aspersion
wet job
lay a glove on
insulting
pelt
scoff
reproach
deprecating
denigration
defamation
slander
calumny
swipe
harangue
stain
rub up the wrong way
raise someone's hackles
get someone's back up
fustigate
blackmail
smirch
drop dead
give someone what-for
cut down
handbag
trash out
bauchle
slur
pile on
throw stones
fuck
ridicule
vellicate
get someone's dander up
throw shade
smear word
get someone's Irish up
paddock
Chinese compliment
byword
take apart
insultory
ugh
bag out
geck
miscall
handbagging
pull up
insultingly
tease
offend
wide
brickbatting
censure
invective
give stick
target
disdain
give someone the shits
put down
bash
pillory
>
affrontment
libelous
to hell with
insult
rascalize
ride
scandal
smearer
persecutor
affront
Ratner moment
obscenity
harass
carry
pejoratively
judge
polemic
derisive
repellant
disgusting
foul
pique
loathly
repelling
despise
sneer
disgustful
read
tear someone a new one
distasteful
revolting
pan
loathsome
repellent
insulting
deprecating
insultory
wide
libelous
repellant
disgusting
foul
loathly
repelling
disgustful
distasteful
revolting
loathsome
repellent
insultingly
pejoratively
aspersion
wet job
scoff
denigration
defamation
slander
calumny
swipe
harangue
smear word
paddock
Chinese compliment
byword
geck
handbagging
brickbatting
invective
target
affrontment
ridicule
insult
scandal
smearer
persecutor
affront
Ratner moment
obscenity
polemic
derisive
sneer
lay a glove on
pelt
reproach
stain
rub up the wrong way
raise someone's hackles
get someone's back up
fustigate
blackmail
smirch
give someone what-for
cut down
handbag
trash out
bauchle
slur
pile on
throw stones
fuck
ridicule
vellicate
get someone's dander up
throw shade
get someone's Irish up
take apart
bag out
miscall
pull up
tease
offend
censure
give stick
disdain
give someone the shits
put down
bash
pillory
rascalize
ride
harass
carry
judge
pique
despise
read
tear someone a new one
pan
verb
- To assail (someone) with harsh words in speech or writing; to abuse, to insult.
- Chiefly followed by at: to (continuously) throw (missiles) at.
- Especially of hailstones, rain, or snow: to beat down or fall forcefully or heavily; to rain down.
- To repeatedly beat or hit (someone or something).
- To remove the skin from (an animal); to skin.
- To force (someone or something) to move using blows or the throwing of missiles.
- Of a number of small objects (such as raindrops), or the sun's rays: to beat down or fall on (someone or something) in a shower.
- To move rapidly, especially in or on a conveyance.
- Chiefly followed by from: to remove (the skin) from an animal.
- To bombard (someone or something) with missiles.
noun
- A blow or stroke from something thrown.
- A tattered or worthless piece of clothing; a rag.
- The skin of an animal with the hair or wool on; either a raw or undressed hide, or a skin preserved with the hair or wool on it (sometimes worn as a garment with minimal modification).
- The fur or hair of a living animal.
- The skin of an animal (especially a goat or sheep) with the hair or wool removed, often in preparation for tanning.
- Human skin, especially when bare; also, a person's hair.
- A beating or falling down of hailstones, rain, or snow in a shower.
- An act of moving quickly; a rush.
- Anything in a ragged and worthless state; rubbish, trash.
noun
- An attack, insult or critical remark.
- A quick grab, bat, or other motion with the hand or paw; a sweep.
- A rough guess; an estimate or swag.
- An act of passing a swipecard through a card reader.
- An act of interacting with a touch screen by drawing the finger rapidly across it.
- Poor, weak beer or other inferior alcoholic beverage; rotgut.
- A strong blow given with a sweeping motion, as with a bat or club.
verb
verb
noun
verb
- To insult or slight.
- To run together; to articulate poorly.
- To play legato or without separate articulation; to connect (notes) smoothly.
- To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
- To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.
- To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.
noun
- In knitting machines, a device for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.
- An insinuation or innuendo.
- An act of running one's words together; poor verbal articulation.
- A mark, stain, or smear; (by extension) a slight occasion of reproach.
- A disparaging insult or slight, particularly one used to denigrate a specific group.
- A set of notes that are played legato, without separate articulation.
- The symbol indicating a legato passage, written as an arc over the slurred notes (not to be confused with a tie).
verb
- Used to express great displeasure with, or contemptuous dismissal of, someone or something.
- To insert one's penis, a dildo, or other object, into a person or a specified orifice or cleft sexually; to penetrate.
- To have sexual intercourse; to copulate.
- To defraud, deface, or otherwise treat badly.
- Used in a phrasal verb: fuck with (“to play with, to tinker”).
- To be very good, to rule, go hard.
- To have sexual intercourse with.
- To put in an extremely difficult or impossible situation.
- To break, to destroy.
- To make a joke at one's expense; to make fun of in an embarrassing manner.
- To throw, to lob something. (angrily)
- To scold.
adv
particle
noun
- The smallest amount of concern or consideration.
- A sexual partner, especially a casual one.
- A highly contemptible person.
- An act of sexual intercourse.
intj
noun
- A contemptible, or malicious or nasty, person.
- An enclosure next to a racecourse where horses are paraded and mounted before a race and unsaddled after a race.
- A small enclosure or field of grassland, especially one used to exercise or graze horses or other animals.
- A field on which a game is played; a playing field.
- A field of grassland of any size, either enclosed by fences or delimited by geographical boundaries, especially a large area for keeping cattle or sheep.
- A place in a superficial deposit where ore or washdirt (“earth rich enough in metal to pay for washing”) is excavated; also, a place for storing ore, washdirt, etc.
- A toad.
- An area at a racing circuit where the racing vehicles are parked and worked on before and between races.
- A frog.
- A simple, usually triangular, sledge which is dragged along the ground to transport items.
verb
noun
- An object of notoriety or contempt, scorn or derision.
- A nickname or epithet.
- Someone or something that stands as an example (i.e. metonymically) for something else, by having some of that something's characteristic traits.
- A characteristic word or expression; a word or phrase associated with a person or group.
- A proverb or proverbial expression, common saying; a frequently used word or phrase.
verb
verb
- To admonish or criticize someone for their actions.
- To intentionally take a racehorse out of a race, usually as a result of the horse's tiredness or concerns of potential injury (in reference to the act of pulling up the reins).
- To raise the nose of an aircraft.
- To cause (a horse) to stop when riding.
- To fetch for display on a screen.
- To arrive at a halt; to approach and stop at a particular point.
- To cause (a person) to stop.
- To lift upwards or vertically.
- To pull forward.
- To improve; to get better; to lift one's game.
- To travel somewhere, especially to meet someone else; to come to.
verb
- To provoke or disturb; to annoy.
- To separate the fibres of (a fibrous material).
- To poke fun at, either cruelly or affectionately.
- To entice, tempt.
- To show as forthcoming, in the manner of a teaser.
- To comb (originally with teasels) so that the fibres all lie in one direction.
- To manipulate or influence the behavior of, especially by repeated acts of irritation.
- To backcomb.
noun
adj
- Antagonistic, provocative.
- Of or supporting a greater range of text characters than can fit into the traditional 8-bit representation.
- Operating at the side of the playing area.
- Large in scope.
- Having a large physical extent from side to side.
- On one side or the other of the mark; too far sideways from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc.
noun
adv
noun
- A person, place, or thing that is frequently attacked, criticized, or ridiculed.
- A conspicuous disk attached to a switch lever to show its position, or for use as a signal.
- A bearing representing a buckler.
- The translated version of a document, or the language into which translation occurs.
- A person (or group of people) that a person or organization is trying to employ or to have as a customer, audience etc.
- A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war.
- The pattern or arrangement of a series of hits made by a marksman on a butt or mark.
- A butt or mark to shoot at, as for practice, or to test the accuracy of a firearm, or the force of a projectile.
- the number of runs that the side batting last needs to score in the final innings in order to win
- An object of criticism or ridicule.
- A goal or objective.
- The tenor of a metaphor.
- The sliding crosspiece, or vane, on a leveling staff.
verb
verb
- To insult, belittle, or demean.
- To drop someone off, or let them out of a vehicle.
- To euthanize (an animal).
- To make prices, or taxes, lower.
- To pay.
- To terminate a call; to hang up.
- To give something as a reason for something else.
- To add a name to a list.
- To halt, eliminate, stop, or squelch, often by force.
- To land.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see put, down.
- To execute (a person), especially extrajudicially.
- To write (something).
- To place a baby somewhere to sleep.
- To cease, temporarily or permanently, reading (a book).
symbol
- Used to emphasize and make fun of a person's actions.
- Used to emphasize and make fun of (what the speaker assumes is) a person's inner thoughts.
- Used to signify enjoyment or appreciation of something (over everything else), often with many repetitions of the symbol.
- Used to quote a person, especially to emphasize what was said and make fun of the person.
- Used for storytelling in short, fragmented statements.
verb
- To nag or criticize; to annoy (someone).
- To overlap (each other); said of bones or fractured fragments.
- To be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger.
- To play defense on the defensemen or midfielders, as an attackman.
- To rely, depend (on).
- Of a ship: to sail, to float on the water.
- In jazz, to play in a steady rhythmical style.
- To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle etc.
- To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.
- To monitor (some component of an audiovisual signal) in order to keep it within acceptable bounds.
- To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.
- To transport (someone) in a vehicle.
- To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle.
- Of clothing: to gradually move (up) and crease; to ruckle.
- To traverse by riding.
- To be carried or supported by something lightly and quickly; to travel in such a way, as though on horseback.
- To mount (someone) to have sex with them; to have sexual intercourse with.
- Of clothing: to rest (in a given way on a part of the body).
noun
- A lift given to someone in another person's vehicle.
- A person (or sometimes a thing or a place) that is visually attractive.
- An amusement ridden at a fair or amusement park.
- An instance of riding.
- A vehicle.
- An act of sexual intercourse
- In jazz, a steady rhythmical style.
- A wild, bewildering experience of some duration.
- A road or avenue cut in a wood, for riding; a bridleway or other wide country path.
noun
- Damage to one's reputation.
- Religious discredit; an act or behaviour which brings a religion into discredit.
- Widespread moral outrage, indignation, as over an offence to decency.
- Defamatory talk; gossip, slander.
- Something which hinders acceptance of religious ideas or behaviour; a stumbling-block or offense.
- An incident or event that disgraces or damages the reputation of the persons or organization involved.
noun
- Someone who tries to damage another's reputation through slander or innuendo.
- Something used for smearing.
- A circuit used to eliminate the overshoot of a pulse.
- Someone who spreads a substance across a surface.
- An unskillful painter.
- A worker employed to apply a tar-based salve to sheep to protect their skin during the winter.
verb
- To annoy (someone) frequently or systematically; to pester.
- To persistently bother (someone, or a group of people) physically or psychologically when such behaviour is illegal and/or unwanted, especially over an extended period.
- To trouble (someone, or a group of people) through repeated military-style attacks.
- To put excessive burdens upon (someone); to subject (someone) to anxieties.
verb
- To insult, to diss.
- To adopt or resolve on, especially in a deliberative assembly
- To notionally transfer from one place (such as a country, book, or column) to another.
- To capture a ship by coming alongside and boarding.
- To have on one's person.
- To have propulsive power; to propel.
- to physically transport (in the general sense, not necessarily by lifting)
- To be pregnant (with).
- To lead or guide.
- To hold the head; said of a horse.
- To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another.
- To be disproportionately responsible for a team's success.
- To bear or uphold successfully through conflict, for example a leader or principle
- To be transmitted; to travel.
- To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting.
- To have a weapon on one's person; to be armed.
- To contain; to comprise; have a particular aspect; to show or exhibit
- To transport (the ball) whilst maintaining possession.
- To adopt (something); take (something) over.
- To stock or supply (something); to have in store.
- To have, hold, possess or maintain (something).
- To convey by extension or continuance; to extend.
- to succeed in (e.g. a contest); to succeed in; to win.
- To have earth or frost stick to the feet when running, as a hare.
- To bear (oneself); to behave or conduct.
- To bear a firearm, such as a gun.
- In an addition, to transfer the quantity in excess of what is countable in the units in a column to the column immediately to the left in order to be added there.
noun
- A manner of transporting or lifting something; the grip or position in which something is carried.
- The distance travelled by the ball when struck, until it hits the ground.
- The bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation.
- Carried interest.
- The benefit or cost of owning an asset over time.
- A tract of land over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a portage.
- The sky; cloud-drift.
verb
- To criticize or label another person or thing.
- To govern as biblical judge or shophet (over some jurisdiction).
- To form an opinion; to infer.
- To judicially rule or determine.
- To arbitrate; to pass opinion on something, especially to settle a dispute etc.
- To sit in judgment, to act as judge.
- To form an opinion on; to appraise.
- To sit in judgment on; to pass sentence on (a person or matter).
- To have as an opinion; to consider, suppose.
noun
- A person who decides the fate of someone or something that has been called into question.
- A person who evaluates something or forms an opinion.
- A person officiating at a sports event, a contest, or similar.
- A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering judgments; a justice.
- A shophet, a temporary leader appointed in times of crisis in ancient Israel.
verb
- To wound the pride of (someone); to excite to anger; to irritate, to offend.
- To excite to action, especially by causing jealousy, resentment, etc.; also, to stimulate an emotion or feeling, especially curiosity or interest.
- To score a pique against (someone).
- To excite (someone) to action, especially by causing jealousy, resentment, etc.; also, to stimulate (an emotion or feeling, especially curiosity or interest).
- To pride (oneself) on something.
- To take pride in.
noun
- Enmity, ill feeling; (countable) a feeling of animosity or a dispute.
- Irritation or resentment awakened by a social injury or slight; offence, especially taken in an emotional sense with little consideration or thought; (countable) especially in fit of pique: a transient feeling of wounded pride.
- In piquet, the right of the elder hand to count thirty in hand, or to play before the adversary counts one.
verb
- To call attention to the flaws of (someone) in either a playful, a taunting, or an insulting way.
- To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.).
- To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.
- To read work(s) written by (a named author).
- Used after a euphemism to introduce the intended, more blunt meaning of a term.
- To imagine sequences of potential moves and responses without actually placing stones.
- To consist of certain text.
- Synonyms: interpret, make out, make sense of, understand, scan
- To speak aloud words or other information that is written. (often construed with a to phrase or an indirect object)
- To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
- To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks.
- To observe and comprehend (a displayed signal).
- Of text, etc., to be interpreted or read in a particular way.
- To substitute (a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one); used to introduce an emendation of a text.
- To recognise (someone) as being transgender.
- To interpret, or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc., from.
noun
- A person's interpretation or impression of something.
- Something to be read; a written work.
- A reading or an act of reading, especially of an actor's part of a play or a piece of stored data.
- The identification of a specific sequence of genes in a genome or bases in a nucleic acid string
- An instance of reading (“calling attention to someone's flaws; a taunt or insult”).
verb
- To disparage; to belittle; to put down; to harshly criticize, especially a work (book, movie, etc.)
- To turn out well; to be successful.
- To join or fit together; to unite.
- To spread a sound signal into a new stereo or multichannel sound field, typically giving the impression that it is moving across the sound stage.
- To beat one's opposition convincingly.
- To move the camera lens angle while continuing to expose the film, enabling a contiguous view and enrichment of context. In still-photography large-group portraits the film usually remains on a horizontal fixed plane as the lens and/or the film holder moves to expose the film laterally. The resulting image may extend a short distance laterally or as great as 360 degrees from the point where the film first began to be exposed.
- To shift an image relative to the display window without changing the viewing scale.
- To wash in a pan (of earth, sand etc. when searching for gold).
- To turn horizontally.
adj
noun
- A pond or lake, considered as the expanse of land upon which the water sits.
- A human face, a mug.
- A part; a portion.
- The part of a flintlock that holds the priming.
- Synonym of playa lake: a temporary pond or lake in a playa.
- A wide, flat receptacle used around the house, especially for cooking.
- Strong adverse criticism.
- A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.
- The contents of such a receptacle.
- A cylindrical receptacle about as tall as it is wide, with one long handle, usually made of metal, used for cooking in the home.
- A leaf of gold or silver.
- A loaf of bread.
- A deep plastic receptacle, used for washing or food preparation; a basin.
- The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.
- The bottom flat part of a roofing panel that is between the ribs of the panel.
- A dry lake or playa, especially a salt flat.
- A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating as part of manufacture; a vacuum pan.
- The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the brainpan.
- The brain, seen as one's intellect.
- A wide receptacle in which gold grains are separated from gravel by washing the contents with water.
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