Criticize/criticism

1. aspersion – a) a damaging or derogatory remark or criticism, slander (to cast aspersions); b) the act of slandering, vilification, defamation, calumniation, derogation; c) a shower or spray, a sprinkling, as in a baptism

2. calumny – a) a false and malicious statement designed to injure the reputation of someone or something; b) the act of uttering calumnies, slander, defamation; c) libel, vilification, calumniation, derogation

3. defamation – a) the act of defaming, false or unjustified injury of the good reputation of another, as by slander or libel, calumny

4. diatribe – a) a bitter, sharply abusive denunciation, attack or criticism (from Latin diatribein, to rub away); b) tirade, harangue

5. gainsay – a) to deny, dispute or contradict; b) to speak or act against, oppose

6. inveigh – a) to protest strongly or attack with words, rail against; b) to attack with words, harangue, revile

7. objurgate – a) to reproach or denounce vehemently, upbraid harshly, berate sharply; b) to rebuke

8. remonstrate – a) to say or plead in protest, objection or disapproval; b) to present reasons in complaint, to plead in protest; c) to argue, object, expostulate

9. reprove – a) to criticize or correct, esp. gently; b) to disapprove of strongly, censure; c) to disprove or refute

10. vituperate – a) to use or address ith harsh or abusive language, revile; b) to censure, vilify, berate

11. belittle – a) to regard or portray as less impressive or important than appearances indicate, depreciate, disparage; b) minimize, decry, deprecate, deride, scorn, dismiss

12. castigate – a) to criticize or reprimand severely; b) to punish in order to correct; c) to scold, reprove, discipline, chastise, chasten

13. denounce – a) to condemn or censure openly or publicly; b) to make a formal accusation against, as to the police or in a court; c) to give formal notice of the termination or denial of (a treaty, pact or agreement); d) to attack, stigmatize, blame, brand

14. disparage – a) to speak of or treat slightingly, depreciate, belittle; b) to bring reproach or discredit upon, lower the estimation of; c) to ridicule, discredit, mock, demean, denounce, derogate

15. harangue – a) a scolding or a long, intense verbal attack; b) a long, passionate, vehement speech, esp. one delivered before a public gathering

16. lambaste – a) to beat or whip severely; b) to reprimand or berate harshly, to censure, excoriate

17. opprobrium – a) the disgrace or the reproach incurred by conduct considered outrageously shameful, infamy; b) a cause or object of such disgrace or reproach

18. rebuke – to express sharp, stern disapproval of, reprove, reprimand; b) censure, upbraid, chide, admonish, reproach, remonstration, censure

19. revile – to assail with contemptuous or opprobrious language; address or speak of abusively; b) to speak abusively, vilify, vituperate, berate, disparage

20. berate – a) to scold or rebuke; b) abuse, vilify, vituperate, objurgate

21. decry – a) to speak disparagingly of, denounce as faulty or worthless; b) belittle, disparage, discredit, depreciate, minimize; c) expression of censure of disapproval; d) to express one’s vigorous disapproval of or to denounce

22. deride – a) to laugh at in scorn or contempt; b) to scoff at, jeer, mock, taunt, flout, gibe, banter, rally, ridicule

23. excoriate – a) to denounce or berate severely, flay verbally; b) to strip of or remove the skin from

24. impugn – a) to challenge as false (another’s statements, motives, etc.), cast doubt upon; b) to assail (attack) by words or arguments; c) to attack a person physically

25. obloquy – a) censure, blame or abusive language aimed at a person or thing, esp. by numerous persons or by the general public; b) discredit, disgrace or bad repute resulting from public blame, abuse or denunciation c) reproach, calumny, aspersion, revilement

26. pillory – a) to set up in a pillory, i.e. a wooden framework erected on a post, with holes for securing the head and hands, formerly used to expose an offender to public derision; b) to expose to public ridicule or abuse

27. reprehend – a) to reprove or find fault with, rebuke, censure, blame; b) to reproach, upbraid, chide, admonish

28. tirade – a) a prolonged outburst of bitter, outspoken denunciation; b) a long, vehement speech; c) harangue, diatribe

29. censure – a) strong or vehement expression of disapproval; b) an official reprimand, as of a legislative body, of one of its members; c) to criticize or reproach in a harsh manner; d) reprove, rebuke, chide, demonstrate animadversion

30. censorious – a) severely critical, fault-finding, carping

31. denigrate – a) expression of censure or disapproval; b) to speak damagingly of, to criticize in derogative terms

32. derogate – a) expression of censure or disapproval; b) to speak in such a way as to decrease the status, high quality or good reputation of someone or something, making the person or object seem of less value

CAROUSAL

1. bacchanalian – a) pertaining to Bacchus (Dionysis), the god of wine; b) characterized by drunken revelry; c) saturnalia, debauch, spree, carousal, orgy

2. iniquity – a) gross injustice or wickedness; b) a violation of right or duty, wicked; c) evildoing, knavery, infamy, depravity

3. licentious – a) sexually unrestrained, lascivious, libertine, lewd; b) unrestrained by law or general morality, lawless, immoral; c) going beyond customary bounds or proper limits, disregarding rules; d) abandoned, profligate

4. salacious – a) lustful or lecherous; b) obscene, grossly indecent; c) lewd, wanton, lascivious, libidinous

5. depraved – a) corrupt, wicked, perverted; b) evil, sinful, debased, reprobate, degenerate, dissolute, profligate, licentious, lewd

6. libertine – a) a person who is morally or sexually unrestrained, esp. a dissolute person, a profligate, a rake; b) a freethinker in religious matters; c) a person freed from slavery in ancient Rome; d) roué, debauchee, lecher, sensualist, amoral, sensual, lascivious, lewd

7. reprobate – a) a depraved, unprincipled or wicked person; b) a person rejected by G-d and beyond all hope of salvation; c) to disapprove, condemn or censure; d) noun form – tramp, scoundrel, wastrel, miscreant, wretch, rascal, cad, rogue, outcast, pariah;

8. sordid – a) morally ignoble or base, vile; b) meanly selfish, self-seeking or mercenary; c) squalid, wretchedly poor or run down; d) degraded, depraved, e) avaricious, tight, close, stingy; f) soiled, unclean, foul

9. dissipated – a) indulging in or characterized by excessive devotion to pleasure, intemperate, dissolute

10. libidinous – a) full of sexual lust, lustful, lewd, lascivious; b) characterized by favoring the libido, i.e. the psychological locus of all sexual desires and drives

11. ribald – a) vulgar or indecent in speech or language, coarsely mocking, abusive or irreverent, scurrilous; b) indecent, obscene, gross

12. turpitude – a) vile, shameless or base character, depravity; b) vile or depraved act, c) wickedness, vice, vileness, wrongdoing

TRUTH

1. candor – a) the state or quality of being frank, open and sincere in speech or language; b) freedom from bias, fairness, impartiality; c) openness, truthfulness, frankness, honesty

2. indisputable – a) not disputable or deniable, incontestable; b) unquestionably real, valid or the like; c) incontrovertible, undeniable, incontestable, unquestionable, evident, apparent, obvious, certain

3. probity – a) integrity and uprightness, honesty, rectitude, from Latin probitas, uprightness

4. verity – a) the state or quality of being true, accordance with fact or reality; b) something that is true as a principle, belief, idea or statement

5. fealty – a) fidelity to a lord (in feudal society); b) obligation to be sworn to a lord, usually sworn to by a vassal; c) fidelity, faithfulness, loyalty, devotion

6. indubitable – a) that cannot be doubted; b) patently evident or certain, unquestionable

7. sincere – a) free of deceit, hypocrisy or falseness, earnest; b) genuine, real; c) pure, clean, unadulterated, untainted; d) frank, candid, honest, open, guileless, unaffected

8. frankness – a) plainness of speech, candor, openness

9. legitimate – a) according to the law, lawful, in accordance with established rules, principles, standards; b) to justify, sanction or authorize; c) not spurious or unjustified, genuine; d) legal, licit, sanctioned, valid

10. veracious – a) habitually speaking the truth, truthful, honest; b) characterized by truthfulness, accuracy, or honesty in content; c) having integrity or credibility

FALSEHOOD

1. apocryphal – a) of doubtful authorship or authenticity; b) of doubtful sanction, uncanonical; c) false, spurious

2. dissemble – a) to give a false or misleading appearance; b) to conceal the true or real nature of; c) to put on the appearance of, to feign; d) to conceal one’s true motives, thoughts by some pretense, to speak or act hypocritically; e) mask, hide, camouflage, dissimulate

3. erroneous – a) containing error, incorrect, mistaken, wrong; b) straying from what is moral, decent or proper; c) inaccurate, untrue, false

4. feigned – a) pretended, sham, counterfeit; b) assumed, fictitious, disguised

5. specious – a) apparently good or right though lacking any real merit; b) superficially pleasing or plausible; c) deceptively pleasing to the eye; d)

6. canard – a) a false or baseless, usually derogatory story, report or rumor

7. duplicity – a) deceitfulness in speech or conduct; b) speaking or acting in two different ways concerning the same manner with the intention to deceive; double-dealing, deception, dissimulation

8. ersatz – a) serving as a substitute, synthetic, artificial; b) an artificial substance that has been put in place of a naturalor genuine one

9. guile – a) insidious cunning in attaining a goal; b) crafty or artful deception, duplicity; c) trickery, fraud, craft

10. perfidy – a) deliberate breach of faith or trust; b) faithlessness, treachery; c) disloyalty

11. spurious – a) not genuine, authentic or truth, not from the claimed, pretended or proper source; b) of illegitimate birth, bastard; c) false, sham, bogus, mock, feigned, phony, meretricious, deceitful

12. chicanery – a) trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry; b) a quibble or subterfuge used to trick, deceive or evade; c) fraud, deception, knavery, evasion

13. equivocate – a) to use ambiguous or unclear expressions, usually to avoid commitment or in order to mislead; b) prevaricate, hedge, evade, stall, dodge

14. fallacious – a) containing a fallacy, logically unsound; b) deceptive, misleading, disappointment, delusive

15. mendacious – a) telling lies, esp. habitually; b) lying, untruthful, false, untrue

16. prevaricate - a) to speak falsely or misleadingly, deliberately misstate or create a false impression; c) to evade, to shift

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