Synonyms of the word

contumely

• n. Offensive and abusive language or behaviour; scorn, insult.

abuse

• n. Improper treatment or usage; application to a wrong or bad purpose; an unjust, corrupt or wrongful practice…
• n. Misuse; improper use; perversion.
• n. (obsolete) A delusion; an imposture; misrepresentation; deception.
• n. Coarse, insulting speech; abusive language; language that unjustly or angrily vilifies.
• n. (now rare) Catachresis.
• n. Physical maltreatment; injury; cruel treatment.
• n. Violation; defilement; rape; forcing of undesired sexual activity by one person on another, often on a…
• v. (transitive) To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to use improperly; to misuse; to use for a wrong purpose…
• v. (transitive) To injure; to maltreat; to hurt; to treat with cruelty, especially repeatedly.
• v. (transitive) To attack with coarse language; to insult; to revile; malign; to speak in an offensive manner…
• v. (transitive) To imbibe a drug for a purpose other than it was intended; to intentionally take more of…
• v. (transitive, archaic) To violate; defile; to rape.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) Misrepresent; adulterate.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To deceive; to trick; to impose on; misuse the confidence of.
• v. (transitive, obsolete, Scotland) Disuse.

discourtesy

• n. Lack of courtesy; rudeness.
• n. A rude act.

disrespect

• n. A lack of respect, esteem or courteous behaviour.
• v. (transitive) To show a lack of respect to someone or something.

insult

• v. (transitive) To offend (someone) by being rude, insensitive or insolent; to demean or affront (someone).
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To behave in an obnoxious and superior manner (over, against).
• v. (obsolete) To leap or trample upon; to make a sudden onset upon.
• n. An action or form of speech deliberately intended to be rude.
• n. Anything that causes offence/offense, e.g. by being of an unacceptable quality.
• n. (medicine) Something causing disease or injury to the body or bodily processes.
• n. (obsolete) The act of leaping on; onset; attack.

revilement

• n. The act of reviling.

vilification

• n. slanderous or malicious defamation; character assassination.