| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| VERB: | To make defamatory statements about: asperse, backbite, calumniate, defame, slander, slur, tear down, traduce, vilify. Law : libel. Idioms: cast aspersions on. See ATTACK, CRIMES, LAW. | | ADJECTIVE: | 1. Characterized by intense ill will or spite: black, despiteful, evil, hateful, malevolent, malicious, malignant, mean2, nasty, poisonous, spiteful, venomous, vicious, wicked. Slang : bitchy. See ATTITUDE. 2. Strongly suggestive of great harm, menace, or evil: baleful, sinister. See WARN.
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