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All cajolery antonyms

ca·jol·er·y
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noun cajolery

  • disfavour — unfavorable regard; displeasure; disesteem; dislike: The prime minister incurred the king's disfavor.
  • dissuasion — an act or instance of dissuading.
  • belittlement — to regard or portray as less impressive or important than appearances indicate; depreciate; disparage.
  • castigation — to criticize or reprimand severely.
  • offense — a violation or breaking of a social or moral rule; transgression; sin.
  • disability — lack of adequate power, strength, or physical or mental ability; incapacity.
  • ineffectiveness — not effective; not producing results; ineffectual: ineffective efforts; ineffective remedies.
  • weakness — the state or quality of being weak; lack of strength, firmness, vigor, or the like; feebleness.
  • incompetence — the quality or condition of being incompetent; lack of ability.
  • hindrance — an impeding, stopping, preventing, or the like.
  • prevention — the act of preventing; effectual hindrance.
  • atheism — Atheism is the belief that there is no God. Compare agnosticism.
  • disbelief — the inability or refusal to believe or to accept something as true.
  • impotence — the condition or quality of being impotent; weakness.
  • discouragement — an act or instance of discouraging.
  • quiet — making no noise or sound, especially no disturbing sound: quiet neighbors.
  • disapproval — the act or state of disapproving; a condemnatory feeling, look, or utterance; censure: stern disapproval.
  • disregard — to pay no attention to; leave out of consideration; ignore: Disregard the footnotes.
  • silence — absence of any sound or noise; stillness.
  • censure — If you censure someone for something that they have done, you tell them that you strongly disapprove of it.
  • veto — the power or right vested in one branch of a government to cancel or postpone the decisions, enactments, etc., of another branch, especially the right of a president, governor, or other chief executive to reject bills passed by the legislature.
  • refusal — an act or instance of refusing.
  • disrespect — Lack of respect or courtesy.
  • disfavor — unfavorable regard; displeasure; disesteem; dislike: The prime minister incurred the king's disfavor.
  • ignorance — the state or fact of being ignorant; lack of knowledge, learning, information, etc.
  • condemnation — Condemnation is the act of saying that something or someone is very bad and unacceptable.
  • dislike — to regard with displeasure, antipathy, or aversion: I dislike working. I dislike oysters.
  • denunciation — Denunciation of someone or something is severe public criticism of them.
  • insult — to treat or speak to insolently or with contemptuous rudeness; affront.
  • libel — the false accusation that Jews murder Christian children to use their blood in religious rituals: blood libels that spread throughout Europe in the Middle Ages.
  • slander — defamation; calumny: rumors full of slander.
  • blame — If you blame a person or thing for something bad, you believe or say that they are responsible for it or that they caused it.
  • criticism — the analysis or evaluation of a work of art, literature, etc
  • opposition — the action of opposing, resisting, or combating.
  • neglect — to pay no attention or too little attention to; disregard or slight: The public neglected his genius for many years.
  • complaint — A complaint is a statement in which you express your dissatisfaction with a particular situation.
  • repulsion — the act of repulsing or the state of being repulsed.
  • disgust — to cause loathing or nausea in.
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