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dishonoring
adjective as in derogatory
adjective as in opprobrious
Weak matches
- abasing
- calumniatory
- contemptuous
- contumelious
- damaging
- debasing
- defamatory
- defaming
- denigrating
- depreciative
- derogative
- despicable
- despiteful
- detractive
- disgracing
- disparaging
- humiliating
- hurting
- injuring
- injurious
- insolent
- insulting
- invective
- libeling
- malevolent
- malign
- malignant
- maligning
- notorious
- offending
- offensive
- pejorative
- reproaching
- reviling
- scandalous
- scurrilous
- shaming
- spiteful
- truculent
- vile
- vitriolic
- vituperative
- vulgar
noun as in meanness
Example Sentences
Initially, he was wary of dishonoring his ancestors.
“That can sometimes deepen that sense of isolation. A lot of parents struggle with, ‘Am I dishonoring my baby’s memory by not being honest about their life and their death?’
Every day, I become more and more convinced that one of the primary sins of our time is the dishonoring of our parents.
And that’s why 100 years later, we would be dishonoring them if we weren’t standing up for this.”
This is what leaders of the SBC are squandering and dishonoring when they embrace bigotry, when they mock and betray the vulnerable, when they drive better men and women out of service to their denomination.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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