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Verb
Present participle for to feel or express contempt or disdain for
Present participle for to reject or turn down
Present participle for to ignore or disregard contemptuously
Present participle for to refuse to do something because one is too proud
Present participle for to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is
Present participle for to harshly mock or ridicule
Present participle for to feel distaste for or hostility towards
Present participle for to show an unwillingness to accept, do, engage in, or agree to
Present participle for to reject or refuse advocacy of
Present participle for to show an unwillingness to accept or engage with someone
Present participle for to exercise or express disbelief or doubt
Present participle for to criticize in an abusive or angrily insulting manner
Present participle for to be unwilling to accept an idea or undertaking
Present participle for to face or confront something or someone that is hostile
Present participle for to speak with vulgar, irreverent or profane language
Noun
The act of not paying the proper care or attention to something
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Verb
▲
Present participle for to feel or express contempt or disdain for
disdaining
contemning
disrespecting
dissing
despising
spurning
rejecting
deriding
shunning
abhorring
hating
mocking
belittling
misprizing
scouting
snubbing
reviling
dismissing
gibing
repudiating
sniffing at
sneering at
looking down on
treating with contempt
scoffing at
pouring scorn on
holding in contempt
showing contempt for
heaping scorn on
jeering at
turning down
looking down upon
laughing at
spitting on
running down
turning your nose up at
curling your lip at
spitting in the eye of
spitting in the face of
turning back on
slighting
look down one's nose at
disregarding
regarding with contempt
undervaluing
disparaging
refusing
walking over
pooh-poohing
holding in disdain
flouting
abominating
putting down
stiffing
sneering
cutting
condemning
treating as inferior
cold-shouldering
sneezing at
feeling contempt for
stiff-arming
thumbing nose at
frowning on
lookng down at
more ❯
“They
scorn
him for a foreign policy that has neither mercy nor compassion.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to reject or turn down
rebuffing
snubbing
spurning
rejecting
ignoring
shunning
turning down
disdaining
cold-shouldering
giving someone the brush-off
freezing out
brushing off
giving the cold shoulder
giving someone the go-by
cutting dead
knocking back
slighting
stiff-arming
giving the brush
disregarding
dismissing
ostracizing
US
stiffing
repulsing
cutting
ostracising
UK
sending to Coventry
scouting
repudiating
blanking
neglecting
coldshouldering
refusing
declining
snouting
looking down on
balking at
telling someone where to get off
turning back on
giving the bum's rush
giving the brushoff
steering clear of
giving the cold shoulder to
taking no notice of
not giving time of day
sneezing at
putting down
treating with contempt
contemning
jilting
pooh-poohing
turning your back on
looking past
giving someone the air
leaving out in the cold
giving someone the big E
repelling
turning your nose up at
fending off
sneering at
scoffing at
holding in contempt
chillin
chilling
acting cool
looking through
icing out
cutting out
keeping at arm's length
discounting
diminishing
denigrating
deprecating
discrediting
disparaging
disowning
disclaiming
discarding
telling someone to get lost
brushing aside
casting aside
sweeping aside
avoiding
bilking
ditching
staying clear of
shying from
keeping one's distance from
recoiling from
having no part in
fighting shy of
palming off
giving a wide berth
standing aloof from
shaking off
having no part of
not touching
leaving alone
shying away from
turning away from
staying shy of
keeping clear of
having nothing to do with
giving the runaround
keeping away from
shrinking from
passing up
giving a wide berth to
misprizing
sniffing at
showing disrespect for
turning deaf ear to
looking down upon
shrugging off
blinking at
treating disrespectfully
showing disrespect
making light of
more ❯
“At mealtimes, she would
scorn
the offer of a bedside tray, weak as she was, and walk to the dining room.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to ignore or disregard contemptuously
despising
disregarding
flouting
disdaining
snubbing
disparaging
defying
slighting
spurning
disrespecting
disesteeming
ignoring
disobeying
vilipending
failing
disfavoring
disfavouring
having contempt for
refusing to acknowledge
brushing off
having no use for
pooh-poohing
“It was to be anticipated that he would
scorn
the advice of Mr. Botherum, however skilfully it might have been bestowed.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to refuse to do something because one is too proud
being above
refraining from
refusing to
considering it beneath one
“But there is a large public more discriminating who would
scorn
to be associated with those people we have just named, and yet they share a good number of their tastes.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is
belittling
disparaging
denigrating
deprecating
decrying
minimising
UK
minimizing
US
diminishing
depreciating
derogating
dismissing
discounting
dissing
discrediting
vilipending
trashing
deriding
undervaluing
knocking
defaming
ridiculing
criticising
UK
criticizing
US
degrading
trivialising
UK
trivializing
US
demeaning
underrating
slamming
mocking
panning
underestimating
vilifying
downgrading
rubbishing
slurring
slating
reviling
lowering
maligning
condemning
abusing
misprizing
minifying
bashing
censuring
detracting
aspersing
downplaying
smearing
roasting
dispraising
understating
marginalising
UK
marginalizing
US
squashing
blistering
scorching
ripping
squelching
bad-mouthing
putting down
running down
playing down
trash-talking
scoffing at
pooh-poohing
talking down
slagging off
making light of
crying down
writing off
sneering at
casting aspersions on
detracting from
pouring scorn on
pulling apart
taking down
treating lightly
laughing at
kissing off
dumping on
doing down
laughing off
taking to pieces
having a go at
tearing down
hitting out at
holding cheap
shooting down
dragging through the mud
picking holes in
cutting down to size
doing a hatchet job on
cutting to the quick
taking down a peg
shooting full of holes
taking a swipe at
disdaining
deflating
contemning
look down one's nose at
traducing
insulting
vituperating
selling short
speaking ill of
speaking badly of
devaluing
slandering
cheapening
disgracing
calumniating
rapping
flaming
pulling to pieces
tearing into
demoting
disapproving
libeling
US
impugning
libelling
UK
blasting
attacking
poormouthing
slighting
debasing
disregarding
sneering
scoffing
twitting
taunting
girding
gibing
jeering
denouncing
humbling
faulting
spurning
discountenancing
making little of
slinging mud at
giving comeuppance
knocking off high horse
writing down
putting away
knocking off
bringing down
putting hooks in
finding fault with
looking down on
dishonoring
US
shaming
dishonouring
UK
humiliating
despising
condescending
deigning
demoralising
UK
demoralizing
US
casting down
knocking down
lambasting
besmirching
hammering
excoriating
savaging
pillorying
inveighing against
reproaching
castigating
laying into
assailing
injuring
railing against
skewering
bagging
blackening
pummelling
UK
pummeling
crucifying
sullying
stigmatizing
US
berating
reprobating
stigmatising
UK
scathing
reprehending
staining
slashing
rating
objurgating
smirching
cutting up
giving a black eye
besmearing
damaging
disrespecting
fulminating against
bringing into disrepute
jumping on
blotting
tarnishing
chastising
lacing to
giving a bad name
doing a number on
dragging through the mire
soiling
scandalizing
US
arraigning
defiling
sledging
tainting
scandalising
UK
vituperating against
animadverting on
reprimanding
bringing discredit to
bringing shame upon
spoiling
belaboring
US
throwing brickbats at
muckraking
hurting
spotting
mauling
nitpicking about
blotching
giving a bad press to
belabouring
UK
breathing on
reflecting badly on
potshotting
befouling
bringing shame on
reproving
slagging
carping at
cavilling at
flinging mud at
ripping up and down
giving some stick to
rebuking
reducing
offending
oppressing
dressing down
upbraiding
persecuting
finding fault
disapproving of
tarring and feathering
blaming
giving flak to
casting a slur on
running smear campaign
spreading scandal about
maltreating
mistreating
cutting down
blackening the name of
scolding
chiding
wounding
harming
cursing
flaying
lashing
denunciating
slanging
wronging
aggrieving
trespassing
bawling out
ill-treating
throwing mud at
throwing shade
doing an injustice to
coming down on
taking to task
offending against
picking to pieces
doing wrong to
doing the dirty on
bagging on
carpeting
caning
blemishing
haranguing
anathematizing
speaking evil of
embarrassing
undermining
poisoning
chewing out
nit-picking
spreading lies about
calling names
sullying the reputation of
picking at
tearing to shreds
giving someone hell
tearing a strip off
doing injury to
doing a disservice to
going for the jugular
giving someone a roasting
taking advantage of
tearing to pieces
tearing off a strip
imposing upon
nagging at
outraging
teasing
abasing
railing
misrepresenting
zinging
deploring
execrating
prejudicing
nitpicking
judging
fustigating
miscalling
hitting
clobbering
zapping
slugging
treating disrespectfully
skinning alive
skinning
sailing into
blackening the reputation of
reading the riot act
conducting a smear campaign against
showing up
hauling over the coals
ripping up
getting at
finding lacking
giving a rocket
giving someone a bad press
blackening the character of
nitpicking over
passing strictures upon
bad mouthing
passing judgment
nagging
badmouthing
proscribing
scourging
admonishing
harshing
bollocking
rejecting
refuting
ruining
blackguarding
lampooning
rollicking
discommending
objecting
backbiting
riding
hosing
gossiping about
carping
pitching into
affronting
destroying
snubbing
annoying
getting angry with
jumping down someone's throat
taking apart
provoking
distressing
declaiming
prosecuting
lashing out at
branding
slogging
inveighing
fluffing
trimming
blowing off
cussing out
swearing at
shouting at
indicting
ostracising
UK
ostracizing
US
impeaching
aggravating
taking a dig at
tearing apart
animadverting upon
criticizing severely
slinging mud
lashing into
speaking of with disfavour
having a pop at
assaulting verbally
arguing with
insinuating
dragging someone's name through the mud
dragging through mud
disagreeing with
upsetting
hurling insults at
ranting at
mortifying
complaining about
reaming out
remonstrating with
piling in
criticizing unfairly
giving black eye
starting on
starting in
giving the business
cutting to bits
giving bad press
declaiming against
slapping
protesting against
objecting to
taking on
giving something a bad press
calling out
charging with
injuring one's reputation
damaging one's good name
doing wrong by
causing harm to
jumping on one's case
snapping someone's head off
rapping over the knuckles
biting someone's head off
hitting where one lives
giving someone a bollocking
lashing out
giving someone a rollicking
jumping down one's throat
disobliging
irritating
chastening
sinking
giving offence to
animadverting
fouling
complaining
causing offence to
exposing
cutting dead
accusing
disfavouring
disfavoring
hurting somebody's feelings
growling
riling
compromising
disesteeming
stepping on one's toes
telling off
marking down
sniping at
taking swipe at
tongue-lashing
putting in a bad light
giving someone a dressing-down
lighting to
tying into
showing in a bad light
yelling at
beating up on
ripping into
barking at
bringing into disfavour
blackening someone's name
cheating
ill-using
sinning against
demonizing
US
jinxing
digging
demonising
UK
calling down
ragging on
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to harshly mock or ridicule
deriding
mocking
ridiculing
taunting
jeering
ribbing
gibing
kidding
ragging
twitting
chaffing
lampooning
satirising
UK
satirizing
US
sneering
razzing
scoffing
insulting
disdaining
roasting
slighting
quizzing
scouting
bantering
flouting
disparaging
dissing
pillorying
jibing
skewering
contemning
panning
tormenting
dismissing
denigrating
knocking
slamming
detracting
louting
vilifying
scoffing at
laughing at
jeering at
making fun of
sneering at
poking fun at
jibing at
pooh-poohing
ragging on
poking mullock at
making sport of
putting down
taking the mickey
treating with contempt
heaping scorn on
holding up to ridicule
pouring scorn on
flouting at
shooting down
dumping on
taking the piss out of
detracting from
doing a number on
teasing
rallying
affronting
belittling
making jokes about
joshing
heckling
fleering
goofing on
girding
slinging off at
chiacking
booing
hooting
winding up
needling
riding
sending up
hazing
quipping
outraging
jesting
treating contemptuously
catcalling
hissing
humiliating
discounting
caricaturing
despising
gibing at
sniffing at
laughing out of court
showing up
blowing raspberries
shouting down
making a fool of
making a monkey of
offending
jiving
reviling
slapping
disrespecting
jabbing
digging
japing
guying
spurning
underrating
burlesquing
parodying
slurring
laughing
decrying
barracking
ranking out
quipping at
sneezing at
whistling
holding in contempt
giving Bronx cheer
looking down on
shrieking
running down
turning up one's nose
howling
railing at
showing contempt for
making light of
thumbing nose at
holding up to shame
making a game of
showing contempt
making a monkey out of
wounding
joking
rotting
discrediting
imitating
cracking
dumping
travestying
swiping
sniggering
tearing to pieces
sniggering at
snickering at
cutting down
mimicking
treating with disdain
smiling at
taking off
making a joke of
slagging off
hollering
trash-talking
raspberrying
provoking
hassling
baiting
bothering
fleering at
scouting at
cartooning
digging at
deflating
unmasking
exposing
goading
abusing
interrupting
sledging
reproaching
hectoring
disregarding
sniping
upbraiding
rejecting
rebuffing
repudiating
twittering
wiping
playing down
taking a swipe at
having a crack at
shouting
pulling one's leg
shouting disapproval
making a laughing-stock
making someone a laughing stock
exposing to ridicule
poking borack
screaming
shouting at
getting at
making cutting remarks about
saying contemptuously
calling names
putting on
crying
yelling
catcalling at
booing at
giving a hard time
swipeing at
curling your lip at
turning your nose up at
poking fun
brushing aside
making a crack
whistling at
making little of
slam dunking
holding up to scorn
expressing contempt
waving aside
roaring
whooping
guffawing
crying out
funning
smoking
jollying
shucking
having on
picking on
wisecracking
gagging
spoofing
pulling someone's leg
poking borak at
pestering
fooling
annoying
harrying
yukking
yucking
harassing
messing around
badgering
irritating
aggravating
dogging
squibbing
messing with
frazzling
plaguing
worrying
censuring
having a joke with
punning
sallying
bedeviling
US
bedevilling
UK
gnawing
leading on
vexing
snapping
deviling
disturbing
importuning
nudging
flirting with
sounding
devilling
beleaguering
pasquinading
railing
pretending
playing
fooling around
fooling about
doing
impersonating
aping
copying
miming
distorting
perverting
exaggerating
misrepresenting
doing an impression of
doing a takeoff of
pulling someone's chain
pranking
flipping
entertaining
diverting
joking with
amusing
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to feel distaste for or hostility towards
disliking
hating
loathing
abhorring
despising
detesting
shunning
abominating
disfavouring
disrelishing
execrating
opposing
resenting
deploring
disfavoring
misliking
antipathizing
condemning
contemning
deprecating
disapproving
eschewing
minding
reproving
discountenancing
disesteeming
regretting
relucting
disapproving of
objecting to
disagreeing with
finding repellent
frowning upon
recoiling from
shrinking from
shuddering at
taking exception to
frowning on
having no liking for
holding in disfavour
finding distasteful
finding intolerable
not appreciating
not taking kindly to
regarding with disgust
regarding with distaste
having an aversion to
looking down on
not enduring
losing interest in
taking a dim view of
bearing malice toward
having hard feelings
having no stomach for
having no taste
having no taste for
not caring for
having a down on
making faces at
tutting about
tutting over
tut-tutting about
tut-tutting over
disdaining
spurning
having no use for
regarding with contempt
disliking greatly
finding unacceptable
looking askance at
thinking wrong
look down one's nose at
having it in for
feeling hostile towards
feeling revulsion towards
feeling aversion towards
feeling malice to
bearing a grudge against
reviling
misprizing
passing on
having a poor opinion of
taking dim view of
having a problem with
regarding with repugnance
feeling aversion to
feeling hostility to
discommending
discouraging
resisting
feeling contempt for
feeling contempt
not standing for
sneering at
viewing with disfavour
viewing with dislike
having a low opinion of
holding no brief for
turning your nose up at
looking down upon
pooh-poohing
holding in disdain
not going for
lookng down at
not thinking much of
treating with contempt
rejecting
repudiating
refusing
revolting
declining
feeling repugnance towards
feeling repugnance
finding disgusting
having a strong aversion to
having aversion to
feeling disgust for
having a horror of
disliking intensely
feeling distaste for
feeling revulsion to
distasting
dreading
fearing
denouncing
vilifying
vilipending
feeling repelled by
feeling hostile to
excoriating
apprecihating
slamming
decrying
anathematizing
cursing
feeling hostility toward
feeling repugnance toward
feeling animosity to
feeling disgust towards
feeling aversion toward
downing on
feeling hostility towards
begrudging
grudging
feeling aggrieved about
feeling bitter about
complaining about
holding against
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to show an unwillingness to accept, do, engage in, or agree to
refusing
declining
rejecting
spurning
repudiating
rebuffing
disapproving
disdaining
dismissing
negating
negativing
nixing
reprobating
snubbing
passing
repelling
repulsing
shunning
withdrawing
demurring
deselecting
desisting
ignoring
protesting
turning down
passing up
throwing out
knocking back
saying no
balking at
baulking at
brushing off
dispensing with
saying no to
turning away
demurring at
holding back
holding off
holding out
protesting at
setting aside
throwing over
turning from
giving thumbs down to
turning back on
turning deaf ear to
jibbing at
sending off
drawing the line at
not buying
refusing to receive
not caring for
shaking one's head
vetoing
denying
forbidding
disallowing
revoking
blocking
interdicting
preventing
prohibiting
withholding
discountenancing
opposing
passing on
giving the thumbs down to
giving the red light to
shooting down
giving something a miss
ruling out
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to reject or refuse advocacy of
disavowing
renouncing
repudiating
abjuring
forswearing
disowning
rejecting
eschewing
rebuffing
refusing
disacknowledging
disallowing
impugning
washing your hands of
refusing to recognize
refusing to abide by
Verb
▲
Present participle for to show an unwillingness to accept or engage with someone
rejecting
spurning
rebuffing
shunning
blackballing
cutting
ostracising
UK
ostracizing
US
snubbing
blacklisting
deserting
ignoring
jilting
abjuring
abnegating
blanking
discounting
disdaining
dropping
excluding
excommunicating
forsaking
repelling
repulsing
despising
disfellowshipping
disfellowshiping
disowning
unfollowing
unfriending
casting aside
cold-shouldering
shutting out
casting out
cutting off
breaking with
cutting dead
swearing off
binning off
freezing out
leaving off
putting down
giving the cold shoulder
having nothing to do with
giving a wide berth to
giving someone the brush-off
giving someone the go-by
giving someone the push
giving the elbow
having nothing more to do with
leaving out in the cold
giving someone the air
giving someone the big E
sending to Coventry
handing someone the frozen mitt
repudiating
othering
not including
coldshouldering
disavowing
leaving out
eschewing
renouncing
refusing to abide by
refusing to recognize
banning
barring
embargoing
debarring
boycotting
canceling
US
cancelling
UK
disallowing
expelling
avoiding
blacking
removing
evicting
ousting
drumming out
keeping out
throwing out
getting rid of
forcing out
giving the cold shoulder to
prohibiting
vetoing
interdicting
proscribing
outlawing
refusing
holding aloof from
washing your hands of
striking
brushing off
placing an embargo on
imposing sanctions
refraining from
steering clear of
abstaining from
passing by
icing out
turning your back on
staying away from
withholding patronage
passing up
refusing to take part in
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Present participle for to exercise or express disbelief or doubt
discrediting
mistrusting
disbelieving
suspecting
doubting
distrusting
discounting
questioning
rejecting
negating
unbelieving
denying
not believing
giving no credence to
not accepting
not buying
not swallowing
scoffing at
contradicting
repudiating
challenging
scouting
eschewing
not crediting
having no faith in
having no confidence in
taking with a pinch of salt
misdoubting
having misgivings about
disbelieving in
smelling a rat
regarding with suspicion
having doubts about
misbelieving
misgiving
harboring suspicion
having suspicions about
scrupling over
having reservations
having qualms
feeling apprehensive about
giving no credence
skepticizing
casting doubt on
feeling uneasy about
having reservations about
lacking confidence in
looking askance at
taking with a grain of salt
wondering about
Verb
▲
Present participle for to criticize in an abusive or angrily insulting manner
reviling
castigating
criticising
UK
criticizing
US
censuring
lambasting
vilifying
condemning
berating
attacking
reproaching
scolding
slamming
hammering
reprimanding
vituperating
knocking
denouncing
slating
excoriating
reproving
admonishing
savaging
chiding
bashing
panning
rubbishing
flaying
lecturing
smearing
crucifying
pummelling
UK
pummeling
reprobating
bagging
skewering
stigmatising
UK
stigmatizing
US
reaming
laying into
railing against
inveighing against
running down
tongue-lashing
taking apart
taking to pieces
giving a talking-to
raking over the coals
vituperating against
laying down the law
casting a slur on
abusing
denigrating
disparaging
assailing
blaming
rebuking
upbraiding
chastising
carpeting
blasting
objurgating
bollocking
haranguing
pillorying
slashing
disciplining
impugning
exprobating
rollicking
caviling
US
cavilling
UK
aspersing
incriminating
ostracizing
US
remonstrating
contemning
backbiting
animadverting
rebuffing
ostracising
UK
dressing down
telling off
bawling out
chewing out
taking to task
remonstrating with
hauling over the coals
reaming out
tearing into
reading the riot act
giving a rocket
giving someone a roasting
rapping over the knuckles
giving someone a bollocking
tearing off a strip
fulminating against
sailing into
getting after
tearing a strip off
putting down
looking askance
carping at
giving someone a rollicking
cutting up
picking apart
giving someone hell
rating
ranting at
railing at
ragging
having a go at
basting
calling down
keelhauling
scoring
jawing
lacing to
reprehending
slagging off
maligning
bad-mouthing
dissing
roasting
finding fault with
giving someone a dressing-down
ticking off
pitching into
pulling to pieces
rapping
pulling apart
trimming
letting someone have it
casting aspersions on
coming down on
giving someone a telling-off
trashing
deprecating
slurring
derogating
flaming
giving someone a wigging
giving someone what for
giving someone an earful
jumping on
pouring scorn on
hitting out at
arraigning
pulling up
giving someone a mouthful
giving someone a row
giving someone a rating
giving someone a caning
wigging
besmirching
animadverting on
rowing
slapping down
picking holes in
nitpicking about
giving someone some stick
giving a bad press to
throwing brickbats at
railing
scathing
giving some stick to
cavilling at
mauling
decrying
belaboring
US
chastening
putting on the mat
sending someone away with a flea in their ear
giving flak to
blowing up
disapproving of
belabouring
UK
ripping
discrediting
nagging
lashing
blistering
blowing up at
slapping someone's wrist
lighting to
scorching
defaming
insulting
calumniating
traducing
vilipending
potshotting
jumping down one's throat
finding fault
slagging
calling on the carpet
faulting
denunciating
yelling at
bagging on
execrating
sledging
belittling
slandering
cursing
cutting down
slanging
doing a hatchet job on
dumping on
tearing to shreds
picking at
doing down
hitting
anathematizing
criticizing severely
ripping into
taking down
nit-picking
declaiming
libeling
US
libelling
UK
inveighing
slighting
disgracing
cautioning
giving the business
deriding
taking to the woodshed
accusing
going on at
skinning
giving a bad name
caning
bringing into disrepute
lashing out at
spreading lies about
throwing mud at
monishing
nitpicking
finding lacking
giving a piece of one's mind
sullying the reputation of
throwing shade
lessoning
trouncing
bringing to book
blackening the reputation of
speaking evil of
passing strictures upon
tearing to pieces
jawboning
protesting against
lashing into
doing a number on
nitpicking over
picking to pieces
raking
climbing all over
biting someone's head off
zapping
punishing
tearing apart
judging
scoffing at
conducting a smear campaign against
animadverting upon
passing judgment
getting at
dragging through the mud
deploring
dispraising
leaning on
crying down
speaking ill of
blackening the name of
preaching
scourging
nagging at
speaking badly of
feruling
giving a tongue-lashing
getting angry with
exprobrating
raking over coals
laying out
dragging over the coals
rapping someone the knuckles
shooting down
attasking
calling to account
raving at
criticizing harshly
sending someone away with a flea in his
giving the dickens
checking
lowering the boom
ridiculing
lampooning
calling over the coals
striking
cudgeling
US
shellacking
slapping
cudgelling
UK
smothering
chewing
cussing out
jumping all over
criticizing hatefully
shouting at
giving one hell
eating out
giving someone a carpeting
moralising
UK
giving piece of mind
ranking on
giving going-over
moralizing
US
discommending
objecting
objecting to
depreciating
diminishing
snapping someone's head off
carping on
sounding off
opposing
frying
going after
twitting
pointing the finger
giving comeuppance
giving the devil
dishonoring
US
dishonouring
UK
laying on
calling to task
expressing disapproval of
minimizing
US
dismissing
discounting
slogging
cutting to bits
fustigating
carping
fluffing
clobbering
complaining about
skinning alive
slugging
giving bad press
advising
throwing the book at
warning
strongly criticizing
talking to
rapping on knuckles
coming down hard on
telling a thing or two
counseling
US
giving someone stick
speaking
adjuring
giving a going over
slapping on wrist
drawing the line
coming down on like a ton of bricks
counselling
UK
correcting
barking at
growling
tying into
riling
beating up on
blackening
undervaluing
lowering
underrating
kissing off
trash-talking
talking down
underestimating
writing off
marking down
minimising
UK
devaluing
complaining
detracting
playing down
sniping at
downgrading
taking swipe at
debasing
demonizing
US
ripping up
giving a black eye
demonising
UK
ragging on
jinxing
digging
tearing down
letting fly
exploding
erupting with anger
keeping nothing back
raging
ranting
spouting
threaping
recriminating
keeping after
jumping down someone's throat
taunting
having someone on the carpet
expostulating
storming
proscribing
thundering
rejecting
protesting
declaiming against
giving something a bad press
calling out
indicting
charging with
showing up
impeaching
prosecuting
mouthing off about
fulminating
making a stand
huffing
fuming
going on about
swearing at
raving
taking a stand
kicking up a fuss about
kicking up a stink about
speaking out
vociferating about
ranting and raving
calling names
hurling insults at
rapping across the knuckles
having words
severely reprimanding
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▲
Present participle for to be unwilling to accept an idea or undertaking
baulking
UK
balking
US
eschewing
desisting
disdaining
jibbing
resisting
shrinking from
refusing
demurring from
quailing at
refusing to
shying away
drawing back from
jibbing at
reining in
scrupling to
shying from
stopping short
turning down
hating to
taking exception to
drawing the line at
Verb
▲
Present participle for to face or confront something or someone that is hostile
daring
braving
confronting
facing
defying
bearding
brazening
breasting
outfacing
outbraving
meeting
opposing
outdaring
resisting
laughing at
mustering courage
squaring off
making my day
running the gauntlet
taking on
knocking chip off shoulder
stepping over the line
challenging
withstanding
tackling
attacking
accosting
waylaying
approaching
repelling
flouting
affronting
assaulting
facing down
meeting head-on
facing up to
coming to grips
coming face to face with
going one-on-one
squaring up to
coming up against
taking aside
getting to grips
calling out
going up against
standing up to
facing with
encountering
fighting
battling
engaging
enduring
grappling with
bearing
tolerating
coping with
standing
taking
weathering
staring down
sustaining
standing up against
contesting
suffering
riding out
living through
competing against
combatting
combating
contending
putting up with
dealing with
brazening out
contending with
clashing with
doing battle with
outstaring
prevailing against
standing fast
vying with
standing your ground
swallowing
risking
crossing
competing
rivalling
UK
rivaling
US
stomaching
vying
meeting eyeball-to-eyeball
calling someone's bluff
skirmishing with
meeting head on
facing out
staring out
flying in face of
facing off against
struggling against
holding your own
staying the course
hanging tough
sticking to your guns
sticking fast
holding the line against
persevering in the face of
going the distance against
holding out
remaining firm
standing firm
undergoing
browbeating
intimidating
cowing
overawing
handling
experiencing
dueling
US
duelling
UK
surviving
tangling
playing
sitting through
countenancing
courting
battling with
bucking
abiding
brooking
allowing
sticking out
venturing
going through
subjecting oneself to
bearing the brunt of
grinning and bear
resigning oneself to
submitting to
taking up the gauntlet
striving against
waging war against
flying in the face of
sitting and taking it
contending against
taking up arms against
squaring up
crossing swords with
competing with
accepting a challenge
facing up
psyching out
hanging on
bracing oneself for
braving out
squaring off against
living out
throwing down the gauntlet
colliding with
assuming
shouldering
engaging with
supporting
getting into conflict with
struggling with
eyeballing
scrimmaging with
coming to blows with
shooting it out with
putting up a fight
fighting back against
warring against
locking horns with
accepting
admitting
submitting oneself to
permitting
carrying
tholing
meeting with
bearing with
toughing out
living with
coming to grips with
attempting
bracing for
biding
sweating out
hacking
wrestling
playing against
looking straight in the eye
coming into conflict with
making a stand
clashing
countering
matching
pitting
wrangling
sparring
jousting
thwarting
contenting against
disputing
taking one up on
taking up
taking a dare
taking the bull by the horns
locking horns
messing with
sticking
bracing
assailing
crossing swords
traversing
going up against in contest
going head to head
tussling with
pitting oneself against
waging war
trying to beat
violating
coping
going eyeball to eyeball with
going toe to toe with
going one on one with
fighting with
questioning
launching
setting upon
striking
beginning battle with
interviewing
holding out against
wresting with
scrapping with
bearing up against
taking a chance with
taking a chance on
defying danger
taking the plunge
holding off
standing firm against
falling on
entering into combat with
mounting an attack on
holding your ground
not giving up
putting up struggle
taking a plunge
taking a flyer
taking a chance
taking a header
taking it
winning out
going snake
waging war on
cross-examining
coming to close quarters with
joining battle with
giving battle to
speaking to
losing it
freaking out
going on a rampage
fronting
discussing something with
remonstrating with
initiating a discussion with
taking a stand against
treating with contempt
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▲
Present participle for to speak with vulgar, irreverent or profane language
profaning
cursing
swearing
cussing
reviling
darning
flaming
hoodooing
mocking
voodooing
talking dirty
Noun
▲
The act of not paying the proper care or attention to something
neglect
disregard
heedlessness
oversight
disdaining
ignoring
overlooking
default
disregardance
inadvertence
inconsideration
rebuff
scorn
spurning
thoughtlessness
coolness
desertion
inattention
indifference
indifference to
inattention to
failure to pay attention to
lack of care
unmindfulness
oblivion
unconsciousness
carelessness
obliviousness
insensibility
unconcern
slighting
contempt
insensibleness
lack of attention
amnesia
lack of notice
lack of heed
non-observance
unawareness
ignorance
nirvana
forgetfulness
Lethe
negligence
nonchalance
insouciance
casualness
complacence
disinterestedness
torpor
apathy
disinterest
disrespect
disdain
incuriousness
incuriosity
forgetting
omitting
disfavor
US
neglecting
disfavour
UK
omission
slight
lassitude
disesteem
brush-off
cold shoulder
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