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| Main Entry: | |
| 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: | defamatory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | libelous, slanderous |
| Synonyms: | abusive, calumnious, contumelious, denigrating, derogatory, detracting, detractive, disparaging, injurious, insulting, maligning, opprobrious, traducing, vilifying, vituperative |
| Antonyms: | approving, commending, complimentary, exalting, praising |
| Main Entry: | degrading |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | debasing |
| Synonyms: | cheapening, demeaning, derogatory, disgraceful, downgrading, humiliating, lowering |
| Main Entry: | destructive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hurtful, disparaging |
| Synonyms: | abrasive, adverse, antagonistic, cankerous, caustic, contrary, corrosive, deleterious, derogatory, detrimental, discouraging, discrediting, erosive, hostile, injurious, invalidating, negative, offensive, opposed, troublesome, undermining, vicious |
| Antonyms: | encouraging, hopeful, positive |
| Main Entry: | disadvantageous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | detrimental, inconvenient |
| Synonyms: | adverse, contrary, damaging, debit-side, deleterious, depreciative, depreciatory, derogatory, detracting, disparaging, downside, dyslogistic, harmful, hurtful, ill-timed, inexpedient, injurious, inopportune, objectionable, on the debit side, pejorative, prejudicial, slighting, uncomplimentary, unfavorable, unprofitable |
| Antonyms: | advantageous, convenient, helpful, well-timed |
| Main Entry: | disreputable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dishonorable, lowly |
| Synonyms: | abject, bad, base, beggarly, cheap, contemptible, derogatory, despicable, discreditable, disgraceful, disorderly, dissolute, ignominious, in bad, in low esteem, in the doghouse, infamous, inglorious, lewd, libidinous, licentious, mean, no good, notorious, opprobrious, pitiable, scandalous, scurvy, shabby, shady, shameful, shocking, shoddy, sordid, sorry, unprincipled, vicious, vile |
| Antonyms: | decent, ethical, honorable, principled, reputable, respected |
| 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: | pejorative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | negative, belittling |
| Synonyms: | debasing, deprecatory, depreciatory, derisive, derogatory, detracting, detractive, detractory, disadvantageous, disparaging, irreverent, rude, slighting, uncomplimentary, unpleasant |
| Antonyms: | complimentary, positive, praising |
| Main Entry: | sharp-tongued |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | critical |
| Synonyms: | belittling, biting, carping, censuring, condemning, cursing, cutting, cynical, demeaning, derogatory, harsh, hypercritical, mean, nasty, sarcastic, satirical |
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