| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. An act that offends a person's sense of pride or dignity: affront, despite, indignity, insult, offense, outrage, slight. Idioms: slap in the face. See ATTACK. 2. Harsh, often insulting language: abuse, billingsgate, invective, obloquy, railing, revilement, reviling, scurrility, scurrilousness, vituperation. See PRAISE.
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