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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | muck, gelled waste |
| Synonyms: | fungus, glop, goo, gunk, mire, mucus, mud, ooze, scum, sludge |
| Main Entry: | dirt |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | grime, impurity |
| Synonyms: | crud, dreck, dregs, excrement, feculence, filth, filthiness, gook, ground, gunk, mire, muck, mud, rottenness, scuz, sleaze, slime, smudge, smut, soil, stain, tarnish |
| Antonyms: | cleanliness, pureness, purity, sterility |
| Main Entry: | filth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dirt, pollution |
| Synonyms: | carrion, contamination, corruption, crud, defilement, dregs, dung, excrement, feces, feculence, filthiness, foul matter, foulness, garbage, grime, impurity, manure, mire, muck, mud, nastiness, ordure, putrefaction, putrescence, putridity, refuse, rottenness, sediment, sewage, silt, sleaze, slime, slop, sludge, slush, smut, trash, uncleanness |
| Antonyms: | cleanliness, purity, sterility |
| Main Entry: | mire |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | muck, morass |
| Synonyms: | bog, dirt, fen, glop, goo, gunk, marsh, moss, mud, ooze*, quagmire, quicksand, slime, swamp |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ooze |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | liquid emitted |
| Synonyms: | alluvium, fluid, glop, goo, gook, gunk, mire, muck, mud, silt, slime, sludge |
| Main Entry: | slander |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | scandalous remark |
| Synonyms: | aspersion, backbiting, backstabbing, belittlement, black eye, calumny, defamation, depreciation, detraction, dirt*, dirty linen, disparagement, hit*, libel, lie, misrepresentation, muckraking, mud, mud-slinging, obloquy, rap, scandal, slam*, slime, smear, tale |
| Notes: | libel (from Latin libellus 'little book') must be published, while spoken defamatory remarks are slander; libel first meant 'document, written statement' slander is spoken defamation; libel is written or visual or broadcast defamation |
| Antonyms: | glorification, nicety, praise |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sludge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mud |
| Synonyms: | glop, goo, goop, grease, gunk, mire, muck, oil, ooze, scum, sediment, silt, slime, slop |
| Notes: | slush is partially melted snow, while sludge is the semisolid material produced by sewage treatment |
| Main Entry: | muck |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | messy substance |
| Synonyms: | dirt, dung, filth, garbage, goo, gook, gunk, manure, mud, ooze, refuse, sewage, slime, sludge, trash, waste |
| Main Entry: | muck |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | refuse |
| Synonyms: | dung, manure, mire, mud, slime, trash, waste |
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