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detraction collapse: 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

abroad collapse: in a foreign country; "markets abroad"; "overseas markets"; to or in a foreign country; "they had never travelled abroad"

threaten collapse: to utter intentions of injury or punishment against:"He threatened me when I tried to call the police"; to be a menacing indication of something:"The clouds threaten rain"; "Danger threatens"

afflict collapse: cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed; cause pain or suffering in; "afflict with the plague"; "That debasement of the verbal currency that afflicts terms used in advertisement"; cause great unhappiness for; distress; "she was afflicted by the death of her parents"

awry collapse: away from the correct or expected course; "something has gone awry in our plans"; "something went badly amiss in the preparations"

wander collapse: go via an indirect route or at no set pace; "After dinner, we wandered into town"

unmerited collapse: not merited or deserved; "received an unmerited honorary degree"; not merited; "unmerited treatment of a potentially fine subject"

inverted collapse: being in such a position that top and bottom are reversed; "a quotation mark is sometimes called an inverted comma"; "an upside-down cake"

undeserved collapse: not deserved or earned; "has an undeserved reputation as a coward"

mistake collapse: a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention; "he made a bad mistake"; "she was quick to point out my errors"; "I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults"; an understanding of something that is not correct; "he wasn't going to admit his mistake"; "make no mistake about his intentions"; "there must be some misunderstanding--I don't have a sister"; identify incorrectly; "Don't mistake her for her twin sister"

menace collapse: a threat or the act of threatening; "he spoke with desperate menace"; something that is a source of danger; "earthquakes are a constant threat in Japan"; act in a threatening manner; "A menacing person"; express a threat either by an utterance or a gesture; "he menaced the bank manager with a stick"

untruthful collapse: not expressing or given to expressing the truth; "the statement given under oath was untruthful"; "an untruthful person"

unacceptable collapse: not acceptable; not welcome; "a word unacceptable in polite society"; "an unacceptable violation of personal freedom"; not adequate to give satisfaction; "the coach told his players that defeat was unacceptable"; not conforming to standard usage; "the following use of `access' was judged unacceptable by a panel of linguists; `You can access your cash at any of 300 automatic tellers'"

torture collapse: the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason; "it required unnatural torturing to extract a confession"; unbearable physical pain; subject to torture; "The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible"

transgression collapse: the action of going beyond or overstepping some boundary or limit; the act of transgressing; the violation of a law or a duty or moral principle; "the boy was punished for the transgressions of his father"; the spreading of the sea over land as evidenced by the deposition of marine strata over terrestrial strata

errant collapse: uncontrolled motion that is irregular or unpredictable; "an errant breeze"; straying from the right course or from accepted standards; "errant youngsters"

askew collapse: turned or twisted toward one side; "a...youth with a gorgeous red necktie all awry"- G.K.Chesterton; "his wig was, as the British say, skew-whiff"; turned or twisted to one side; "rugs lying askew"; "with his necktie twisted awry"

villainy collapse: a treacherous or vicious act; the quality of evil by virtue of villainous behavior

falsely collapse: in an incorrect manner; "to credit Lister with the first formulation of the basic principle of stratigraphy would be to bestow credit falsely"; in an insincerely false manner; "a seduction on my part would land us with the necessity to rise, bathe and dress, chat falsely about this and that, and emerge into the rest of the evening as though nothing had happened"

deceptive collapse: designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently; "the deceptive calm in the eye of the storm"; "deliberately deceptive packaging"; "a misleading similarity"; "statistics can be presented in ways that are misleading"; "shoddy business practices"; causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true; "deceptive calm"; "a delusory pleasure"

slip of the tongue collapse: an accidental and usually trivial mistake in speaking

baseless collapse: without a basis in reason or fact; "baseless gossip"; "the allegations proved groundless"; "idle fears"; "unfounded suspicions"; "unwarranted jealousy"

trespass collapse: entry to another's property without right or permission; a wrongful interference with the possession of property (personal property as well as realty), or the action instituted to recover damages; break the law; make excessive use of; "You are taking advantage of my good will!"; "She is trespassing upon my privacy"; enter unlawfully on someone's property; "Don't trespass on my land!"

abort collapse: the act of terminating a project or procedure before it is completed; "I wasted a year of my life working on an abort"; "he sent a short message requesting an abort due to extreme winds in the area"; terminate a pregnancy by undergoing an abortion; cease development, die, and be aborted; "an aborting fetus"; terminate before completion; "abort the mission"; "abort the process running on my computer"

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