aspersive
11abusive — adj 1. affronting, insulting, offensive, off putting, unbearable, insufferable, intolerable, Brit. Inf. beastly, Archaic. affrontive; fulminatory, objurgatory, objurgative, contumelious; indecent, vulgar, obscene, lewd, licentious; smutty, filthy …
12censorious — adj critical, faultfinding, captious, carping; complaining, animadversional, nagging, hair splitting, querulous, caviling; caustic, biting, vitriolic, cutting, trenchant, severe; disparaging, berating, derogatory, disapproving, disapprobatory,… …
13defamatory — adj 1. denigrating, vituperative, vil ipenditory, critical, condemnatory, denunciatory, disapprobatory, disapproving, imprecating, maledic tive, maledictory; scandalous, shocking, flagrant, notorious, outrageous; shameful, disgraceful,… …
14derogatory — adj 1. discrediting, disfavorable, unfavorable, disapproving, disapprobatory, disapprobative; censuring, reproachful, opprobrious, impeaching, slating, inveighing, reproving, recriminating, reprehensive, reprobative, reprobating. 2. belittling,… …
15detractive — adj 1. belittling, disparaging, demeaning, deflating, derogatory, derogative, derogating, detractory, detracting, depreciatory, depreciative, depreciating, devaluating; humiliating, humbling, mortifying; lampooning, caricaturing, ridiculing,… …
16iconoclastic — adj 1. image breaking, bubble bursting; denunciatory, condemning, censuring, aspersive, maligning; critical, carping, faultfinding; oppositional, antagonistic, adversative, challenging. 2. antichristian, antireligious, impious, irreverent,… …
17invective — n 1. diatribe, tirade, philippic, denunciation; disparagement, discrediting, depreciation, deprecation, insinuation, belittlement, minimization; objurgation, fulmination, contumely, berating, upbraiding, scolding, tongue lashing; castigation,… …
18libelous — adj 1. defamatory, denigrating, vituperative, vilifying, vilipenditory; critical, denunciable, imprecatory, condemnatory, disapproving, disapprobatory, maledictory; scandalous, notorious, flagrant, outrageous; censurable, blameworthy, culpable,… …
19malicious — adj 1. malevolent, malign, malignant, maleficent, malefic, wanton, Archaic. despiteous, evil intentioned, evil disposed. See malevolent(defs.1, 2). 2. defamatory, denigrating, vituperative, vilifying, vilipenditory; slanderous, libelous,… …
20scandalous — adj 1. disgraceful, shameful, dishonorable, degraded, inglorious; infamous, ignominious, odious, opprobrious, contemptible, despicable, sordid, detestable; degenerate, depraved, unmentionable, corrupt, reprehensible, debased, abased, vitiated,… …
