N. detraction,
disparagement,
depreciation,
vilification,
obloquy,
scurrility,
scandal,
defamation,
aspersion,
traducement,
slander,
calumny,
obtrectation, evil-speaking,
backbiting,
scandalum magnatum,
personality,
libel,
lampoon,
skit,
pasquinade, chronique scandaleuse,
roorback,
sarcasm,
cynicism, criticism (disapprobation) 932,
invective, envenomed tongue, spretae injuria formae,
personality,
libel,
lampoon,
skit,
pasquinade, chronique scandaleuse,
roorback,
detractor V. detract,
derogate,
decry,
deprecate,
depreciate,
disparage, run down, cry down, backcap,
belittle, sneer at, criticize, pull to pieces, pick a hole in one's coat,
asperse, cast aspersions, blow upon,
bespatter,
blacken,
vilify,
vilipend, avile|, give a dog a bad name,
brand,
malign, muckrake,
backbite,
libel,
lampoon,
traduce,
slander,
defame,
calumniate, bear false witness against, speak ill of behind one's back, fling dirt,
anathematize, dip the pen in gall, view in a bad light,
impugn,
assail, attack,
oppose,
denounce,
accuse Adj. detracting,
defamatory,
detractory,
derogatory,
deprecatory,
catty,
disparaging,
libelous,
scurrile,
scurrilous,
abusive,
foul-spoken, foul-tongued,
foul-mouthed,
slanderous,
calumnious,
calumniatory,
sarcastic,
sardonic,
sarcastic,
satirical,
cynical, critical
Phr. "damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer; and without sneering, teach the rest to sneer", another lie nailed to the counter, "cut men's throats with whisperings", "foul whisperings are abroad" "soft-buzzing slander", "virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes"
N. improbity,
dishonesty, dishonor, deviation from rectitude, disgrace,
fraud, lying, bad faith, punic faith, mala fides, punica fides,
infidelity,
faithlessness, judas kiss,
betrayal, breach of promise, breach of trust, breach of faith, prodition|,
disloyalty, treason, high treason,
apostasy,
nonobservance,
shabbiness,
villainy,
villany, baseness,
abjection,
debasement,
turpitude, moral turpitude,
laxity,
trimming,
shuffling,
perfidy,
perfidiousness,
treachery,
double dealing, unfairness,
knavery,
roguery,
rascality, foul play,
jobbing,
jobbery,
graft,
bribery,
venality,
nepotism, corruption, job,
shuffle, fishy transaction,
barratry, sharp practice, heads i win tails you lose, mouth honor
V. be dishonest, play false, break one's word, break one's faith, break one's promise,
jilt,
betray,
forswear,
shuffle, live by one's wits, sail near the wind, disgrace oneself, dishonor oneself, demean oneself,
derogate,
stoop,
grovel,
sneak, lose caste, sell oneself, go over to the enemy, seal one's infamy
Adj. dishonest, dishonorable, unconscientious,
unscrupulous,
fraudulent,
knavish, disgraceful, wicked,
false-hearted,
disingenuous, unfair,
one-sided, double, double- hearted,
double-tongued,
double-faced,
timeserving,
crooked,
tortuous,
insidious,
machiavelian, dark,
slippery,
fishy,
perfidious,
treacherous,
perjured, infamous,
arrant, foul, base,
vile,
ignominious,
blackguard, contemptible, unrespectable,
abject, mean,
shabby, little,
paltry,
dirty,
scurvy,
scabby,
sneaking,
groveling,
scrubby,
rascally,
pettifogging, beneath one,
low-minded,
low-thoughted,
base-minded,
undignified, indign|, unbecoming,
unbeseeming,
unbefitting,
derogatory,
degrading, infra dignitatem, ungentlemanly,
ungentlemanlike, unknightly, unchivalric, unmanly, unhandsome,
recreant, inglorious, corrupt,
venal,
debased,
mongrel, faithless, of bad faith, false, unfaithful,
disloyal, untrustworthy, trustless,
trothless, lost to shame, dead to honor,
barratrous Adv. dishonestly, mala fide, like a thief in the night, by crooked paths
Phr. corruptissima respublica plurimae leges
Int. o tempora, o mores, [Cicero]
