balking

  • 71balk — Synonyms and related words: baffle, bafflement, balk at, balking, be unwilling, beam, beat, begrudge, betrayed hope, bevue, bilk, blast, blasted expectation, blighted hope, blow, boggle, brave, buffet, cast down, challenge, check, checkmate,… …

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  • 72bigoted — Synonyms and related words: Sabbatarian, authoritarian, balking, balky, biased, bigot, borne, bulldogged, bulletheaded, bullheaded, case hardened, closed, conceited, conservative, constricted, cramped, creedbound, deaf, deaf to reason,… …

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  • 73bulldogged — Synonyms and related words: adherent, adhesive, balking, balky, bigoted, bulldoggish, bulldoggy, bulletheaded, bullheaded, case hardened, clingy, dogged, dogmatic, fanatic, gluey, glutinous, gummy, hardheaded, headstrong, intolerant, mulish,… …

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  • 74bullheaded — Synonyms and related words: adherent, adhesive, balking, balky, bigoted, bulldogged, bulldoggish, bulldoggy, bulletheaded, case hardened, clingy, closed minded, deaf, dogged, dogmatic, fanatic, gluey, glutinous, gummy, hardheaded, headstrong,… …

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  • 75case hardened — Synonyms and related words: Philistine, acclimated, acclimatized, accommodated, accustomed, adapted, adjusted, backed, balking, balky, bigoted, brazen, bulldogged, bulletheaded, bullheaded, calcified, callous, calloused, conditioned,… …

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  • 76check — Synonyms and related words: CD, IOU, MO, X, a reckoning of, abrade, abrasion, abysm, abyss, acceptance, acceptance bill, accord, account, account of, agree, allophone, alveolar, answer to, aperture, apico alveolar, apico dental, arrest,… …

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  • 77checkmate — Synonyms and related words: arrest, baffle, bafflement, balk, balking, bell, blast, block, brake, brave, bring to, bring up short, challenge, check, circumvent, confound, confounding, confront, confusion, contravene, counter, counteract,… …

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  • 78defeat — Synonyms and related words: KO, Waterloo, answer, answer conclusively, argue down, baffle, bafflement, balk, balking, bankruptcy, bar, bear down, bear the palm, beat, beat all hollow, beat down, beat hollow, beating, best, betrayed hope, bilk,… …

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  • 79dilatory — Synonyms and related words: Micawberish, apathetic, backward, balking, balky, bone lazy, cadging, dallying, dawdling, delaying, deliberate, dillydallying, do nothing, doless, dragging, dronish, drony, easy, easygoing, ergophobic, faineant, foot… …

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  • 80discomfiture — Synonyms and related words: abashment, agitation, bafflement, balk, balking, beating, befuddlement, betrayed hope, bewilderment, blasted expectation, blighted hope, blow, bother, botheration, buffet, chagrin, chaos, check, checkmate, cloud,… …

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