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Adjective
▲
Contemptuously ridiculing or mocking someone or something
scoffing
arrogant
condescending
contemptible
contemptuous
critical
derisive
disdainful
disparaging
mocking
sarcastic
sardonic
scornful
cynical
ironical
caustic
satirical
sharp
cutting
satiric
biting
trenchant
mordant
acerbic
bitter
scathing
taunting
jeering
snarky
offensive
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Showing or feeling strong dislike or disrespect
contemptuous
scornful
disdainful
insulting
arrogant
derisive
derisory
insolent
withering
cavalier
condescending
disrespectful
supercilious
contumelious
jeering
mocking
scoffing
taunting
abhorrent
belittling
decrying
degrading
demeaning
denigrative
denigratory
deprecatory
depreciative
depreciatory
derogative
derogatory
detractive
disparaging
haughty
imperious
pejorative
proud
scathing
slighting
snide
snotty
uncomplimentary
vain
sniffy
audacious
bold
cheeky
cold-shoulder
cool
disapproving
full of contempt
hard
hard-nosed
opprobrious
sardonic
snippy
snobbish
snooty
temperamental
uppity
upstage
dog it
high and mighty
high hat
on high horse
on your high horse
domineering
self-satisfied
pushy
forward
cocksure
magisterial
dictatorial
impertinent
self-confident
assured
complacent
ostentatious
confident
authoritarian
full of yourself
saucy
tyrannical
officious
self-assured
strutting
despotic
consequential
la-di-da
grandiose
forceful
assertive
wise
persnickety
above oneself
assuming
authoritative
commanding
brazen-faced
inconsiderate
bold-faced
aristocratic
inflated
swanky
pushful
oppressive
arch
brassbound
puffed-up
tyrannous
autocratical
tyrannic
loud
dominating
showy
self-loving
pert
sententious
portentous
arbitrary
aggressive
pleased with oneself
imperial
posh
bullish
potty
rash
holier-than-thou
ritzy
stuffy
flaunting
stiff
unabashed
shameless
bombastic
barefaced
blusterous
ambitious
vaunting
self-admiring
self-regarding
impetuous
thrusting
exclusive
obnoxious
self-aggrandizing
boasting
familiar
peacockish
overfamiliar
obtrusive
loudmouth
pontificating
pushing
overbold
malapert
impolite
imperative
puffy
free
strident
self-absorbed
braggart
in love with oneself
sure
self-applauding
unblushing
unreserved
pleased with yourself
loudmouthed
coercive
heavy-handed
full of hot air
high
foolhardy
iron-handed
controlling
undemocratic
imposing
discourteous
hotheaded
autarchic
willful
wilful
dogmatic
anti-democratic
repressive
impulsive
impolitic
precipitate
hasty
highhanded
egomaniac
thoughtless
dominant
ungracious
draconian
regnant
crowing
improper
inappropriate
careless
remote
tony
gracious
flatulent
heedless
high-flown
high-minded
la-de-da
untactful
vivacious
windbag
procacious
hotshot
in-your-face
highfaluting
insistent
loud-mouthed
self-approving
blatant
too big for one's breeches
too big for one's boots
goody-goody
hot stuff
wisenheimer
think too highly of oneself
think a lot of oneself
well pleased
have an excessively high opinion of oneself
self-complacent
self-flattering
extraverted
braggy
self-pleased
self-gratulatory
self-dramatizing
blustery
extroverted
uninhibited
proud of oneself
too big for one's britches
offhand
puffed
standoffish
elitist
airy
powerful
casual
curt
insufferable
rigid
inflexible
cliquish
poncey
windy
silliness
giddy
dizzy
flighty
unconcerned
insouciant
uninterested
refined
bullying
offensively self-assertive
high falutin
selective
wiseguy
reserved
distant
detached
self-willed
unceremonious
overproud
ironhanded
honourableUK
honorableUS
stooping
ranting
hotdogger
positive
certain
abrupt
brusque
glib
terse
cursory
off
lording it
majestic
regal
august
judicial
stately
dignified
snot-nosed
self-opinioned
driven
blowhard
boldfaced
preponderant
demanding
ascendant
prevalent
take-it-or-leave-it
pococurante
offish
brag
boast
la-dee-da
complaisant
compulsatory
obligatory
mandatory
exacting
required
compulsory
insubordinate
indulgent
overindulgent
over-free
relaxed
highbrow
discriminatory
absolute
grand
spectacular
magnificent
splendid
exaggerated
flowery
overstated
conceity
ham
phonyUS
gall
swanking
big-mouthed
temerarious
daredevil
reckless
madcap
effervescent
trashy
headlong
brazenfaced
incautious
bright
maladroit
smart aleck
smart guy
smarty pants
fustian
priggish
self-obsessed
ill-mannered
unmannerly
high-pressure
enterprising
fierce
go-getting
militant
overhasty
previous
premature
phoneyUK
too big for your breeches
swollen with pride
on a high horse
on one's high horse
self-respecting
nose in the air
blowing one's own horn
big
exultant
stuck on oneself
riding for a fall
overoptimistic
presumptive
big talking
tactless
monocratic
as bold as brass
lacking civility
bad mannered
lippy
sharp-elbowed
tolerant
free-and-easy
wrapped up in oneself
feisty
breezy
mannerless
off-base
intrusive
crude
crass
coarse
unshrinking
unembarrassed
unashamed
totalitarian
absolutist
well-pleased
brass-necked
spirited
noisy
blaring
uncontrolled
one-party
summary
unaccountable
unconstitutional
single-party
on ego trip
gritty
flushed
content
pleased
sure of yourself
heading for a fall
put down
prying
protrusive
nosey
interfering
busy
meddling
intruding
meddlesome
snoopy
over-assertive
nosy
grating
jarring
undiplomatic
ruthless
tsarist
czarist
merciless
illiberal
bold as brass
coming on strong
not backwards in coming forwards
piercing
proud of yourself
like a cat that has swallowed the canary
flushed with success
strict
iron-fisted
subjugating
cacophonous
deafening
jangling
dissonant
thundering
booming
shrill
go-ahead
severe
strong-willed
gaudy
ear-splitting
vulgar
flashy
discordant
jazzy
tinny
garish
high-pitched
metallic
flirtatious
arrant
in driver's seat
crack the whip
solemn
ponderous
sonorous
grandiloquent
declamatory
rhetorical
overblown
oratorical
overripe
serious
grave
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Doubtful as to whether something will happen or whether it is worthwhile
cynical
pessimistic
scepticalUK
distrustful
scoffing
unbelieving
sardonic
disbelieving
doubtful
suspicious
disillusioned
doubting
incredulous
ironic
misanthropic
mocking
negative
contemptuous
disenchanted
hard
hard-bitten
hardened
jaundiced
sarcastic
scornful
world-weary
black
bleak
derisive
hard-boiled
misanthropical
mistrustful
mordacious
detracting
disparaging
nonbelieving
scathing
skepticalUS
wry
dubious
unconvinced
questioning
uncertain
unsure
leery
wary
quizzical
cautious
undecided
trustless
unsettled
chary
suspecting
cagey
apprehensive
hinky
negativistic
uneasy
hesitant
show-me
fearful
jealous
lacking trust
careful
agnostic
uptight
having reservations
been hit before
non-believing
faithless
irreligious
circumspect
guarded
iffy
hesitating
lacking confidence
distrusting
nervous
lacking faith
wondering
untrusting
freethinking
aporetic
in doubt
not born yesterday
insecure
ambivalent
anxious
possessive
rationalist
nullifidian
solicitous
unimpressed
unpersuaded
unmoved
mistrusting
pagan
heathen
atheistic
infidel
non-theistic
unenlightened
not believing
dissenting
have misgivings
have reservations
suspect
unsatisfied
watchful
on the fence
without faith
without belief
unfriendly
antisocial
defeatist
misbelieving
unsociable
Pyrrhonist
minimifidian
malevolent
unneighbourly
uncongenial
reclusive
inhumane
inhospitable
reserved
selfish
hating
grouchy
solitary
egotistical
disdainful
egoistic
narrow-minded
standoffish
eremitic
taking something with a pinch of salt
more ❯
Noun
▲
The state or quality of being mordant
derision
cynicism
irony
sarcasm
bitterness
ridicule
satire
mockery
scorn
sharpness
acerbity
mordancy
contempt
causticity
trenchancy
burlesque
banter
criticism
raillery
causticness
acrimony
corrosiveness
scoffing
cut
dig
rancorUS
wisecrack
aspersion
invective
comeback
snub
slap in the face
rebuff
abuse
rudeness
disrespect
discourtesy
kick in the teeth
hatred
spleen
acrimoniousness
cruelty
nastiness
maliciousness
hostility
malevolence
hurtfulness
viciousness
hatefulness
caricature
pasquinade
sneer
scoff
shaft
jeer
goading
cutting remark
spite
ridiculing
disregard
pointed comment
sting
rejection
indifference
spurning
brush-off
cold-shouldering
inattention
disparaging remark
slander
insolence
libel
neglect
smear
the cold shoulder
belittlement
call-down
kick
cold shoulder
injury
defamation
contumely
revilement
impugnment
depreciation
aspersions
humiliation
abusive remark
backhanded compliment
sledge
opprobrium
impertinence
vilification
ignominy
pejorative
obloquy
blasphemy
incivility
disgrace
slam
unpleasantry
impudence
vituperation
scurrility
shame
black eye
disdainfulness
despite
cheap shot
more ❯
Noun
▲
Contemptuous ridicule or mockery
derision
mockery
ridicule
contempt
disdain
disrespect
scoffing
scorn
disparagement
denigration
jeering
jeers
sneers
contumely
jibing
laughter
pooh-poohing
raillery
satire
sport
taunts
butt
insult
insults
jest
joke
lampooning
laughingstock
mark
mock
obloquy
ragging
scornfulness
target
taunting
teasing
vilification
chaffing
brickbat
comeback
crack
dig
dump
jab
pilgarlic
put-down
slam
slap
backhanded compliment
Bronx cheer
parting shot
object of ridicule
pleasantry
mocking
scoff
jesting
drollery
repartee
spoof
play
hissing
heckling
name-calling
booing
laugh
dupe
fool
witticism
buffoon
josh
wit
skit
imitation
giggle
send-up
pasquinade
pastiche
clown
mime
grin
grimace
jestee
plaything
laughing stock
leg-pulling
japing
irreverence
Aunt Sally
barb
provocation
takeoff
fleer
roasting
good-humoured mockery
asteism
lampoonery
take-off
object of derision
facetiousness
catcall
cut
goading
ridiculing
rag
ride
twit
tease
rank-out
cutting remark
pasticcio
pappyshow
frolic
merriment
mirth
sledge
pale imitation
mock-heroic
copy
apology
play-on
escapade
jollification
horseplay
mummery
tomfoolery
trifling
nonsense
jollity
reproach
affront
criticism
outrage
censure
hoot
quip
gag
sally
wisecrack
snark
slap in the face
dirty dig
verbal abuse
snappy comeback
wordplay
funny
one-liner
practical joke
jape
ripostes
swordplay
sallies
wisecracks
quipping
crosstalk
quips
waggery
boffola
yuck
prank
yuk
pun
hoax
game
boffo
boff
nifty
distortion
jocularity
give-and-take
backchat
witticisms
funny remark
jive
canard
rib-tickler
bon mot
jolly
bants
play on words
gossip
witty remarks
exchange
chitchat
witty conversation
dissing
bons mots
playful jab
small talk
more ❯
Noun
▲
The state or property of being haughty
haughtiness
arrogance
pomposity
disdain
loftiness
pride
superciliousness
conceit
contempt
hauteur
boasting
egotism
high-handedness
hubris
self-importance
snobbishness
swagger
aloofness
bluster
bumptiousness
condescension
immodesty
imperiousness
lordliness
pretension
pretentiousness
vanity
affectation
airs
assumption
consequence
contemptuousness
huffiness
masterfulness
mocking
peremptoriness
pompousness
presumptuousness
pretenceUK
pretenseUS
scorn
self-consequence
smugness
snobbery
snootiness
superiority
toploftiness
big-headedness
disdainfulness
insolence
overconfidence
scoffing
sense of superiority
superbity
uppitiness
high horse
affectedness
overbearingness
proudness
pridefulness
side
cockiness
grandiosity
brashness
patronization
posing
posturing
front
airs and graces
civility
deference
patronage
condescendence
toleration
show
patronizing attitude
swank
boldness
put-on
la-di-da
inflation
ostentatiousness
false front
vainglory
sass
showing off
inflated ego
dignity
bossiness
superior manner
affectations
stateliness
pushiness
assertiveness
stiffness
sententiousness
elitism
self-conceit
puffiness
flaunting
hoity-toitiness
snottiness
portentousness
exclusiveness
snobbism
exaggeration
grandioseness
display
bigheadedness
vaingloriousness
air
pose
pretensions
mannerism
defiance
superiority complex
feeling of superiority
attitude
hypocrisy
attitudinizing
artificiality
floweriness
grandiloquence
flashiness
grandness
heroics
flamboyance
magniloquence
ornateness
elaborateness
bombast
pedantry
extravagance
rhetoric
turgidity
flatulence
guyver
showiness
fustian
impudence
showboat
showoff
disguise
splash
fake
charade
phoneyUK
phonyUS
effrontery
face
brazenness
impertinence
big talk
false claim
sauce
temerity
sauciness
cheekiness
neck
pertness
nerviness
shamelessness
impoliteness
sassiness
rudeness
brassiness
chutzpa
snash
audaciousness
malapertness
bad manners
hide
procacity
brass neck
moxie
crust cynicism
guts
confidence
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to smile or speak in a contemptuous or mocking manner
sniggering
snickering
smirking
laughing
smiling
smiling conceitedly
smiling contemptuously
smiling disparagingly
smiling smugly
smiling cruelly
smiling mirthlessly
simpering
grinning
beaming
smiling affectedly
looking smug
looking coy
smiling coquettishly
smiling self-consciously
smiling coyly
giving a smug look
leering
smickering
giggling
tittering
grimacing
smiling broadly
twinkling
looking happy
grinning from ear to ear
grinning like a Cheshire cat
dimpling
chortling
cracking
chuckling
glowing
grinning like a Cheshire Cat
expressing friendliness
looking delighted
looking amused
expressing tendernes
looking pleased
expressing tenderness
“He would constantly sneer at them but they brushed it off and just went about their business.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to mock or condemn
scorning
mocking
ridiculing
deriding
disdaining
insulting
jeering
laughing
taunting
affronting
scoffing
slighting
sniggering
gibing
jiving
scoffing at
slurring
belittling
burlesquing
caricaturing
condemning
cracking
decrying
detracting
disparaging
dumping
fleering
flouting
gibing at
girding
grinning
jeering at
jesting
lampooning
leering
rallying
satirisingUK
satirizingUS
slamming
swiping
travestying
twitting
underrating
treating with contempt
holding in contempt
laughing at
putting down
quipping at
ranking out
sneezing at
sniffing at
giving Bronx cheer
making cutting remarks about
saying contemptuously
turning up your nose
curling one's lip at
looking down on
turning up one's nose
turning your nose up at
holding up to ridicule
harassing
badgering
pestering
picking on
hounding
harrying
plaguing
worrying
smoking
rotting
disturbing
torturing
persecuting
bedevillingUK
bedevilingUS
whistling
pulling someone's leg
bullying
leading on
dogging
nudging
shouting
howling down
drowning out
giving a hard time
devilling
deviling
poking borak at
afflicting
chivying
irking
messing around
pulling somebody's leg
victimizingUS
oppressing
manipulating
titillating
troubling
spiting
nagging
molesting
harrowing
exciting
mistreating
antagonizingUS
chivvying
nettling
beleaguering
gnawing
browbeating
besetting
howling
victimisingUK
shrieking
flirting with
embarrassing
putting out
imposing on
piquing
antagonisingUK
rasping
galling
raspberrying
giving someone grief
pulling someone's chain
disgusting
hitting where one lives
hurling insults at
driving up the wall
making fun
flittering
frazzling
kidding around
disrupting
pranking
flipping
entertaining
diverting
tearing to pieces
yelling
crying
disconcerting
discomfiting
rattling
fazing
screaming
whooping
amusing
scolding
berating
smiling at
sniggering at
snickering at
deprecating
giving the bird to
enticing
butting in
making game of
domineering
playing a joke on
pushing
gripping
tyrannizingUS
overriding
punning
sallying
shouting catcalls at
diminishing
minimizingUS
inconveniencing
dominating
hollering
tyrannisingUK
enslaving
intriguing
luring
tempting
beguiling
alluring
fascinating
playing a practical joke on
roaring
guffawing
intimidating
bugging
having a joke with
taking the mickey
charming
thwarting
frustrating
baffling
cowing
maltreating
exploiting
bulldozing
taking a rise out of
getting a rise out of
joking with
crying out
rankling
angering
disgruntling
distressing
minimisingUK
blackjacking
narking
talking down
playing down
crying down
ill-treating
blowing
whirring
susurrating
whispering
uttering catcalls
disapproving
sissing
murmuring
rustling
spitting
seething
bogarting
putting
tyrannizing over
chafing
eating
grating
frosting
getting
mithering
itching
discommoding
riling
peeving
griping
exasperating
intruding upon
ruffling
coercing
giving the cold shoulder
confronting
dispraising
giving a zinger
misusing
wronging
racking
excruciating
agonizingUS
anguishing
besieging
heavying
keeping hanging
messing
terrorizingUS
menacing
exacerbating
burning up
scaring
grieving
impeding
grating on
breathing down someone's neck
crossing
paining
hindering
bending someone's ear
getting on your wick
carping at
perplexing
rubbing up the wrong way
getting on your nerves
boring
pursuing
hacking off
threatening
keeping someone hanging on
making mouth water
making someone's mouth water
keeping hanging on
trying
agonisingUK
punishing
wringing
boning
smiting
frolicking
gambolingUS
gambollingUK
martyrizing
martyring
taking advantage of
doing an injustice to
ill-using
driving bananas
bullyragging
terrorisingUK
shucking someone
playing tricks
messing about
putting someone on
playing the fool
playing a trick
messing someone around
making a monkey out of someone
messing someone about
having someone on
rotting someone
playing a joke
putting through wringer
strong-arming
mau-mauing
stepping on the toes of
leading someone a merry dance
playing cat and mouse
rubbing salt in wound
going for jugular
laying a bad trip on
giving no quarter
snapping
encouraging
arousing
importuning
sounding
leading somebody on
more ❯
“There is too great a readiness to sneer at anything they do.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to laugh in a half-suppressed, typically scornful way
snickering
sniggering
giggling
tittering
chortling
laughing
smirking
cackling
chuckling
hee-hawing
roaring
screaming
smiling
twittering
simpering
breaking up
cracking up
guffawing
knocking
mocking
sniggling
teheeing
giving a half-suppressed laugh
snorting
te-heeing
giving a suppressed laugh
crowing
laughing like a drain
hooting
falling about
bursting out laughing
roaring with laughter
creasing up
gurgling
shaking with laughter
dissolving into laughter
doubling up
dying laughing
busting a gut
splitting your sides
starting to laugh
shrieking with laughter
howling with laughter
exulting
laughing gleefully
laughing inwardly
laughing to yourself
quacking
gobbling
burbling
gibbering
blathering
screeching
laughing irritatingly
howling
cachinnating
grinning
whooping
convulsing
shrieking
fracturing
hooting with laughter
falling down laughing
having hysterics
expressing amusement
splitting one's sides
rolling in the aisles
Verb
▲
Present participle for make a grimace
grimacing
frowning
scowling
louring
pouting
wincing
glowering
mouthing
mugging
gurning
contorting
deforming
distorting
misshaping
smirking
making faces
pulling a face
making a face
making a wry face
screwing up one's face
Verb
▲
Present participle for to regard or represent as being of little worth
disparaging
dismissing
denigrating
minimisingUK
minimizingUS
discrediting
belittling
deprecating
deriding
trivialisingUK
trivializingUS
undervaluing
decrying
derogating
ridiculing
underestimating
underrating
deflating
disdaining
downgrading
impugning
libellingUK
libelingUS
scorning
slandering
blasting
defaming
depreciating
diminishing
discounting
dissing
maligning
trashing
vilifying
criticisingUK
criticizingUS
degrading
minifying
reviling
rubbishing
slamming
slating
slurring
vilipending
condemning
knocking
mocking
panning
traducing
abusing
aspersing
bashing
calumniating
lowering
misprizing
rapping
roasting
scorching
smearing
vituperating
flaming
putting down
pulling to pieces
bad-mouthing
detracting from
doing down
playing down
taking to pieces
talking down
crying down
running down
slagging off
sneering at
casting aspersions on
dumping on
picking holes in
scoffing at
speaking badly of
speaking ill of
treating lightly
writing off
laughing off
making light of
pulling apart
tearing into
trash-talking
hitting out at
laughing at
pooh-poohing
tearing down
holding cheap
kissing off
pouring scorn on
having a go at
putting hooks in
doing a hatchet job on
dragging through the mud
Verb
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Present participle for to say something quickly and irritably
snapping
barking
snarling
retorting
growling
rejoining
riposting
scowling
complaining
saying abruptly
saying angrily
saying brusquely
saying nastily
saying roughly
speaking abruptly
speaking brusquely
speaking nastily
speaking roughly
abusing
flaring
fulminating
gnarling
grumbling
grunting
hurling
retaliating
roaring
shouting
snorting
speaking angrily
venting
yelling
yelping
snapping back
getting angry
lashing out
lashing out at
rounding on someone
speaking sharply
jumping down throat
jumping down someone's throat
taking it out on
flying off the handle at
crying
clamouringUK
clamoringUS
howling
hollering
bawling
baying
screaming
yapping
screeching
calling
vociferating
ululating
yowling
hallooing
holloing
sounding off
rasping
shrieking
lumbering
whooping
hissing
raising your voice
spluttering
yammering
calling out
cheering
gurgling
railing
declaiming
cursing
uttering threat
yelling at
keening
wailing
snuffling
berating
squealing
woofing
squawking
crowing
exclaiming
hailing
grumping
singing
belling
hooting
yawping
cooeeing
hollering out
cawing
singing out
groaning
gabbling
cackling
trilling
shouting out
sighing
moaning
caterwauling
grousing
grizzling
sputtering
crying out
trumpeting
uttering
expressing
spitting
saying
routing
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Verb
▲
Present participle for look or gaze in a lascivious or unpleasant way
leering
eyeing
eying
goggling
ogling
staring
grinning
squinting
watching
winking
drooling
gawking
gawping
gloating
looking lasciviously
looking suggestively
smirking
eyeballing
leching after
leching over
drooling over
perving on
giving sly looks to
giving someone a once-over
giving the once-over
making eyes
giving someone the glad eye
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