Synonyms of the word

vilification

• n. slanderous or malicious defamation; character assassination.

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.

calumniation

• n. A false accusation, or a malicious statement, about someone.

calumny

• n. A falsification or misrepresentation intended to disparage or discredit another.
• n. False charges brought about to tarnish another's reputation or standing.

contumely

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

defamation

• n. The act of injuring another's reputation by any slanderous communication, written or oral; the wrong of…

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.

malignment

• n. The act of maligning something.

obloquy

• n. Abusive language.
• n. Disgrace suffered from abusive language.
• n. (archaic) A false accusation; malevolent rumors.

revilement

• n. The act of reviling.

smear

• v. (transitive) To spread (a substance, especially one that colours or is dirty) across a surface by rubbing.
• v. (transitive) To have a substance smeared on (a surface).
• v. (transitive) To damage someone's reputation by slandering, misrepresenting, or otherwise making false…
• v. (intransitive) To become spread by smearing.
• v. (climbing) To climb without using footholds, using the friction from the shoe to stay on the wall.
• n. A mark made by smearing.
• n. (medicine) A Pap smear.
• n. A false attack.
• n. (climbing) A maneuver in which the shoe is placed onto the holdless rock, and the friction from the shoe…
• n. (music) A rough glissando in jazz music.

traducement

• n. The act of traducing; slander, calumny.