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#934. Detraction. -- N. detraction

• disparagement

• depreciation

• vilification

• obloquy

• scurrility

• scandal

• defamation

• aspersion

• traducement

• slander

• calumny

• evil-speaking

• backbiting

• scandalum magnatum[Lat]

• personality

• libel

• lampoon

• skit

• pasquinade

• chronique

• roorback [U.S.]

• sarcasm

• cynicism

• criticism (disapprobation)

• invective

• envenomed tongue

• spretae injuria formae[Lat]

• personality

• libel

• lampoon

• skit

• pasquinade

• chronique

• roorback [U.S.]

• detractor

• V. detract

• derogate

• decry

• deprecate

• depreciate

• disparage

• run

• down

• cry down

• belittle

• sneer at

• criticize

• pull to pieces

• pick a hole in one's coat

• asperse

• cast

• aspersions

• blow upon

• bespatter

• blacken

• vilify

• avile|;

• give a dog a bad name

• brand

• malign

• muckrake

• backbite

• libel

• lampoon

• traduce

• slander

• defame

• calumniate

• bear false witness against

• speak ill

• of behind one's back

• fling dirt

• anathematize

• dip the pen in

• gall

• view in a bad light

• impugn[disparage the motives of]

• assail

• attack

• oppose

• 70

• denounce

• accuse

• Adj. detracting

• defamatory

• derogatory

• deprecatory

• catty

• disparaging

• libelous

• scurrile

• scurrilous

• abusive;

• foul-spoken

• foul-tongued

• foul-mouthed

• slanderous

• calumnious

• sarcastic

• sardonic

• sarcastic

• satirical

• cynical

• critical

• Phr. "damn with faint praise

• assent with civil leer

• and without

• sneering

• teach the rest to sneer" [Pope]

• another lie nailed to the

• counter

• "cut men's throats with whisperings" [B. Jonson]

• "foul

• whisperings are abroad" "soft-buzzing slander" [Macbeth][Thomson]

• "virtue

• itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes" [Hamlet]

#935. Flatterer. -- N. flatterer

• adulator

• eulogist

• euphemist;

• optimist

• encomiast

• laudator[Lat]

• whitewasher

• toady

• sycophant

• courtier

• Sir Pertinax

• MacSycophant

• puffer

• earwig

• doer of dirty work

• parasite

• hanger-on

• (servility) 886

• yes-man

• suckup

• ass-kisser [vulgar]

• brown-noser [vulgar]

• teacher's

• pet

• Phr. pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes [Lat][Tacitus]

#936. Detractor. -- N. detractor

• reprover

• censor

• censurer

• cynic

• critic

• caviler

• carper

• word-catcher

• frondeur

• defamer

• backbiter

• slanderer

• Sir Benjamin Backbite

• lampooner

• satirist

• traducer

• libeler

• calumniator

• Zoilus

• good-natured friend [satirically]

• reviler

• vituperator

• castigator

• shrew

• muckraker

• disapprover

• laudator temporis acti [Lat][Horace]

• Adj. black-mouthed

• abusive

• <-- vindication and advocacy together?? -->

#937. Vindication. -- N. vindication

• justification

• warrant;

• exoneration

• exculpation

• acquittal

• whitewashing

• extenuation

• palliation

• palliative

• softening

• mitigation

• reply

• defense

• recrimination

• apology

• gloss

• varnish

• plea

• salvo

• excuse

• extenuating

• circumstances

• allowance

• allowance to be made

• locus paenitentiae[Lat]

• apologist

• vindicator

• justifier

• defendant

• justifiable charge

• true bill

• v. justify

• warrant

• be an excuse

• lend a color

• furnish a

• handle

• vindicate

• exculpate

• acquit

• clear

• set

• right

• exonerate

• whitewash

• clear the skirts of

• extenuate

• palliate

• excuse

• soften

• apologize

• varnish

• slur

• gloze;

• put a gloss

• put a good face upon

• mince

• gloss over

• bolster up

• help a

• lame dog over a stile

• advocate

• defend

• plead one's cause

• stand up for

• stick up for

• speak

• up for

• contend for

• speak for

• bear out

• keep in countenance

• support;

• plead

• 6

• say in defense

• plead ignorance

• confess and avoid

• put in a good word for

• take the will for the deed

• make allowance for

• give credit for

• do

• justice to

• give one his due

• give the Devil his due

• make good

• prove the truth of

• prove one's case

• be justified by the

• event

• Adj. vindicated

• vindicating

• exculpatory

• apologetic

• excusable

• defensible

• pardonable

• venial

• specious

• plausible

• justifiable

• Phr. "honi sot qui mal y pense"

• "good wine needs no bush."

#938. Accusation. -- N. accusation

• charge

• imputation

• slur

• inculpation

• delation

• crimination

• incrimination

• recrimination

• tu quoque argument[Lat]

• invective

• 932

• denunciation

• denouncement

• libel

• challenge

• citation

• arraignment;

• impeachment

• indictment

• bill of indictment

• true bill;

• lawsuit

• condemnation

• gravamen of a charge

• head and front of one's offending

• argumentum ad

• hominem[Lat]

• scandal

• scandalum magnatum[Lat]

• accuser

• prosecutor

• plaintiff

• relator

• informer

• appellant

• accused

• defendant

• prisoner

• perpetrator

• panel

• respondent;

• litigant

• V. accuse

• charge

• tax

• impute

• twit

• taunt with

• reproach

• brand with reproach

• stigmatize

• slur

• cast a stone at

• cast a slur

• on

• incriminate

• criminate

• inculpate

• implicate

• call to account

• (censure)

• take to blame

• take to task

• put in the black book

• inform against

• indict

• denounce

• arraign

• impeach

• have up

• show up

• pull up

• challenge

• cite

• lodge a complaint

• prosecute

• bring an action against

• blow upon

• charge with

• saddle with

• lay to one's door

• lay charge

• lay the blame

• on

• bring home to

• cast in one's teeth

• throw in one's teeth

• cast the

• first stone at

• have a rod in pickle for

• keep a rod in pickle for

• have a crow to

• pluck with

• trump up a charge

• Adj. accusing

• accusatory

• accusative

• imputative

• denunciatory;

• recriminatory

• accused

• suspected

• under suspicion

• under a cloud

• under

• surveillance

• in custody

• in detention

• in the lockup

• in the watch house

• in the house of detention

• accusable

• imputable

• indefensible

• inexcusable

• unpardonable

• unjustifiable

• vicious

• Int. look at home

• tu quoque

• Phr. "the breath of accusation kills an innocent name" [Shelley];

• "thou can'st not say I did it" [Macbeth]

• 3. MORAL CONDITIONS

#939. Probity. -- N. probity

• integrity

• rectitude

• uprightness

• honesty

• faith

• honor

• good faith

• bona fides[Lat];

• purity

• clean hands

• fairness

• fair play

• justice

• equity

• impartiality

• principle

• even-handedness

• grace

• constancy

• faithfulness

• fidelity

• loyalty

• incorruption

• incorruptibility

• trustworthiness

• truth

• candor

• singleness of heart

• veracity

• tender conscience

• punctilio

• delicacy

• nicety

• scrupulosity

• scrupulousness

• scruple

• point

• point of honor

• punctuality

• dignity

• (repute)

• respectability

• respectableness

• gentleman

• man of honor

• man of his word

• fidus

• galantuomo[It]

• trump

• brick

• true Briton

• white man * [U.S.]

• court of honor

• a fair field and no favor

• argumentum ad

• verecundiam[Lat]

• V. be honorable

• deal honorably

• deal squarely

• deal

• impartially

• deal fairly

• speak the truth

• draw a

• straight furrow

• tell the truth and shame the Devil

• vitam impendere

• vero[Lat]

• show a proper spirit

• make a point of

• do one's duty

• (virtue) 944

• redeem one's pledge

• keep one's promise

• be as good as one's

• promise

• be as good as one's word

• keep faith with

• not fail

• give and take

• audire alteram partem[Lat]

• give the Devil his due

• put

• the saddle on the right horse

• redound to one's honor

• Adj. upright

• honest

• honest as daylight

• veracious

• virtuous

• honorable

• fair

• right

• just

• equitable

• impartial

• evenhanded

• square

• fair and aboveboard

• open and aboveboard

• white * [U.S.]

• constant

• constant as the northern star

• faithful

• loyal

• staunch;

• true

• true blue

• true to one's colors

• true to the core

• true as the needle

• to the pole

• "marble-constant" [Antony and Cleopatra]

• true-hearted

• trusty

• trustworthy

• as good as one's word

• to be depended on

• incorruptible

• straightforward

• frank

• candid

• open-hearted

• conscientious

• tender-conscienced

• right-minded

• high-principled

• high-minded

• scrupulous

• religious

• strict

• nice

• punctilious

• correct

• punctual

• respectable

• reputable

• inviolable

• inviolate

• unbroken

• unbetrayed;

• unbought

• innocent

• pure

• stainless

• unstained

• untarnished

• unsullied

• untainted

• uncorrupt

• uncorrupted

• undefiled

• integer vitae scelerisque purus

• [Lat][Horace]

• justus et tenax propositi [Lat][Horace]

• chivalrous

• jealous of honor

• high-

• spirited

• unworldly

• other-worldly

• Adv. honorable

• bona fide

• on the square

• in good faith

• honor bright

• foro conscientiae[Lat]

• with clean hands

• Phr. "a face untaught to feign" [Pope]

• bene qui latuit bene vixit

• [Lat][Ovid]

• mens sibi conscia recti[Lat]

• probitas laudatur et alget

• fidelis ad urnam[Lat]

• "his heart as far from fraud

• as heaven from earth" [Two Gentlemen]

• loyaute n'a

• "what stronger breastplate than a heart untainted?" [Henry VI]

• dishonesty

• dishonor;

• deviation from rectitude

• disgrace

• fraud

• (deception) 5

• lying

• bad faith

• Punic faith

• mala fides[Lat]

• Punica fides[Lat]

• infidelity

• faithlessness

• Judas kiss

• betrayal

• breach of promise

• breach of trust

• breach of faith

• prodition|

• disloyalty

• treason

• high treason

• apostasy

• nonobservance

• shabbiness

• villainy

• baseness

• abjection

• debasement

• turpitude

• moral turpitude

• laxity

• trimming

• shuffling

• perfidy

• perfidiousness

• treachery

• double dealing;

• unfairness

• knavery

• roguery

• rascality

• foul play

• jobbing

• jobbery

• graft

• bribery

• venality

• nepotism

• corruption

• job

• shuffle

• fishy transaction

• barratry

• sharp practice

• heads I win tails you lose;

• mouth honor

• V. be dishonest

• play false

• break one's word

• break one's

• faith

• break one's promise

• jilt

• betray

• forswear

• shuffle

• live by one's wits

• sail near the wind

• disgrace oneself

• dishonor oneself

• demean oneself

• derogate

• stoop

• grovel

• sneak

• lose caste

• sell oneself

• go over to the enemy

• seal one's

• infamy

• Adj. dishonest

• dishonorable

• unconscientious

• unscrupulous;

• fraudulent

• knavish

• disgraceful

• wicked

• 945

• false-hearted

• disingenuous

• unfair

• one-sided

• double

• double-

• hearted

• double-tongued

• double-faced

• crooked

• tortuous,insidious

• Machiavelian

• dark

• slippery

• fishy

• perfidious

• treacherous

• perjured

• infamous

• arrant

• foul

• base

• vile

• ignominious

• blackguard

• contemptible

• unrespectable

• abject

• mean

• shabby

• little

• paltry

• dirty

• scurvy

• scabby

• sneaking

• groveling

• scrubby

• rascally

• pettifogging

• beneath one

• low-minded

• base-minded

• undignified

• indign|

• unbecoming

• unbefitting;

• derogatory

• degrading

• infra dignitatem [Latin: beneath one's dignity];

• ungentlemanly

• ungentlemanlike

• unmanly

• unhandsome

• recreant

• inglorious

• corrupt

• venal

• debased

• mongrel

• faithless

• of bad faith

• false

• unfaithful

• disloyal

• untrustworthy;

• trustless

• lost to shame

• dead to honor

• barratrous

• Adv. dishonestly

• mala fide[Lat]

• like a thief in the night

• by crooked paths

• Phr. corruptissima respublica plurimae leges [Lat][Tacitus]

#941. Knave. -- N.

#942. Disinterestedness. -- N. disinterestedness

• generosity;

• liberality

• liberalism

• altruism

• benevolence

• elevation

• loftiness

• of purpose

• exaltation

• magnanimity

• chivalry

• chivalrous spirit

• heroism

• sublimity

• self-denial

• self-abnegation

• self-sacrifice

• self-immolation

• self-

• control

• stoicism

• devotion

• martyrdom

• suttee

• labor of love

• V. be disinterested

• make a sacrifice

• lay one's head on the

• block

• put oneself in the place of others

• do as one would be done by

• do

• unto others as we would men should do unto us

• Adj. disinterested

• unselfish

• self-denying

• self-sacrificing

• self-

• devoted

• generous

• handsome

• liberal

• noble

• broad-minded

• noble-minded

• high-minded;

• princely

• great

• high

• elevated

• lofty

• exalted

• spirited

• stoical

• magnanimous

• great-hearted

• large-hearted

• chivalrous

• heroic

• sublime

• unbought

• uncorrupted

• Phr. non vobis solum[Lat]

#943. Selfishness. -- N. selfishness

• self-love

• self-

• indulgence

• self-worship

• self-interest

• egotism

• egoism

• amour

• nepotism

• worldliness

• world wisdom

• illiberality

• meanness

• time-pleaser

• time-server

• tuft-hunter

• fortune-hunter

• jobber

• worldling

• egotist

• egoist

• monopolist

• nepotist

• dog in the manger

• charity that begins at home

• canis in praesepi[Lat]

• "foes to nobleness,"

• temporizer

• trimmer

• V. be selfish

• please oneself

• indulge oneself

• coddle

• oneself

• consult one's own wishes

• consult one's own pleasure

• look after

• one's own interest

• feather one's nest

• take care of number one

• have an

• eye to the main chance

• know on which side one's bread is buttered

• give an

• inch and take an ell

• Adj. selfish

• self-seeking

• self-indulgent

• self-interested

• self-

• centered

• wrapped up in self

• centered in self;

• egotistic

• egotistical

• illiberal

• mean

• ungenerous

• narrow-minded

• mercenary

• venal

• covetous

• unspiritual

• earthly

• earthly-minded

• mundane

• worldly

• worldly-

• minded

• worldly-wise

• interested

• alieni appetens sui profusus[Lat]

• Adv. ungenerously

• to gain some private ends

• from interested

• motives