reviler
31accuser — n incriminator, criminator, recriminator, impeacher, charger, denouncer, Chiefly Scot. delator; informer, stool pigeon, Sl. fink, Sl. rat; blamer, assail er, attacker, reviler; adversary, opponent, opposer; AllLaw. plaintiff, prosecutor,… …
32assailant — n assaulter, attacker, accoster, assailer, aggressor; antagonist, foe, enemy, opponent, adversary, challenger; accuser, reviler, maligner, slanderer, vilifier, abuser …
33censor — n 1. examiner, reader, inspector, reviewer; expurgator, bowdlerizer, abridger, amender; Mrs. Grundy. 2. faultfinder, critic, criticaster, Inf. knocker; carper, complainer, caviler; castigator, chastiser, censurer, reprimander, chider, scold,… …
34detractor — n 1. belittler, disparager, deprecator, derogator, depredator; lampooner, satirist, muckrak er, hack; defamer, vilifier, vilipender, denigrator, scandalizer, impugner, asperser, backbiter, maligner, evil speaker, carper, caviler, Inf. knocker;… …
35maligner — n 1. defamer, vilifier, vilipender, vitu perator, denigrator, scandalizer, asperser, impugner, backbiter, evil speaker, carper, caviler, Inf. knocker; censor, reviler, castigator, inveigher, reprover, disapprove^ denouncer, railer, curser,… …
36shrew — n virago, termagant, harpy, fury; vixen, spitfire, she wolf, hell cat, tigress; haridan, witch, orgress, old cat, brimstone; hag, crone, beldam, Sl. bitch; nag, Inf. biddy, Inf. old biddy; scold, common scold, fish wife; grouch, crab, grumbler;… …
37termagant — n virago, shrew, harpy, fury; vixen, spitfire, she wolf, hell cat, tigress; haridan, witch, ogress, old cat, brimstone, Inf. battle ax; gorgon, hag, crone, beldam, Sl. bitch; nag, Inf. biddy, Inf. old biddy; scold, common scold, fishwife; grouch …
38traducer — n 1. maligner, defamer, calumniator, slanderer, libeler, misrepresenter, liar, Inf. hatchet man; vilifier, asperser, denigrator, smearer, backbiter; defiler, vitiator, blackener, besmircher, mud or dirt flinger. 2. impugner, impeacher, attacker,… …
39vituperator — n 1. censurer, reviler, castigator, inveigher, reprover, disapprover, censor; denouncer, railer, curser, execrator, imprecator, anathematizer, critic; defamer, vilifier, vilipender, denigrator, scan dalizer, impugner, asperser, backbiter,… …
40revile — re•vile [[t]rɪˈvaɪl[/t]] v. viled, vil•ing 1) to address or speak of with contemptuous, abusive, or opprobrious language 2) to speak abusively • Etymology: 1325–1375; ME < OF reviler. See re , vile re•vile′ment, n. re•vil′er, n. re•vil′ing•ly …
