprovoked assault,
- unruliness,
- vilification,
- violation,
- vituperation,
- whomp
- filibuster
collapse
- a tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
- a legislator who gives long speeches in an effort to delay or obstruct legislation that he (or she) opposes
- obstruct deliberately by delaying; of legislation related words >
- address,
- after-dinner speech,
- allocution,
- be dilatory,
- chalk talk,
- cloture,
- committee consideration,
- constitute,
- debate,
- declamation,
- decree,
- deliberation,
- diatribe,
- division,
- enact,
- enact laws,
- eulogy,
- exhortation,
- filibusterer,
- filibustering,
- filing,
- first reading,
- forensic,
- forensic address,
- formal speech,
- frustrater,
- funeral oration,
- gain time,
- get the floor,
- hang,
- hang back,
- hang fire,
- harangue,
- have the floor,
- hesitate,
- hinderer,
- hold off,
- hortatory address,
- impeder,
- inaugural,
- inaugural address,
- introduction,
- invective,
- jeremiad,
- kill,
- legislate,
- lobby through,
- logroll,
- logrolling,
- make time,
- marplot,
- negativist,
- obstructer,
- obstructionist,
- oration,
- ordain,
- outlast,
- outspeak,
- outtalk,
- pass,
- pep talk,
- peroration,
- philippic,
- pigeonhole,
- pitch,
- play for time,
- pocket,
- prepared speech,
- prepared text,
- procrastinate,
- public speech,
- put in force,
- put through,
- railroad through,
- reading,
- recital,
- recitation,
- roll call,
- roll logs,
- sales talk,
- salutatory,
- salutatory address,
- say,
- screed,
- second reading,
- set speech,
- speech,
- speechification,
- speeching,
- stall,
- stall for time,
- stall off,
- steamroller methods,
- stooge around,
- table,
- tabling,
- take the floor,
- talk,
- talk against time,
- talk down,
- talkathon,
- temporize,
- third reading,
- thwarter,
- tirade,
- valediction,
- valedictory,
- valedictory address,
- veto,
- vote,
- yield the floor
- exhortation
collapse
- a communication intended to urge or persuade the recipients to take some action
- the act of exhorting; an earnest attempt at persuasion related words >
- address,
- admonition,
- advice,
- advising,
- advocacy,
- after-dinner speech,
- allocution,
- allurement,
- blandishment,
- briefing,
- bugle call,
- cajolement,
- cajolery,
- call to arms,
- call-up,
- catchword,
- caution,
- caveat,
- chalk talk,
- clarion,
- clarion call,
- coaxing,
- conning,
- conscription,
- consultation,
- council,
- counsel,
- debate,
- declamation,
- diatribe,
- direction,
- engagement,
- enlistment,
- eulogy,
- expostulation,
- filibuster,
- forensic,
- forensic address,
- formal speech,
- funeral oration,
- go for broke,
- guidance,
- gung ho,
- harangue,
- hortation,
- hortatory address,
- idea,
- inaugural,
- inaugural address,
- inducement,
- instruction,
- invective,
- jawboning,
- jeremiad,
- levy,
- lobbying,
- mobilization,
- monition,
- muster,
- opinion,
- oration,
- parley,
- pep talk,
- peroration,
- persuasion,
- philippic,
- pitch,
- preaching,
- preachment,
- prepared speech,
- prepared text,
- proposal,
- public speech,
- rally,
- rallying cry,
- reading,
- rebel yell,
- recital,
- recitation,
- recommendation,
- recruitment,
- remonstrance,
- sales talk,
- salesmanship,
- salutatory,
- salutatory address,
- say,
- screed,
- selling,
- set speech,
- slogan,
- snow job,
- soft soap,
- solicitation,
- speech,
- speechification,
- speeching,
- suasion,
- suggestion,
- sweet talk,
- talk,
- talkathon,
- thought,
- tirade,
- trumpet call,
- valediction,
- valedictory,
- valedictory address,
- war cry,
- war whoop,
- warning,
- watchword,
- wheedling,
- working on
- truculent
collapse
- defiantly aggressive; "a truculent speech against the new government" related words >
- Draconian,
- Tartarean,
- abrupt,
- aggressive,
- animal,
- antagonistic,
- anthropophagous,
- atrocious,
- bad-tempered,
- barbaric,
- barbarous,
- battling,
- bearish,
- beastly,
- bellicose,
- belligerent,
- bestial,
- bloodthirsty,
- bloody,
- bloody-minded,
- bluff,
- blunt,
- brash,
- browbeating,
- brusque,
- brutal,
- brutalized,
- brute,
- brutish,
- bullying,
- cannibalistic,
- cavalier,
- chauvinist,
- chauvinistic,
- churlish,
- combative,
- contentious,
- contumelious,
- cowing,
- cruel,
- cruel-hearted,
- crusty,
- curt,
- demoniac,
- demoniacal,
- devilish,
- diabolic,
- enemy,
- fell,
- feral,
- ferocious,
- fiendish,
- fiendlike,
- fierce,
- fighting,
- frightening,
- full of fight,
- grim,
- gruff,
- harsh,
- hawkish,
- hellish,
- hostile,
- ill-tempered,
- infernal,
- inhuman,
- inhumane,
- inimical,
- intimidating,
- invective,
- jingo,
- jingoish,
- jingoist,
- jingoistic,
- martial,
- militant,
- militaristic,
- military,
- murderous,
- nasty,
- obstreperous,
- offensive,
- opprobrious,
- pugnacious,
- quarrelsome,
- rough,
- rude,
- ruthless,
- saber-rattling,
- sadistic,
- sanguinary,
- sanguineous,
- satanic,
- savage,
- scathing,
- scrappy,
- scurrile,
- scurrilous,
- severe,
- sharkish,
- sharp,
- short,
- slavering,
- snippy,
- soldierlike,
- soldierly,
- subhuman,
- sullen,
- surly,
- terrifying,
- terrorizing,
- trigger-happy,
- unchristian,
- uncivilized,
- unfriendly,
- unhuman,
- unpacific,
- unpeaceable,
- unpeaceful,
- unpleasant,
- vicious,
- violent,
- virulent,
- vituperative,
- warlike,
- warmongering,
- warring,
- wolfish
- eulogy
collapse
- a formal expression of praise for someone who has died recently related words >
- acclaim,
- acclamation,
- accolade,
- address,
- adulation,
- after-dinner speech,
- allocution,
- apotheosis,
- applause,
- bepraisement,
- burial service,
- chalk talk,
- citation,
- commendation,
- compliment,
- congratulation,
- coronach,
- dead march,
- death knell,
- death song,
- deathwatch,
- debate,
- declamation,
- deification,
- diatribe,
- dirge,
- elegy,
- eloge,
- encomium,
- epicedium,
- eulogium,
- exaltation,
- excessive praise,
- exequies,
- exhortation,
- extreme unction,
- filibuster,
- flattery,
- forensic,
- forensic address,
- formal speech,
- funeral march,
- funeral oration,
- funeral rites,
- funeral song,
- glorification,
- glory,
- graveside oration,
- harangue,
- hero worship,
- homage,
- hommage,
- honor,
- honorable mention,
- hortatory address,
- idolatry,
- idolizing,
- inaugural,
- inaugural address,
- invective,
- jeremiad,
- keen,
- knell,
- kudos,
- last duty,
- last honors,
- last offices,
- last rites,
- laud,
- laudation,
- lionizing,
- magnification,
- meed of praise,
- mention,
- monody,
- muffled drums,
- obsequies,
- oration,
- overpraise,
- paean,
- panegyric,
- passing bell,
- pep talk,
- peroration,
- philippic,
- pitch,
- plaudits,
- praise,
- prepared speech,
- prepared text,
- public speech,
- reading,
- recital,
- recitation,
- requiem,
- requiem mass,
- sales talk,
- salutation,
- salutatory,
- salutatory address,
- say,
- screed,
- set speech,
- speech,
- speechification,
- speeching,
- talk,
- talkathon,
- threnode,
- threnody,
- tirade,
- tribute,
- valediction,
- valedictory,
- valedictory address,
- viaticum,
- wake
- tirade
collapse
- a speech of violent denunciation related words >
- abundance,
- abuse,
- address,
- after-dinner speech,
- allocution,
- amplitude,
- assailing,
- assault,
- attack,
- bawl,
- berating,
- bitter words,
- blackening,
- censure,
- chalk talk,
- cloud of words,
- condemnation,
- contumely,
- copiousness,
- cry,
- debate,
- declamation,
- denunciation,
- diatribe,
- diffuseness,
- diffusion,
- diffusiveness,
- dolorous tirade,
- effusion,
- effusiveness,
- eulogy,
- execration,
- exhortation,
- extravagance,
- exuberance,
- fecundity,
- fertility,
- filibuster,
- fluency,
- forensic,
- forensic address,
- formal speech,
- formlessness,
- funeral oration,
- groan,
- gush,
- gushing,
- harangue,
- hard words,
- hortatory address,
- howl,
- inaugural,
- inaugural address,
- invective,
- jawing,
- jeremiad,
- keen,
- lament,
- lecture,
- logorrhea,
- macrology,
- moan,
- murmur,
- mutter,
- onslaught,
- oration,
- outburst,
- outcry,
- outpour,
- overflow,
- palilogy,
- pep talk,
- peroration,
- philippic,
- pitch,
- plaint,
- planctus,
- pleonasm,
- prepared speech,
- prepared text,
- prodigality,
- productivity,
- profuseness,
- profusion,
- prolificacy,
- prolificity,
- public speech,
- rampancy,
- rankness,
- rant,
- rating,
- reading,
- recital,
- recitation,
- redundancy,
- reiteration,
- reiterativeness,
- repetition for effect,
- repetitiveness,
- revilement,
- rodomontade,
- sales talk,
- salutatory,
- salutatory address,
- say,
- scream,
- screed,
- sermon,
- set speech,
- sob,
- speech,
- speechification,
- speeching,
- superabundance,
- superfluity,
- superflux,
- talk,
- talkathon,
- talkativeness,
- tautology,
- teemingness,
- tongue-lashing,
- ululation,
- valediction,
- valedictory,
- valedictory address,
- vilification,
- vituperation,
- wail,
- wail of woe,
- whimper,
- whine,
- yawp,
- yowl
- recital
collapse
- performance of music or dance especially by soloists
- a detailed account or description of something; "he was forced to listen to a recital of his many shortcomings"
- a detailed statement giving facts and figures; "his wife gave a recital of his infidelities" related words >
- Philharmonic concert,
- account,
- address,
- after-dinner speech,
- allocution,
- assignment,
- band concert,
- chalk talk,
- chamber concert,
- concert,
- copy,
- critique,
- debate,
- declamation,
- description,
- diatribe,
- discourse,
- disquisition,
- dwelling upon,
- elaboration,
- entertainment,
- enumeration,
- eulogy,
- exercise,
- exhortation,
- exposition,
- filibuster,
- forensic,
- forensic address,
- formal speech,
- funeral oration,
- going over,
- harangue,
- homework,
- homily,
- hortatory address,
- inaugural,
- inaugural address,
- instruction,
- interpretation,
- invective,
- iteration,
- jeremiad,
- lecture,
- lecture-demonstration,
- lesson,
- moral,
- moral lesson,
- morality,
- moralization,
- musical performance,
- musical program,
- musicale,
- narration,
- narrative,
- object lesson,
- oration,
- pep talk,
- performance,
- peroration,
- philharmonic,
- philippic,
- pitch,
- pop concert,
- pops,
- popular concert,
- practicing,
- preachment,
- prepared speech,
- prepared text,
- presentation,
- program,
- program of music,
- prom,
- promenade concert,
- public speech,
- reading,
- reaffirmation,
- recap,
- recapitulation,
- recitation,
- recountal,
- recounting,
- rehash,
- rehearsal,
- reissue,
- reiteration,
- relation,
- rendition,
- repetition,
- report,
- reprint,
- restatement,
- resume,
- retelling,
- review,
- sales talk,
- salutatory,
- salutatory address,
- say,
- screed,
- sermon,
- service of music,
- set speech,
- set task,
- show,
- skull session,
- speech,
- speechification,
- speeching,
- story,
- summary,
- summing up,
- symphony concert,
- tale-telling,
- talk,
- talkathon,
- task,
- teaching,
- telling,
- tirade,
- valediction,
- valedictory,
- valedictory address,
- version,
- yarn spinning
- peroration
collapse
- (rhetoric) the concluding section of an oration; "he summarized his main points in his peroration"
- a flowery and highly rhetorical oration related words >
- PS,
- Parthian shot,
- Z,
- addendum,
- address,
- after-dinner speech,
- afterthought,
- allocution,
- apodosis,
- appendix,
- back matter,
- catastrophe,
- ceasing,
- cessation,
- chalk talk,
- chorus,
- coda,
- codicil,
- colophon,
- conclusion,
- consequence,
- consummation,
- continuance,
- continuation,
- crack of doom,
- culmination,
- curtain,
- curtains,
- death,
- debate,
- decease,
- declamation,
- denouement,
- destination,
- destiny,
- diatribe,
- doom,
- double take,
- dying words,
- effect,
- end,
- end point,
- ending,
- envoi,
- epilogue,
- eschatology,
- eulogy,
- exhortation,
- expiration,
- fate,
- filibuster,
- final solution,
- final twitch,
- final words,
- finale,
- finality,
- finis,
- finish,
- follow-through,
- follow-up,
- forensic,
- forensic address,
- formal speech,
- funeral oration,
- goal,
- harangue,
- hortatory address,
- inaugural,
- inaugural address,
- invective,
- izzard,
- jeremiad,
- last,
- last breath,
- last gasp,
- last things,
- last trumpet,
- last words,
- latter end,
- omega,
- oration,
- parting shot,
- payoff,
- pep talk,
- period,
- philippic,
- pitch,
- postface,
- postfix,
- postlude,
- postscript,
- prepared speech,
- prepared text,
- public speech,
- quietus,
- reading,
- recital,
- recitation,
- refrain,
- resolution,
- resting place,
- sales talk,
- salutatory,
- salutatory address,
- say,
- screed,
- second thought,
- sequel,
- sequela,
- sequelae,
- sequelant,
- sequent,
- sequitur,
- set speech,
- speech,
- speechification,
- speeching,
- stoppage,
- stopping place,
- subscript,
- suffix,
- supplement,
- swan song,
- tag,
- talk,
- talkathon,
- term,
- terminal,
- termination,
- terminus,
- tirade,
- valediction,
- valedictory,
- valedictory address,
- windup
- aspersion
collapse
- the act of sprinkling water in baptism (rare)
- an abusive attack on a person's character or good name
- a disparaging remark; "in the 19th century any reference to female sexuality was considered a vile aspersion"; "it is difficult for a woman to understand a man's sensitivity to any slur on his virility" related words >
- abuse,
- adverse criticism,
- affront,
- affusion,
- agape,
- allegation,
- animadversion,
- aspergation,
- asperges,
- atrocity,
- auricular confession,
- backbiting,
- bad notices,
- bad press,
- baptism,
- baptismal gown,
- baptismal regeneration,
- baptistery,
- baptizement,
- bar mitzvah,
- bas mitzvah,
- brickbat,
- calumny,
- captiousness,
- carping,
- cavil,
- caviling,
- celebration,
- censoriousness,
- chrismal,
- christening,
- circumcision,
- confession,
- confirmation,
- contempt,
- contumely,
- criticism,
- cut,
- defamation,
- despite,
- detraction,
- disparagement,
- dump,
- enormity,
- exception,
- faultfinding,
- flak,
- flout,
- flouting,
- font,
- gibe,
- hairsplitting,
- high celebration,
- hit,
- home thrust,
- hostile criticism,
- humiliation,
- hypercriticalness,
- hypercriticism,
- immersion,
- imputation,
- incense,
- indignity,
- infusion,
- injury,
- innuendo,
- insinuation,
- insult,
- invective,
- invocation,
- invocation of saints,
- jeer,
- jeering,
- kiss of peace,
- knock,
- lampoon,
- lesser litany,
- libel,
- litany,
- love feast,
- lustration,
- mock,
- mockery,
- muck,
- nagging,
- niggle,
- niggling,
- nit,
- nit-picking,
- obloquy,
- offense,
- outrage,
- overcriticalness,
- pasquinade,
- pax,
- personal remark,
- personality,
- pestering,
- pettifogging,
- priggishness,
- processional,
- put-down,
- quibble,
- quibbling,
- rap,
- reciting the rosary,
- reflection,
- reproachfulness,
- scandal,
- scoff,
- scurrility,
- skit,
- slam,
- slander,
- slur,
- sly suggestion,
- sprinkling,
- squib,
- stricture,
- suggestion,
- swipe,
- taking exception,
- taunt,
- telling of beads,
- the confessional,
- the confessionary,
- total immersion,
- trichoschistism,
- uncomplimentary remark,
- vituperation,
- whispering campaign
- inaugural
collapse
- serving to set in motion; "the magazine's inaugural issue"; "the initiative phase in the negotiations"; "an initiatory step toward a treaty"; "his first (or maiden) speech in Congress"; "the liner's maiden voyage"
- occurring at or characteristic of a formal investiture or induction; "the President's inaugural address"; "an inaugural ball" related words >
- abecedarian,
- aboriginal,
- address,
- advanced,
- after-dinner speech,
- allocution,
- antecedent,
- antenatal,
- anterior,
- autochthonous,
- avant-garde,
- baccalaureate service,
- beginning,
- budding,
- celebration,
- ceremonial,
- ceremony,
- chalk talk,
- chief,
- commencement,
- convocation,
- creative,
- debate,
- declamation,
- diatribe,
- elemental,
- elementary,
- embryonic,
- empty formality,
- eulogy,
- exercise,
- exercises,
- exhortation,
- exordial,
- exploratory,
- fetal,
- filibuster,
- first,
- foremost,
- forensic,
- forensic address,
- formal,
- formal speech,
- formality,
- formative,
- foundational,
- function,
- fundamental,
- funeral oration,
- gestatory,
- graduation,
- graduation exercises,
- harangue,
- headmost,
- hortatory address,
- in embryo,
- in its infancy,
- in the bud,
- inaugural address,
- inauguration,
- inceptive,
- inchoate,
- inchoative,
- incipient,
- incunabular,
- induction,
- infant,
- infantile,
- initial,
- initiation,
- initiative,
- initiatory,
- installation,
- introductory,
- invective,
- inventive,
- investiture,
- jeremiad,
- leading,
- liturgy,
- mummery,
- nascent,
- natal,
- observance,
- office,
- oration,
- original,
- parturient,
- pep talk,
- performance,
- peroration,
- philippic,
- pitch,
- postnatal,
- precedent,
- preceding,
- precessional,
- precursory,
- prefatory,
- pregnant,
- preliminary,
- preludial,
- prelusive,
- prenatal,
- preparatory,
- prepared speech,
- prepared text,
- prevenient,
- primal,
- primary,
- prime,
- primeval,
- primitive,
- primogenial,
- prior,
- procreative,
- proemial,
- propaedeutic,
- public speech,
- reading,
- recital,
- recitation,
- religious ceremony,
- rite,
- rite de passage,
- rite of passage,
- ritual,
- rudimental,
- rudimentary,
- sales talk,
- salutatory,
- salutatory address,
- say,
- screed,
- service,
- set speech,
- solemnity,
- solemnization,
- speech,
- speechification,
- speeching,
- talk,
- talkathon,
- tirade,
- ur,
- valediction,
- valedictory,
- valedictory address
- obscenity
collapse
- an obscene act
- the trait of behaving in an obscene manner
- an offensive or indecent word or phrase related words >
- Rabelaisianism,
- X-rated movie,
- abominability,
- animality,
- bad language,
- baseness,
- bawdiness,
- bawdry,
- beastliness,
- billingsgate,
- blue language,
- blue movie,
- carnality,
- clitoromania,
- coarseness,
- colorful language,
- concupiscence,
- contemptibility,
- contrariety,
- crassness,
- crudeness,
- crudity,
- curse,
- cursing,
- cuss,
- cuss word,
- cussing,
- despicability,
- despicableness,
- dirt,
- dirtiness,
- dirty language,
- dirty movie,
- dirty name,
- dirty talk,
- dirty word,
- disgustingness,
- dysphemism,
- earthiness,
- epithet,
- erotic art,
- erotic literature,
- eroticism,
- eroticomania,
- erotographomania,
- erotomania,
- evil speaking,
- expletive,
- fescenninity,
- filth,
- filthiness,
- filthy language,
- fleshliness,
- foul invective,
- foul language,
- foulness,
- fulsomeness,
- furor uterinus,
- gaudiness,
- goatishness,
- grossness,
- gynecomania,
- harshness,
- hatefulness,
- heinousness,
- horniness,
- hysteromania,
- iconolagny,
- ignobility,
- lasciviousness,
- lecherousness,
- lechery,
- lewdness,
- libidinousness,
- lickerishness,
- loathsomeness,
- loudness,
- lubriciousness,
- lubricity,
- lust,
- lustfulness,
- meretriciousness,
- nastiness,
- naughty word,
- nauseousness,
- no-no,
- noisomeness,
- noxiousness,
- nymphomania,
- oath,
- objectionability,
- objectionableness,
- obnoxiousness,
- odiousness,
- offensiveness,
- pornographic art,
- pornographic literature,
- pornographomania,
- pornography,
- profane oath,
- profane swearing,
- profanity,
- prurience,
- pruriency,
- putridity,
- putridness,
- randiness,
- rawness,
- rebarbativeness,
- repellence,
- repellency,
- repugnance,
- repulsiveness,
- ribaldry,
- rottenness,
- roughness,
- rudeness,
- salaciousness,
- salacity,
- satyriasis,
- satyrism,
- scatology,
- scurrility,
- sensuality,
- sexiness,
- sexploitation,
- sexuality,
- skin flick,
- smut,
- smuttiness,
- soft-core pornography,
- stag film,
- strong language,
- swearing,
- swearword,
- unparliamentary language,
- unrepeatable expressions,
- unspeakableness,
- uteromania,
- vile language,
- vileness,
- vulgar language
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