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deprecate v.
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cut down to size; depreciate; derogate; detract; disapprove of; discommend; discountenance; disesteem; disfavor; disparage; expostulate; frown; mudsling; not go for; object; poor mouth; protest against; run down; take down; take exception to
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derogatory adj.
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aspersing; belittling; calumnious; censorious; contumelious; critical; damaging; decrying; defamatory; degrading; demeaning; deprecatory; depreciative; despiteful; detracting; disdainful; dishonoring; disparaging; fault-finding; humiliating; injurious; malevolent; malicious; maligning; minimizing; opprobrious; reproachful; sarcastic; scornful; slanderous; slighting; spiteful; unfavorable; unflattering; vilifying
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desecrate v.
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befoul; blaspheme; commit sacrilege; contaminate; defile; depredate; desolate; despoil; devastate; devour; dishonor; make lose face; pervert; pillage; pollute; profane; prostitute; ravage; sack; spoil; spoliate; waste
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despot n.
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Hitler; autocrat; dictator; monocrat; oppressor; slavedriver; tyrant
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deter v.
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avert; block; caution; chill; cool; damp; dampen; daunt; debar; disadvise; discourage; dissuade; divert; forestall; forfend; frighten; hinder; impede; intimidate; obstruct; obviate; preclude; prevent; prohibit; put off; restrain; rule out; scare; shut out; stave off; stop; talk out of; turn off; warn
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devious adj.
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artful; calculating; crooked; deceitful; double-dealing; duplicitous; errant; erring; evasive; faking one out; fishy; foxy; fraudulent; guileful; indirect; insidious; insincere; not straight-forward; oblique; obliquitous; playing games; put on; roundabout; scheming; shady; shifty; shrewd; sly; sneaking; sneaky; surreptitious; treacherous; tricky; underhanded; wily
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devoid adj.
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bare; barren; bereft; deficient; denuded; destitute; free from; innocent; lacking; needed; sans; unprovided with; vacant; void; without
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diatribe n.
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abuse; castigation; denunciation; disputation; invective; jeremiad; objection; onslaught; philippic; reviling; screed; stricture; tirade; vituperation
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didactic adj.
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academic; advisory; donnish; edifying; enlightening; exhortative; expository; homiletic; hortative; instructive; moral; moralizing; pedagogic; pedantic; preachy; preceptive; schoolmasterist; sermonic; sermonizing; teacherish; teacherly; teachy
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diffuse adj.
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broadcast; catholic; circulated; diluted; dispersed; disseminated; distributed; expanded; extended; general; prevalent; propagated; radiated; scattered; separated; strewn; thin; unconcentrated; universal; widespread
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