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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | debasing |
| Synonyms: | cheapening, demeaning, derogatory, disgraceful, downgrading, humiliating, lowering |
| Main Entry: | derogatory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | offensive, uncomplimentary |
| Synonyms: | aspersing, belittling, calumnious, censorious, contumelious, critical, damaging, decrying, defamatory, degrading, demeaning, deprecatory, depreciative, despiteful, detracting, disdainful, dishonoring, disparaging, fault-finding, humiliating, injurious, malevolent, malicious, maligning, minimizing, opprobrious, reproachful, sarcastic, scornful, slanderous, slighting, spiteful, unfavorable, unflattering, vilifying |
| Antonyms: | appreciative, complimentary, favorable, flattering, praising |
| Main Entry: | despicable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hateful; beyond contempt |
| Synonyms: | abject, awful, base, beastly, cheap, contemptible, degrading, detestable, dirty, disgraceful, disreputable, down, ignominious, infamous, insignificant, loathsome, low, low-life, mean, no-good, pitiful, reprehensible, shameful, slimy*, sordid, vile, worthless, wretched |
| Antonyms: | desirous, honorable, likeable, loveable, respectable, virtuous, worthy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | disgraceful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shameful, low |
| Synonyms: | blameworthy, contemptible, degrading, detestable, discreditable, dishonorable, disreputable, ignoble, ignominious, infamous, inglorious, mean, offensive, opprobrious, scandalous, shabby, shady, shocking, shoddy, unrespectable, unworthy |
| Antonyms: | exalted, honorable, respectable |
| Main Entry: | inglorious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disgraceful |
| Synonyms: | blameworthy, contemptible, degrading, detestable, dishonorable, disreputable, ignoble, ignominious, offensive, reprehensible, shameful, unrespectable, unworthy |
| Main Entry: | insulting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | abusive |
| Synonyms: | biting, degrading, derogatory, discourteous, disparaging, disrespectful, hurtful, insolent, offensive, repulsive, ridiculing, rude, slighting, uncivil |
| Main Entry: | menial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lowly, low-status |
| Synonyms: | abject, base, baseborn, boring, common, degrading, demeaning, dull, fawning, grovelling, humble, humdrum, ignoble, ignominious, low, mean, obeisant, obsequious, routine, servile, slavish, sorry, subservient, sycophantic, unskilled, vile |
| Antonyms: | elevated, skilled, superior, talented |
| Main Entry: | shameful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | atrocious; disreputable |
| Synonyms: | base, carnal, contemptible, corrupt, dastardly, debauched, degrading, diabolical, disgraceful, dishonorable, drunken, embarrassing, flagrant, heinous, humiliating, ignominious, immodest, immoral, impure, indecent, infamous, intemperate, lewd, low, mean, mortifying, notorious, obscene, opprobrious, outrageous, profligate, reprehensible, reprobate, ribald, scandalous, shaming, shocking, sinful, unbecoming, unclean, unworthy, vile, villainous, vulgar, wicked |
| Antonyms: | good, reputable, respectable |
| Main Entry: | unhealthy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very bad in effect on well-being |
| Synonyms: | baneful, chancy, corrupt, corrupting, dangerous, degenerate, degrading, deleterious, demoralizing, detrimental, harmful, hazardous, insalubrious, jeopardous, morbid, nefarious, negative, noisome, noxious, perilous, perverse, poisonous, risky, rotten, treacherous, undesirable, unhealthful, unsanitary, unsound, unwholesome, villainous, virulent, wicked |
| Antonyms: | good, healthy |
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