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#929. Disrespect. -- N. disrespect

• disesteem

• disparagement

• (detraction) 934

• irreverence

• slight

• neglect

• spretae injuria formae [Lat][Vergil]

• superciliousness

• vilipendency|

• vilification

• contumely

• affront

• dishonor

• insult

• indignity

• outrage

• discourtesy

• practical joking

• scurrility

• scoffing

• sibilance

• hissing

• sibilation

• derision;

• mockery

• irony

• sarcasm

• hiss

• hoot

• boo

• gibe

• flout

• jeer

• scoff

• gleek|

• taunt

• sneer

• quip

• fling

• wipe

• slap in the face

• V. hold in disrespect

• misprize

• disregard

• slight

• trifle with

• set at naught

• pass by

• push aside

• overlook

• turn one's back

• upon

• laugh in one's sleeve

• be disrespectful

• be discourteous

• 8

• treat with disrespect

• set down

• put down

• browbeat

• dishonor

• desecrate

• insult

• affront

• outrage

• speak slightingly of

• disparage

• vilify

• call names

• throw dirt

• fling dirt

• drag through the mud

• point at

• indulge in personalities

• make mouths

• make faces

• bite the thumb

• take by

• the beard

• pluck by the beard

• toss in a blanket

• tar and feather

• have in derision

• hold in derision

• deride

• scoff

• barrack

• sneer

• laugh at

• snigger

• ridicule

• gibe

• mock

• jeer

• hiss

• hoot

• taunt

• twit

• gleek|!

• gird

• flout

• roast

• turn into ridicule;

• burlesque

• laugh to scorn

• smoke

• fool

• make

• game of

• make a fool of

• play a practical

• joke

• lead one a dance

• run the rig upon

• have a fling at

• scout

• mob

• Adj. disrespectful

• aweless

• irreverent

• disparaging

• insulting

• supercilious

• contemptuous

• patronizing

• 930

• rude

• derisive

• sarcastic

• scurrile

• scurrilous

• contumelious

• disregarded

• Adv. disrespectfully

#930. Contempt. -- N. contempt

• disdain

• scorn

• sovereign contempt;

• vilipendency|!

• contumely

• slight

• sneer

• spurn

• by-word

• contemptuousness

• scornful eye

• smile of contempt

• derision

• V. despise

• contemn

• scorn

• disdain

• feel contempt for

• view with a

• scornful eye

• disregard

• slight

• not mind

• pass by

• look down upon

• hold cheap

• hold in contempt

• hold in disrespect;

• think nothing of

• think small beer of

• make light of

• underestimate

• esteem slightly

• esteem of small or no account

• take no account of

• care nothing for

• set no store by

• not care a straw

• sneeze at

• (unimportance)

• set at naught

• laugh in one's sleeve

• laugh up one's

• sleeve

• snap one's fingers at

• shrug one's shoulders

• turn up one's nose

• at

• pooh-pooh

• "damn with faint praise" [Pope]

• whistle at

• sneer at

• curl

• up one's lip

• toss the head

• laugh at

• disrespectful) 929

• point the finger of scorn

• hold up to scorn

• laugh to scorn

• scout

• hoot

• flout

• hiss

• scoff at

• turn one's back upon

• turn a cold shoulder upon

• tread upon

• trample

• upon

• trample under foot

• spurn

• kick

• fling to the winds

• 6

• send away with a flea in the ear

• Adj. contemptuous

• disdainful

• scornful

• withering

• contumelious

• supercilious

• cynical

• haughty

• bumptious

• cavalier

• derisive

• contemptible

• despicable

• pitiable

• pitiful

• despised

• downtrodden

• unrespectable (unworthy) 874

• Adv. contemptuously

• Int. a fig for

• bah! never mind! away with! hang

• it! fiddlededee!

• Phr. "a dismal universal hiss

• the sound of public scorn" [Paradise

• Lost]

• "I had rather be a dog and bay the moon than such a Roman" [Julius

• Caesar]

#931. Approbation. -- N. approbation

• approval

• sanction

• advocacy

• nod of approbation

• esteem

• estimation

• good opinion

• golden opinions

• admiration

• love

• appreciation

• regard

• account

• popularity

•  

• credit

• repute

• best seller

• commendation

• praise

• laud

• laudation

• good word

• meed of praise

• tribute of praise

• encomium

• eulogy

• panegyric;

• homage

• hero worship

• benediction

• blessing

• benison

• applause

• plaudit

• clap

• clapping

• clapping of hands

• acclaim

• acclamation

• cheer

• paean

• hosannah

• shout of applause

• peal of applause

• chorus of applause

• chorus of praise

• Prytaneum

• V. approve

• think good

• think much of

• think well

• of

• think highly of

• esteem

• value

• prize

• set great store by

• set great

• store on

• do justice to

• appreciate

• honor

• hold in esteem

• look up to

• admire;

• like

• be in favor of

• wish Godspeed

• hail

• hail with satisfaction

• stand up for

• stick up for

• uphold

• hold up

• countenance

• sanction;

• clap on the back

• pat on the back

• keep in countenance

• indorse

• give

• credit

• recommend

• mark with a white mark

• mark with a stone

• commend

• praise

• laud

• compliment

• pay a tribute

• clap the hands

• applaud

• cheer

• encore;

• eulogize

• cry up

• puff

• extol

• extol to the

• skies

• magnify

• glorify

• exalt

• swell

• make much of

• flatter

• bless

• give a blessing to

• have a good word for

• say a good word for

• speak

• well of

• speak highly of

• speak in high terms of

• sing the praises of

• sound the praises of

• chaunt the praises of

• resound the praises of

• sing

• praises to

• cheer to the echo

• applaud to the echo

• applaud to the very

• echo

• cheer to the very echo

• redound to the honor

• redound to the praise

• redound to the credit of;

• do credit to

• deserve praise

• recommend itself

• pass muster

• be praised

• receive honorable mention

• be in favor with

• be in

• high favor with

• ring with the praises of

• win golden opinions

• gain

• credit

• find favor with

• stand well in the opinion of

• laudari a laudato

• viro[Lat]

• Adj. approving

• in favor of

• lost in admiration

• commendatory

• complimentary

• laudatory

• panegyrical

• eulogistic

• encomiastic

• lavish of praise

• uncritical

• approved

• praised

• uncensured

• unimpeached

• popular

• in good

• odor

• in high esteem

• in favor

• in high favor

• deserving of praise

• worthy of praise

• praiseworthy

• commendable

• of estimation

• good

• meritorious

• estimable

• creditable

• plausible

• unimpeachable

• beyond all praise

• Adv. with credit

• to admiration

• well

• with three times three

• Int. hear hear! bully for you! * well done! bravo! bravissimo!

• euge[Ger]! macte virtute[Lat]! so far so good

• that's right

• quite right;

• may your shadow never be less! esto

• Phr. probatum est[Lat]

• tacent satis laudant[Lat]

• "servant of God

• well done!" [Paradise Lost]

• [note 1][Obsolete in England except in legal writings

• but surviving in the

• United States chiefly in a technical sense for license. C.O.S.M.]

#932. Disapprobation. -- N. disapprobation

• disapproval;

• disesteem

• odium;

• dislike

• dispraise

• blame

• censure

• obloquy

• detraction

• disparagement

• depreciation

• denunciation

• condemnation

• ostracism

• black list

• animadversion

• reflection

• stricture

• objection

• exception

• criticism;

• sardonic grin

• sardonic laugh

• sarcasm

• insinuation

• innuendo

• bad

• compliment

• poor compliment

• left-handed compliment

• satire

• sneer

• taunt

• cavil

• carping

• censoriousness

• hypercriticism

• reprehension

• remonstrance

• expostulation

• reproof

• reprobation

• admonition

• reproach

• rebuke

• reprimand

• castigation

• lecture

• curtain lecture

• blow up

• wigging

• dressing

• rating

• scolding

• trimming

• correction

• set down

• rap on the knuckles

• coup

• rebuff

• slap

• slap on the face

• home thrust

• hit

• frown

• scowl

• black look

• diatribe

• jeremiad

• jeremiade

• tirade

• philippic

• clamor

• outcry

• hue and cry

• hiss

• hissing

• sibilance

• sibilation

• catcall

• execration

• chiding

• upbraiding

• abuse

• vituperation

• invective

• objurgation

• contumely

• hard words

• cutting words

• bitter words

• evil-speaking

• bad language

• personality

• V. disapprove

• dislike

• lament

• object to

• take

• exception to

• be scandalized at

• think ill of

• view with disfavor

• view

• with dark eyes

• view with jaundiced eyes

• nil admirari[Lat]

• frown upon

• look grave

• bend the brows

• knit the brows

• shake the head

• at

• shrug the shoulders

• turn up the nose

• look askance

• look black upon

• look with an evil eye

• make a wry face

• make a wry mouth

• at

• set one's face against

• dispraise

• disparage

• deprecate

• speak ill of

• not

• speak well of

• condemn

• blame

• lay blame upon

• cast blame upon

• censure

• reproach

• pass censure on

• reprobate

• impugn

• remonstrate

• expostulate

• recriminate

• reprehend

• chide

• admonish

• berate

• bring to account

• call to account

• call over the coals

• rake over the coals

• call to order;

• take to task

• reprove

• lecture

• bring to book

• read a lesson

• read a

• lecture to

• rebuke

• correct

• reprimand

• chastise

• castigate

• lash

• blow up

• trounce

• trim

• laver la

• overhaul

• give it one

• give it one finely

• gibbet

• accuse

• impeach

• denounce

• hold up to reprobation

• hold up to

• execration

• expose

• brand

• gibbet

• stigmatize

• show up

• pull up

• take up;

• cry "shame" upon

• be outspoken

• raise a hue and cry against

• execrate

• speak daggers

• vituperate

• abuse

• abuse like a pickpocket

• scold

• rate

• objurgate

• upbraid

• fall foul of;

• jaw

• rail

• rail at

• rail in good set terms

• bark at

• anathematize

• call

• names

• call by hard names

• call by ugly names

• avile|

• revile

• vilify

• bespatter

• backbite

• rave against

• thunder against

• fulminate against

• load with reproaches

• exclaim against

• protest against

• inveigh against

• declaim against

• cry out against

• raise one's voice against

• decry

• cry down

• run down

• frown down

• clamor

• hiss

• hoot

• mob

• ostracize

• blacklist

• draw up a round robin

• sign a round robin

• animadvert upon

• reflect upon

• glance at

• cast reflection

• cast

• reproach

• cast a slur upon

• insinuate

• damn with faint praise

• "hint a

• fault and hesitate dislike"

• not to be able to say much for

• scoff at

• point at

• twit

• taunt

• sneer at

• (despise) 230

• satirize

• lampoon

• defame

• depreciate

• find fault with

• criticize

• cut up

• pull to pieces

• pick to pieces

• take

• exception

• cavil

• peck at

• nibble at

• carp at

• be censorious

• pick

• holes

• pick a hole

• pick a hole in one's coat

• make a fuss about

• take down

• take down a peg

• set down

• snub

• snap one up

• give a rap on

• the knuckles

• throw a stone at

• throw a stone in one's garden

• have a

• fling

• have a snap at

• have words with

• pluck a crow with

• give one a wipe

• give one a lick with the rough side of the tongue

• incur blame

• excite disapprobation

• scandalize

• shock

• revolt

• get a

• bad name

• forfeit one's good opinion

• be under a cloud

• come under the

• ferule

• bring a hornet's nest about one's ears

• take blame

• stand corrected

• have to answer for

• Adj. disapproving

• scandalized

• disparaging

• condemnatory

• denunciatory

• reproachful

• abusive

• clamorous

• vituperative

• defamatory

• satirical

• sarcastic

• sardonic

• cynical

• dry

• sharp

• cutting

• biting

• severe

• withering

• trenchant

• hard upon

• censorious

• critical

• captious

• carping

• hypercritical

• fastidious

• sparing of praise

• grudging

• praise

• disapproved

• chid

• in bad odor

• blown upon

• unapproved;

• at a discount

• exploded

• weighed in the balance and found

• wanting

• blameworthy

• reprehensible

• to blame

• worthy of blame;

• answerable

• uncommendable

• exceptionable

• not to be thought of

• bad

• 6

• vicious

• unlamented

• Adv. with a wry face

• reproachfully

• Int. it is too bad! it won't do

• it will never do! marry come up! Oh!

• come! 'sdeath!

• forbid it Heaven! God forbid

• Heaven forbid! out upon

• fie upon it!

• fie for shame! out on

• you!

• tell it not in Gath!

#933. Flattery. -- N. flattery

• adulation

• gloze

• blandishment

• cajolery

• fawning

• wheedling

• coquetry

• obsequiousness

• sycophancy

• tuft-hunting

• snobbishness

• incense

• honeyed words

• flummery

• bunkum

• buncombe

• blarney

• placebo

• butter

• soft soap

• rose water

• voice of the charmer

• mouth honor

• lip homage

• euphemism

• unctuousness

• V. flatter

• praise to the skies

• puff

• wheedle

• cajole

• coax

• fawn upon

• faun upon

• humor

• gloze

• soothe

• pet

• coquet

• slaver

• butter

• jolly [U.S.]

• bespatter

• lay it on thick

• overpraise

• earwig

• cog

• truckle to

• pander to

• suck up to

• kiss the ass of

• [vulgar]

• pay court to

• court

• creep into the good graces of

• curry favor

• with

• hang on the sleeve of

• fool to the top of one's bent

• lick the dust

• lay the flattering unction to one's soul

• gild the pill

• make things

• pleasant

• overestimate

• exaggerate

• Adj. flattering

• adulatory

• mealy-mouthed

• honey-mouthed;

• honeyed

• smooth

• smooth-tongued

• soapy

• oily

• unctuous

• specious

• fine-spoken

• fair spoken

• plausible

• servile

• sycophantic

• fulsome

• courtier-like

• Adv. ad captandum[Lat]