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Adjectives (3)
insulting, scornful, disdainful
adj. expressing extreme contempt
Fuzzynyms (73)
brazen, audacious, barefaced, bodacious, bold-faced, brassy, brazen-faced, insolent
adj. unrestrained by convention or propriety; "an audacious trick to pull"; "a barefaced hypocrite"; "the most bodacious display of tourism this side of Anaheim"- Los Angeles Times; "bald-faced lies"; "brazen arrogance"; "the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress"- Bertrand Russell
discourteous
adj. showing no courtesy; rude; "a distant and at times discourteous young"
sarcastic
adj. expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds
barbed, biting, nipping, pointed, pungent
adj. capable of wounding; "a barbed compliment"; "a biting aphorism"; "pungent satire"
arrogant, chesty, self-important
adj. having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride; "an arrogant official"; "arrogant claims"; "chesty as a peacock"
arch, condescending, patronizing
adj. (used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension
swaggering, prideful, supercilious, lordly, disdainful, haughty, sniffy
adj. having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; "some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines"; "haughty aristocrats"; "his lordly manners were offensive"; "walked with a prideful swagger"; "very sniffy about breaches of etiquette"; "his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air"; "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer
belittling, depreciative, depreciatory, derogative, derogatory, detractive, disparaging, slighting
adj. expressive of low opinion; "derogatory comments"; "disparaging remarks about the new house"
negative
adj. expressing or consisting of a negation or refusal or denial
unflattering
adj. showing or representing unfavorably; "an unflattering portrait"; "an uncomplimentary dress"
overblown, grandiloquent, pompous, pontifical, portentous
adj. puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek
cavalier, high-handed
adj. given to haughty disregard of others
impolite
adj. not polite
offensive
adj. causing anger or annoyance; "offensive remarks"
rude, uncivil
adj. lacking civility or good manners; "want nothing from you but to get away from your uncivil tongue"- Willa Cather
abusive, opprobrious, insulting, scornful, scurrilous
adj. expressing offensive reproach
damnatory, damning
adj. threatening with damnation
admonitory, admonishing, reproachful, reproving
adj. expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective
sneering, supercilious, snide
adj. expressive of contempt; "curled his lip in a supercilious smile"; "spoke in a sneering jeering manner"; "makes many a sharp comparison but never a mean or snide one"
sharp, crisp, razor-sharp
adj. very clearly delineated; "razor-sharp definition"
discriminatory, invidious
adj. containing or implying a slight or showing prejudice; "discriminatory attitudes and practices"; "invidious comparisons"
malevolent, malicious
adj. having the nature of or resulting from malice; "malicious gossip"; "took malicious pleasure in...watching me wince"- Rudyard Kipling
objectionable, unpleasant, obnoxious
adj. causing disapproval or protest; "a vulgar and objectionable person"
Synonyms (15)
withering, devastating, annihilating
adj. making light of; "afire with annihilating invective"; "a devastating portrait of human folly"; "to compliments inflated I've a withering reply"- W.S.Gilbert
contumelious
adj. arrogantly insolent
jeering, derisive, derisory, mocking
adj. abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule; "derisive laughter"; "a jeering crowd"; "her mocking smile"; "taunting shouts of `coward' and `sissy'"
impious, undutiful
adj. lacking due respect or dutifulness; "impious toward one's parents"; "an undutiful son"
flip, insolent, impudent, snotty-nosed
adj. marked by casual disrespect; "a flip answer to serious question"; "the student was kept in for impudent behavior"
undeferential
adj. not showing courteous respect
Antonyms (0)
contemptuous
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