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111curse — n Curse, imprecation, malediction, anathema are comparable when they denote a denunciation that conveys a wish or threat of evil. Curse (opposed to blessing)usually implies a call upon God or a supernatural power to visit punishment or disaster… …
112cursing — profanity, swearing, *blasphemy Analogous words: *curse, imprecation, malediction, anathema: execration, objurgation (see corresponding verbs at EXECRATE) …
113imprecation — *curse, malediction, anathema Analogous words: execration, damning, objurgation (see corresponding verbs at EXECRATE): *blasphemy, profanity, swearing Antonyms: prayer …
114profanity — *blasphemy, cursing, swearing Analogous words: imprecation, *curse, malediction: execration, objurgation, damning (see corresponding verbs at EXECRATE) …
115abuse — v 1. misuse, misemploy, misapply, misappropriate; wrong, aggrieve, Inf. shaft, Inf. give [s.o.] the shaft, disrespect, Sl. do [s.o.] dirty, Sl. kick [s.o.] around; profane, pervert, prostitute; exploit, impose upon, take advantage of, walk all… …
116ban — v 1. prohibit, forbid, interdict, outlaw, taboo, proscribe; disallow, reject, veto; prevent, preclude, make impossible, Archaic. forfend, inhibit; ostracize, exclude, shut out, debar, bar, segregate; banish, exile, expel, throw out, kick out,… …
117blame — v 1. accuse, hold [s.o.] accountable or responsible, lay at [s.o. s] door, point the finger at [5.0.], Sl. pin or stick [s.t.] on [s.o.], Chiefly Scot. wite; (all in reference to culpability) allege, ascribe, attribute, assign, impute, lay. 2.… …
118censure — n 1. disapproval, disapprobation, reprobation, reprehension, objection; fulmination, denunciation, condemnation; criticism, animadversion, Inf. brickbat, aspersion, obloquy; tirade, philippic, diatribe. 2. reproof, reproach, rebuke, reprimand,… …
119complaint — n 1. criticism, animadversion, Inf. brickbat; cavil, quibble; lament, lamentation, jeremiad, wail, ululation, moan, groan, murmur, whimper, grumble; plaint, demur, objection, Inf. kick, Inf. gripe, All Sl. big stink, squawk, bellyache, beef. 2.… …
120condemnation — n 1. censure, reprehension, animadversion, criticism, remonstration, remonstrance; disapprobation, disapproval, objection, disparagement, deprecation; reproof, reproach, rebuke, reprimand, stricture; denunciation, denouncing, execration,… …
