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All obloquious synonyms

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adjective obloquious

  • insulting — giving or causing insult; characterized by affronting rudeness, insolence, etc.
  • offensive — causing resentful displeasure; highly irritating, angering, or annoying: offensive television commercials.
  • rude — discourteous or impolite, especially in a deliberate way: a rude reply.
  • calumniating — Present participle of calumniate.
  • castigating — Present participle of castigate.
  • censorious — If you describe someone as censorious, you do not like the way they strongly disapprove of and criticize someone else's behaviour.
  • contumelious — rude in a contemptuous way; insulting and humiliating
  • defamatory — Speech or writing that is defamatory is likely to damage someone's good reputation by saying something bad and untrue about them.
  • derisive — A derisive noise, expression, or remark expresses contempt.
  • disparaging — that disparages; tending to belittle or bring reproach upon: a disparaging remark.
  • insolent — boldly rude or disrespectful; contemptuously impertinent; insulting: an insolent reply.
  • invective — vehement or violent denunciation, censure, or reproach.
  • libellous — containing, constituting, or involving a libel; maliciously defamatory.
  • libelous — containing, constituting, or involving a libel; maliciously defamatory.
  • maligning — to speak harmful untruths about; speak evil of; slander; defame: to malign an honorable man.
  • opprobrious — conveying or expressing opprobrium, as language or a speaker: opprobrious invectives.
  • reproachful — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
  • reviling — to assail with contemptuous or opprobrious language; address or speak of abusively.
  • sarcastic — of, relating to, or characterized by sarcasm: a sarcastic reply.
  • scathing — bitterly severe, as a remark: a scathing review of the play.
  • scolding — a person who is constantly scolding, often with loud and abusive speech.
  • scurrilous — grossly or obscenely abusive: a scurrilous attack on the mayor.
  • sharp-tongued — characterized by or given to harshness, bitterness, or sarcasm in speech.
  • slanderous — defamation; calumny: rumors full of slander.
  • upbraiding — the act or words of a person who upbraids; severe reproof or censure: an upbraiding from one's superiors.
  • vituperative — characterized by or of the nature of vituperation: vituperative remarks.
  • abusive — Someone who is abusive behaves in a cruel and violent way towards other people.
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