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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | exhibiting unkind behavior or words |
| Synonyms: | calumniating, castigating, censorious, contumelious, defamatory, derisive, disparaging, insolent, insulting, invective, libelous, maligning, obloquious, offensive, opprobrious, reproachful, reviling, rude, sarcastic, scathing, scolding, scurrilous, sharp-tongued, slanderous, traducing, upbraiding, vilifying, vituperative |
| Antonyms: | complimentary, kind, respectful |
| 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: | admonishing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cautionary |
| Synonyms: | admonitory, exemplary, monitory, reproachful, warning |
| Main Entry: | admonitory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cautionary |
| Synonyms: | admonishing, exemplary, monitory, reproachful, warning |
| Main Entry: | overcritical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | critical |
| Synonyms: | analytical, belittling, biting, calumniatory, captious, carping, caviling, cavillous, censorious, censuring, choleric, condemning, critic, cutting, cynical, demanding, demeaning, derogatory, diagnostic, disapproving, discerning, discriminating, disparaging, exacting, exceptive, faultfinding, finicky, fussy, hairsplitting, humbling, hypercritical, lowering, nagging, niggling, nit-picking, particular, penetrating, reproachful, sarcastic, satirical, scolding, severe, sharp, trenchant, withering |
| Main Entry: | vituperative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | abusive |
| Synonyms: | calumniating, castigating, censorious, contumelious, defamatory, derisive, disparaging, insolent, insulting, invective, libelous, maligning, obloquious, offensive, opprobrious, reproachful, reviling, rude, sarcastic, scathing, scolding, scurrilous, sharp-tongued, slanderous, traducing, upbraiding, vilifying |
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