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opprobrium

Main Entry:
infamousness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: notoriety
Synonyms: ballyhoo, celebrity, center stage, dishonor, disrepute, fame, flak, infamy, ink, name*, notoriousness, obloquy, opprobrium, renown, rep, scandal, splash*, spotlight*, wise*, éclat
Main Entry: shamefulness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: infamy
Synonyms: abomination, atrocity, disapprobation, discredit, disesteem, disgrace, disgracefulness, dishonor, dishonorableness, disreputability, disreputableness, disrepute, enormity, evil, ignominiousness, ignominy, immorality, impropriety, notoriety, notoriousness, obloquy, odium, opprobrium, outrageousness, scandal, shame, stigma, villainy, wickedness
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Main Entry: defamation
Part of Speech: noun
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Adjectives:
abusive, black-mouthed, bumptious, calumniatory, calumnious, cavalier, contemptible, contemptuous, contumelious, cynical, defamatory, derisive, derogatory, despicable, despised, detracting, detractory, disdainful, disparaging, downtrodden, foul-mouthed, foul-tongued, haughty, libelous, maledicent, opprobrious, pejorative, pilgarlicky, pitiable, pitiful, sarcastic, sardonic, satirical, scornful, scurrile, scurrilous, slanderous, sniffy, supercilious, thersitical, turpid, unenvied, vilipendious, vituperative, wanky, withering
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Contempt.
Category: 2. Moral sentiments
Synonyms:
-nouns
contempt, disdain, scorn, sovereign contempt; despisal, despiciency; despisement; vilipendency, contumely; slight, sneer, spurn, by-word; despect., contemptuousness; scornful eye; smile of contempt; derision (disrespect)., [State of being despised] despisedness.
-verbs
despise, contemn, scorn, disdain, feel contempt for, view with a scornful eye; disregard, slight, not mind; pass by (neglect)., 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) [more]; 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, traiter de haut enbas; laugh at (be disrespectful)., 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 (repudiate); send away with a flea in the ear.
-adjectives
contemptuous; disdainful, scornful; withering, contumelious, supercilious, cynical, haughty, bumptious, cavalier; derisive., contemptible, despicable; pitiable; pitiful (unimportant); despised; downtrodden; unenvied.
-adverbs
contemptuously.
-phrases
"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].
Antonyms: respect
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Concept: Disrepute.
Category: 4. Extrinsic Affections
Synonyms:
-nouns
disrepute, discredit; ill repute, bad repute, bad name, bad odor, bad favor, ill name, ill odor, ill favor; disapprobation; ingloriousness, derogation; abasement, debasement; abjectness; degradation, dedecoration; a long farewell to all my greatness [Henry VIII]; odium, obloquy, opprobrium, ignominy., dishonor, disgrace; shame, humiliation; scandal, baseness, vileness; turpitude (improbity); infamy., tarnish, taint, defilement, pollution. stain, blot, spot, blur, stigma, brand, reproach, imputation, slur., crying shame, burning.shame; scandalum magnatum, badge of infamy, blot in one's escutcheon; bend sinister, bar sinister; champain, point champain; byword of reproach; Ichabod., argumentum ad verecundiam; sense of shame.
-verbs
be inglorious; incur disgrace; have a bad name, earn a bad name; put a halter round one's neck, wear a halter round one's neck; disgrace oneself, expose oneself., play second fiddle; lose caste; pale one's ineffectual fire; recede into the shade; fall from one's high estate; keep in the background (modesty); be conscious of disgrace (humility); look blue, look foolish, look like a fool; cut a poor figure, cut a sorry figure; laugh on the wrong side of the mouth; make a sorry face, go away with a flea in. one's ear, slink away., cause shame; shame, disgrace, put to shame, dishonor; throw dishonor upon, cast dishonor upon, fling dishonor upon, reflect dishonor upon; be a reproach to; derogate from., tarnish, stain, blot sully, taint; discredit; degrade, debase, deffle; beggar; expel (punish)., impute shame to, brand, post, stigmatize, villify, defame, slur, cast a slur upon, hold up to shame, send to Coventry; tread under foot, trample under foot; show up, drag through the mire, heap dirt upon; reprehend., bring low, put down, snub; take down a peg, take down a peg lower, take down a peg or two., obscure. eclipse, outshine, take the shine out of; throw into the shade, cast into the shade; overshadow; leave in the background, put in the background; push into a corner, put one's nose out of joint; put out, put out of countenance., upset, throw off one's center; discompose, disconcert; put to the blush (humble).
-adjectives
disgraced; blown upon; "shorn of its beams" [Milton], shorn of one's glory; overcome, downtrodden; loaded with shame; in bad repute; out of repute, out of favor, out of fashion, out of countenance; at a discount; under a cloud, under an eclipse; unable to show one's face; in the shade, in the background; out at elbows, down in the world., inglorious; nameless, renownless; obscure; unknown to fame; unnoticed, unnoted, unhonored, unglorified., shameful; disgraceful, discreditable, disreputable; despicable; questionable; unbecoming, unworthy; derogatory; degrading, humiliating, infra dignitatem, dedecorous; scandalous, infamous, too bad, unmentionable; ribald, opprobrious; errant, shocking, outrageous, notorious., ignominious, scrubby, dirty, abject, vile, beggarly, pitiful, low, mean, shabby, base (dishonorable) [more].
-adverbs
to one's shame be it spoken.
Antonyms: repute
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