adj. expressing extreme contempt

adj. expressing offensive reproach

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

adj. showing no courtesy; rude; "a distant and at times discourteous young"

adj. expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds

adj. capable of wounding; "a barbed compliment"; "a biting aphorism"; "pungent satire"

adj. having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride; "an arrogant official"; "arrogant claims"; "chesty as a peacock"

adj. (used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension

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

adj. expressive of low opinion; "derogatory comments"; "disparaging remarks about the new house"

adj. expressing or consisting of a negation or refusal or denial

adj. showing or representing unfavorably; "an unflattering portrait"; "an uncomplimentary dress"

adj. puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek

adj. given to haughty disregard of others

adj. not polite

adj. causing anger or annoyance; "offensive remarks"

adj. lacking civility or good manners; "want nothing from you but to get away from your uncivil tongue"- Willa Cather

adj. expressing offensive reproach

adj. threatening with damnation

adj. expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective

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"

adj. very clearly delineated; "razor-sharp definition"

adj. containing or implying a slight or showing prejudice; "discriminatory attitudes and practices"; "invidious comparisons"

adj. having the nature of or resulting from malice; "malicious gossip"; "took malicious pleasure in...watching me wince"- Rudyard Kipling

adj. causing disapproval or protest; "a vulgar and objectionable person"

adj. expressing extreme contempt

adj. threatening with damnation

adj. expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective

adj. grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror; "subjected to outrageous cruelty"; "a hideous pattern of injustice"; "horrific conditions in the mining industry"

adj. giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation; "scandalous behavior"; "the wicked rascally shameful conduct of the bankrupt"- Thackeray; "the most shocking book of its time"

adj. unequivocally detestable; "abominable treatment of prisoners"; "detestable vices"; "execrable crimes"; "consequences odious to those you govern"- Edmund Burke

adj. shockingly brutal or cruel; "murder is an atrocious crime"; "a grievous offense against morality"; "a grievous crime"; "no excess was too monstrous for them to commit"

adj. provoking horror; "an atrocious automobile accident"; "a frightful crime of decapitation"; "an alarming, even horrifying, picture"; "war is beyond all words horrible"- Winston Churchill; "an ugly wound"

adj. revoltingly ugly: "a hideous scar"; "twisted into monstrous shapes"; "a monstrous urban wilderness"

adj. causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench"

adj. abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule; "derisive laughter"; "a jeering crowd"; "her mocking smile"; "taunting shouts of `coward' and `sissy'"

adj. expressive of low opinion; "derogatory comments"; "disparaging remarks about the new house"

adj. (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign

adj. offensive to the mind; "an abhorrent deed"; "the obscene massacre at Wounded Knee"; "morally repugnant customs"; "repulsive behavior"; "the most repulsive character in recent novels"

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

adj. arrogantly insolent

adj. abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule; "derisive laughter"; "a jeering crowd"; "her mocking smile"; "taunting shouts of `coward' and `sissy'"

adj. lacking due respect or dutifulness; "impious toward one's parents"; "an undutiful son"

adj. marked by casual disrespect; "a flip answer to serious question"; "the student was kept in for impudent behavior"

adj. not showing courteous respect