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  • 31priggish — Synonyms and related words: Quakerish, Victorian, abusive, blackening, blameful, censorious, choicy, choosy, condemnatory, condescending, conformist, conscientious, contemptuous, critical, damnatory, demure, denunciatory, deprecative, deprecatory …

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  • 32reproachful — Synonyms and related words: abusive, admonitory, blackening, blameful, censorious, condemnatory, contemptuous, critical, damnatory, denunciatory, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, derisive, disapproving, disparaging, execrating, execrative …

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  • 33ridiculing — Synonyms and related words: abusive, aweless, back biting, bantering, belittling, bitchy, blackening, blameful, booing, calumniatory, calumnious, catcalling, catty, censorious, chaffing, condemnatory, contemptuous, contumelious, damnatory,… …

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  • 34scoffing — Synonyms and related words: Humism, Pyrrhonism, abusive, agnosticism, banter, bantering, blackening, blameful, booing, catcalling, censorious, chaffing, condemnatory, contemptuous, damnatory, denunciatory, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative,… …

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  • 35vilifying — Synonyms and related words: abusive, back biting, backbiting, belittling, bitchy, blackening, blameful, calumniatory, calumnious, catty, censorious, condemnatory, contemptuous, contumelious, damnatory, defamatory, denunciatory, deprecative,… …

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  • 36vituperative — Synonyms and related words: Rabelaisian, abusive, acid, belittling, biting, blackening, blameful, blasphemous, calumniatory, calumnious, castigatory, censorious, comminatory, condemnatory, contemptuous, contumelious, critical, cursing, damnatory …

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  • 37disapprobation — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Condemnation Nouns 1. disapprobation, disapproval; dislike. 2. (lack of approval) discommendation, demerit; blame, detraction, condemnation. 3. (criticism) animadversion, reflection, stricture, objection …

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  • 38Disapprobation — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Disapprobation >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 disapprobation disapprobation disapproval Sgm: N 1 improbation improbation Sgm: N 1 disesteem disesteem disvaluation displacency Sgm: N 1 odium odium Sgm: N 1 …

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  • 39objurgate — (v.) 1610s, from L. objurgatus, pp. of objurgare to chide, rebuke, from ob (see OB (Cf. ob )) + jurgare to quarrel, scold, from phrase jure agere to deal in a lawsuit, from ablative of ius right; law; suit (see JUST (Cf. just …

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  • 40objurgate — [ ɒbdʒəgeɪt] verb rare rebuke severely. Derivatives objurgation noun objurgatory adjective Origin C17 (earlier (C15) as objurgation): from L. objurgat , objurgare chide …

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