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maligning
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maligning
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Related Words:
backbiting
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related words >
abuse
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animadversion
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backstabbing
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belittlement
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calumnious
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calumny
,
defamation
,
defamatory
,
depreciation
,
detracting
,
disparagement
,
invective
,
maligning
,
obloquy
,
reflection
,
scandal
,
scandalous
,
slander
,
slanderous
,
stricture
,
tale
,
vilifying
,
vituperation
detraction
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the act of discrediting or detracting from someone's reputation (especially by slander); "let it be no detraction from his merits to say he is plainspoken"
a petty disparagement
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aspersion
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backbiting
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backstabbing
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belittlement
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calumniation
,
calumny
,
character assassination
,
damage
,
defamation
,
depreciation
,
disparagement
,
harm
,
hurt
,
injury
,
injustice
,
libel
,
libeling
,
maligning
,
scandal
,
slander
,
sycophancy
,
tale
,
vilification
,
wrong
defamatory
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abusive
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back-biting
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backbiting
,
belittling
,
bitchy
,
calumniatory
,
calumnious
,
catty
,
censorious
,
contemptuous
,
contumelious
,
deprecatory
,
depreciative
,
depreciatory
,
derisive
,
derisory
,
derogative
,
derogatory
,
detracting
,
detractory
,
disparaging
,
libelous
,
maligning
,
minimizing
,
pejorative
,
ridiculing
,
scandalous
,
scurrile
,
scurrilous
,
slanderous
,
slighting
,
vilifying
libelous
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related words >
abusive
,
back-biting
,
backbiting
,
belittling
,
bitchy
,
calumniatory
,
calumnious
,
catty
,
censorious
,
contemptuous
,
contumelious
,
debasing
,
defamatory
,
deprecatory
,
depreciative
,
depreciatory
,
derisive
,
derisory
,
derogative
,
derogatory
,
detracting
,
detractory
,
disparaging
,
invidious
,
malevolent
,
maligning
,
minimizing
,
pejorative
,
ridiculing
,
scandalous
,
scurrile
,
scurrilous
,
slanderous
,
slighting
,
vilifying
,
vituperative
slanderous
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related words >
abusive
,
back-biting
,
backbiting
,
belittling
,
bitchy
,
calumniatory
,
calumnious
,
catty
,
censorious
,
contemptuous
,
contumelious
,
decrying
,
defamatory
,
deprecatory
,
depreciative
,
depreciatory
,
derisive
,
derisory
,
derogative
,
derogatory
,
detracting
,
detractory
,
discrediting
,
disparaging
,
libelous
,
maligning
,
minimizing
,
muckraking
,
pejorative
,
ridiculing
,
scandalous
,
scurrile
,
scurrilous
,
slighting
,
smear
,
vilifying
vilifying
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related words >
abusive
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back-biting
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backbiting
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belittling
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bitchy
,
blackening
,
blameful
,
calumniatory
,
calumnious
,
catty
,
censorious
,
condemnatory
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contemptuous
,
contumelious
,
damnatory
,
defamatory
,
denunciatory
,
deprecative
,
deprecatory
,
depreciative
,
depreciatory
,
derisive
,
derisory
,
derogative
,
derogatory
,
detracting
,
detractory
,
disparaging
,
execrating
,
execrative
,
execratory
,
invective
,
inveighing
,
judgmental
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libelous
,
maligning
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minimizing
,
objurgatory
,
pejorative
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priggish
,
reproachful
,
reprobative
,
reviling
,
ridiculing
,
scandalous
,
scoffing
,
scurrile
,
scurrilous
,
slanderous
,
slighting
,
vituperative
invidious
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abhorrent
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abominable
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baleful
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begrudging
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bitchy
,
bitter
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calumnious
,
covetous
,
cussed
,
defamatory
,
desirous of
,
detestable
,
detracting
,
detractory
,
distrustful
,
envious
,
envying
,
green
,
green with envy
,
green with jealousy
,
green-eyed
,
grudging
,
harmful
,
hateful
,
horn-mad
,
iniquitous
,
jaundice-eyed
,
jaundiced
,
jealous
,
malefic
,
maleficent
,
malicious
,
malign
,
malignant
,
maligning
,
mean
,
nasty
,
noxious
,
obnoxious
,
odious
,
ornery
,
repellent
,
revulsive
,
scandalous
,
slanderous
,
suspicious
,
vilifying
,
wicked
,
yellow
,
yellow-eyed
derogatory
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abasing
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abusive
,
back-biting
,
belittling
,
bitchy
,
calumniatory
,
calumnious
,
catty
,
censorious
,
contemptuous
,
contumelious
,
debasing
,
defamatory
,
deflating
,
degrading
,
demeaning
,
deprecatory
,
depreciating
,
depreciative
,
depreciatory
,
derisive
,
derisory
,
derogative
,
despiteful
,
detracting
,
detractory
,
diminishing
,
disadvantageous
,
discreditable
,
disdainful
,
dishonorable
,
disparaging
,
disreputable
,
humiliating
,
ignoble
,
ignominious
,
infamous
,
inglorious
,
insulting
,
libelous
,
lowering
,
malevolent
,
malicious
,
maligning
,
minimizing
,
mitigating
,
notorious
,
offensive
,
pejorative
,
ridiculing
,
scandalous
,
scurrile
,
scurrilous
,
seamy
,
shady
,
slanderous
,
slighting
,
sordid
,
spiteful
,
uncomplimentary
,
unpraiseworthy
,
unrespectable
,
unsavory
,
vilifying
abusive
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characterized by physical or psychological maltreatment; "abusive punishment"; "argued...that foster homes are abusive"
expressing offensive reproach
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Rabelaisian
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atrocious
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back-biting
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backhand
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backhanded
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belittling
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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
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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
scandalous
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aberrant
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abnormal
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abominable
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abusive
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arrant
,
atrocious
,
awful
,
back-biting
,
backbiting
,
bad
,
base
,
beastly
,
belittling
,
beneath contempt
,
beneath one
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bitchy
,
black
,
blamable
,
blameworthy
,
brutal
,
calumniatory
,
calumnious
,
catty
,
censorious
,
cheap
,
contemptible
,
contemptuous
,
contumelious
,
criminal
,
crying
,
damnable
,
dark
,
debasing
,
defamatory
,
degrading
,
delinquent
,
demeaning
,
deplorable
,
deprecatory
,
depreciative
,
depreciatory
,
derisive
,
derisory
,
derogative
,
derogatory
,
desperate
,
despicable
,
detestable
,
detracting
,
detractory
,
deviant
,
dire
,
disgraceful
,
disgusting
,
dishonorable
,
disparaging
,
disreputable
,
dreadful
,
egregious
,
enormous
,
evil
,
execrable
,
fetid
,
filthy
,
flagitious
,
flagrant
,
foul
,
fulsome
,
grievous
,
gross
,
gutter
,
hardly the thing
,
hateful
,
heinous
,
horrible
,
horrid
,
humiliating
,
humiliative
,
ignominious
,
illegal
,
immodest
,
immoral
,
improper
,
inappropriate
,
incorrect
,
indecent
,
indecorous
,
infamous
,
infra dig
,
infra indignitatem
,
iniquitous
,
injurious
,
knavish
,
lamentable
,
lascivious
,
lecherous
,
lewd
,
libelous
,
licentious
,
loathsome
,
lousy
,
low
,
lustful
,
maligning
,
minimizing
,
monstrous
,
nasty
,
naughty
,
nefarious
,
noisome
,
not done
,
not the thing
,
notorious
,
obnoxious
,
odious
,
off-base
,
off-color
,
offensive
,
opprobrious
,
out-of-line
,
outrageous
,
peccant
,
pejorative
,
pitiable
,
pitiful
,
profligate
,
rank
,
regrettable
,
reprehensible
,
reprobate
,
repulsive
,
ridiculing
,
rotten
,
sacrilegious
,
sad
,
schlock
,
scurrile
,
scurrilous
,
scurvy
,
shabby
,
shameful
,
shameless
,
shocking
,
shoddy
,
sinful
,
slanderous
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slighting
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sordid
,
sorry
,
squalid
,
taboo
,
terrible
,
too bad
,
unbecoming
,
unclean
,
undue
,
unfit
,
unfitting
,
unforgivable
,
unlawful
,
unmentionable
,
unpardonable
,
unrighteous
,
unseemly
,
unspeakable
,
unsuitable
,
unworthy
,
unworthy of one
,
vicious
,
vile
,
vilifying
,
villainous
,
wicked
,
woeful
,
worst
,
worthless
,
wretched
,
wrong
,
wrongful
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