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Noun
▲
The act of disparaging or belittling
disparagement
deprecation
abuse
defamation
denigration
innuendo
misrepresentation
slander
aspersion
belittlement
calumny
insinuation
muckraking
vituperation
running down
scandalmongering
scurrility
traducement
depreciation
derogation
diminishment
put-down
backbiting
backstabbing
damage
disesteem
harm
hit
hurt
injury
injustice
knock
libel
libellingUK
libelingUS
lie
maligning
minimization
obloquy
pejorative
revilement
ridicule
scandal
slam
tale
traducing
vilification
wrong
smear campaign
verbal disapproval
nit-picking
tirade
reprimand
rebuke
admonition
diatribe
harangue
stricture
lecture
disapproval
dressing-down
railing
broadside
philippic
telling-off
wigging
reprehension
remonstration
rant
disapprobation
rocket
complaint
polemic
bashing
talking-to
scurrilousness
arraignment
brickbat
blast
jeremiad
verbal onslaught
inculpation
indictment
charge
imputation
incrimination
denouncement
insolence
implication
opposition
sideswipe
decrying
commination
repudiation
brickbats
curses
impeachment
riot act
carpeting
attribution
expostulation
rollicking
objection
telling off
rudeness
exprobation
roasting
sarcasm
epithet
ticking off
foul language
discourse
slap
screed
stream of abuse
verbal attack
chewing out
dressing down
jibe
battering
earful
venom
discourtesy
impertinence
outburst
swearing
swipe
affront
expletives
impugnment
barb
sermon
dig
outrage
swear words
cursing
dis
personality
diss
cut
gird
name
dart
poke
hassle
rap over the knuckles
signifying
blasphemy
blemish
ticking-off
disrespect
censoriousness
hostility
protest
bawling-out
complaints
harsh criticism
discipline
slanderousness
obscenity
indecency
exchange
screen
arrogance
malapertness
remark
coarseness
offensiveness
anger
ranting
dispute
vociferation
onslaught
disputation
infamousness
abusiveness
grossness
heat
going-over
bad language
philippics
pan
sideswipes
aggravation
discharge
warning
curse
intimidation
damning
upbraidment
malicious statement
false insinuation
address
speech
counterblast
stain
slap on the wrists
rap on the knuckles
exposé
slandering
serve
moralism
preachment
preaching
fulminations
declamation
oration
homily
rating
exhortation
slights
source of discredit
persecution
talk
peroration
a bad press
malevolence
assault
mauling
savaging
slap on the wrist
indignities
jibes
blur
expose
zinger
bar sinister
demean
besmirch
spiel
argument
rebukes
confrontation
slanging
jab
potshot
caning
bollocking
pugnacity
defilement
quinine
knifing
hosing
vulgarity
ribaldry
put-downs
combativeness
spouting
name-calling
a slanging match
kicking around
trash talk
pushing around
snub
disagreement
belligerence
pep talk
reading out
abusive language
coarse words
foul talk
rough language
abusive talk
verbal assault
sledge
abusive remark
slap in the face
superciliousness
impudence
despite
taunt
unpleasantry
mockery
kick in the teeth
incivility
disdainfulness
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Noun
▲
The removal or decrease of something
deduction
diminution
lessening
reduction
subtraction
taking away
decrease
discount
deletion
debit
subduction
removal
decline
withdrawal
contraction
dwindling
weakening
waning
ebbing
erosion
shrinkage
slackening
let-up
moderation
slowing down
minimization
de-escalation
abatement
curtailment
petering out
drop
fall
diminishment
decrement
falloff
cut
loss
ebb
lowering
depletion
easing
cutback
drop-off
depression
dent
step down
mitigation
downturn
alleviation
slump
attenuation
assuagement
descent
relief
lightening
remission
retrenchment
palliation
diminishing
relaxation
falling off
softening
degradation
depreciation
downgrade
nosedive
deterioration
wane
plunge
devaluation
dive
allaying
soothing
dulling
mollification
slip
downswing
degeneration
slide
decay
extenuation
collapse
lapse
downfall
dip
thinning
quelling
dilution
dying down
deadening
appeasement
tumble
subsidence
fading
tempering
degeneracy
letup
decadence
respite
lull
devolution
downtick
pause
recession
cessation
cushioning
modification
break
downtrend
declination
cutting
impoverishment
declining
worsening
easing off
minimizingUS
plummet
retrogression
tightening
easement
slash
regression
debasement
crash
minimisingUK
narrowing
declension
pacification
rest
tapering
exhaustion
shortening
dropping off
sag
placation
down
recess
interval
slowing
enfeeblement
debilitation
downslide
fall-off
calming
amelioration
restriction
limitation
ease
subsiding
blunting
tailing off
release
limiting
constriction
comfort
cure
sinking
quenching
sapping
suspension
withering
trimming
slaking
palliative
qualification
interruption
relieving
failing
condensation
improvement
markdown
dying away
failure
saving
shrinking
breakdown
dying out
rollback
remedy
vitiation
attrition
letting up
abasement
spoiling
slowdown
adulteration
ruin
rotting
declivity
spill
stagnation
nose dive
diminuendo
modulation
damping
stilling
offsetting
rarefication
loosening
downsize
curtailing
reprieve
receding
economy
devitalization
weakness
curbing
allayment
balm
watering down
taking the edge off
precipitation
salving
flagging
undermining
cutting back
alleviating
vindication
justification
landslide
aggravation
disappearance
compression
striction
decrescence
phasedown
belt-tightening
reversal
fading away
comforting
mitigating
assuaging
docking
truncation
eclipse
fade
sweep
refluence
reflux
backflow
retroflux
downhill trend
salami slicing
expenditure
consumption
pruning
slimming
dégringolade
desisting
relenting
dropping away
dilapidation
disintegration
decaying
curb
abbreviation
guillotine
standstill
absorption
expending
deficiency
using up
use
cooling off
chopping
axing
disrepair
corrosion
perversion
dislocation
degringolade
inactivity
drain
milking
emptying
draining
restricting
consolidation
slant
belly flop
incline
slope
skid
pratfall
downward slope
header
ruining
destroying
harm
spoliation
rot
tapering off
allowance
low water
low tide
outward flow
subdual
subjugation
pullback
slimming down
paralysis
bottom out
trough
bottom-out
shakeout
bleeding
cutting short
scaling down
corruption
soaking up
conciliation
abeyance
running down
concession
propitiation
accommodation
acceding
delay
retardation
reconciliation
satisfaction
quieting
peace-mongering
peacemaking
acquiescence
solace
dovishness
lulling
compromise
halt
peace offering
sweetening
tranquillization
stop
disruption
stoppage
discontinuity
hiatus
amends
adjustment
grant
restoration
settlement
reparation
accession
tranquilization
discontinuation
gap
discontinuance
surcease
caesura
lapse of time
breathing space
cut-off
cutoff
layoff
lacuna
blow
stumble
comedown
atrophy
flop
backsliding
relapse
falling-off
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Noun
▲
An intentionally false statement
lie
fabrication
falsehood
fib
untruth
deception
falsity
fiction
falsification
prevarication
invention
mendacity
misinformation
dishonesty
disinformation
exaggeration
myth
perjury
sham
deceit
inaccuracy
porky
pretenseUS
pretenceUK
story
white lie
dissimulation
distortion
gossip
guile
misrepresentation
misstatement
pretext
propaganda
subterfuge
tale
bulldust
fable
falseness
forgery
fraudulence
hyperbole
line
whopper
yarn
backbiting
evasion
taradiddle
tarradiddle
half-truth
departure from the truth
fairy tale
flight of fancy
made-up story
piece of fiction
tall story
tall tale
terminological inexactitude
trumped-up story
barefaced lie
fake news
figment of the imagination
little white lie
red herring
alternative fact
cock and bull story
fairy story
pork pie
porky pie
canard
ruse
trickery
concoction
figment
wile
coloringUS
stratagem
fantasy
colouringUK
song and dance
untruthfulness
fish story
sophistry
fallacy
delusion
spuriousness
phantasy
duplicity
excuse
speciousness
equivocation
kidology
crock
deceptiveness
lies
hypocrisy
hogwash
deceitfulness
fraud
fake
fancy
jazz
slant
lying
cover
inveracity
fallaciousness
illusion
fudging
cover-up
jive
casuistry
stonewall
stall
run-around
adulteration
farfetched story
mendaciousness
chicanery
stretch
twist
insincerity
perversion
hollowness
double-dealing
perfidy
spin
smoke
fictitiousness
mutilation
twisting
evasiveness
bunk
disingenuousness
unveracity
unreality
hallucination
narrative
urban myth
anecdote
fibbing
amphibology
sophism
amphiboly
shuffling
creation
imagination
waffle
manipulation
improvisation
urban legend
false light
truthlessness
economy with the truth
con
doctoring
alteration
tampering
not a true picture
song
potboiler
trick
double meaning
short story
cop out
double entendre
double talk
quibbling routine
unlikely story
guise
pishogue
whisper
unbelievable tale
fanciful tale
false statement
spinach
half truth
big lie
remarkable story
nancy story
fibbery
feigning
fakery
claptrap
patter
false report
opus
artifactUS
work
artefactUK
disguise
mask
semblance
front
conspiracy theory
pitch
dissembling
two-timing
one for the birds
false excuse
doublespeak
codology
talk
lead
unreliability
persuasion
indirectness
circumlocution
misconception
false colors
misbelief
waffling
flannel
paltering
calumny
prepared speech
bias
overstatement
embellishment
pussyfooting around
weasel words
beating about the bush
superstition
error
misreporting
misreport
obfuscation
false notion
mistaken belief
slanting
erroneousness
treachery
inexactness
skew
prejudice
garbling
travesty
apologue
cheating
incredible story
exaggerated story
incorrectness
uncandidness
change
tinkering
false rumour
false information
parable
fictitious story
folk ballad
debasement
caricature
fibs
bending of the truth
false trail
reminiscence
novelette
report
saga
history
novella
sketch
account
legend
novel
romance
nonsense
BS
misinterpretation
imbalance
baloney
stretching
fiddling
changing
equivocality
creativity
storytelling
narration
bum steer
misleading information
production
oversubtleness
book
hooey
unrealism
nonfiction
literature
drama
cliff-hanger
chimeraUS
sea story
joke
adventure
prose
alibi
creative writing
casuistics
quibbling
subtlety
ambiguity
short stories
best seller
vision
work of fiction
figment of imagination
works of fiction
made up story
work of imagination
doubtfulness
legalism
rationalizationUS
rationalisationUK
justification
apparition
daydream
fantasm
phantasm
mirage
conceit
nonentity
dream
hedging
equivoque
hedge
euphemism
imagining
unsound reasoning
twisting the facts
specious reasoning
overgeneral reasoning
pipe dream
bubble
castle in the air
nightmare
chimaeraUK
tergiversation
avoidance
dodging
elusion
weasel word
shunning
escape
eluding
shirking
ducking
circumvention
cunning
cop-out
shaking
eschewal
artifice
out
eschewing
bypassing
sidestepping
go-by
obliqueness
bilking
shift
getting out of
routine
dodge
fancy footwork
ditch
finding a way round
quibble
equivocating
fugivity
fugiviteness
slip
evading
skirting
stonewalling
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