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#929. Disrespect. -- N. disrespect, disesteem, disestimation;
disparagement &c. (dispraise) 932, (detraction) 934.
irreverence; slight, neglect, spretae injuria formae [Vergil],
superciliousness &c. (contempt) 930.
vilipendency|, contumely, affront, dishonor, insult, indignity,
outrage, discourtesy &c. 895; practical joking; scurrility, scoffing,
sibilation; irrision; derision; mockery; irony &c. (ridicule) 856; sarcasm.
hiss, hoot, gibe, flout, jeer, scoff, gleek|, taunt, sneer, quip,
fling, wipe, slap in the face.
V. hold in disrespect &c. (despise) 930; misprize, disregard, slight,
trifle with, set at naught, pass by, push aside, overlook, turn one's back
upon, laugh in one's sleeve; be disrespectful &c. adj., be discourteous &c.
895; treat with disrespect &c.n.; set down, browbeat.
dishonor, desecrate; insult, affront, outrage.
speak slightingly of; disparage &c. (dispraise) 932; vilipend, call
names; throw dirt, fling dirt; drag through the mud, point at, indulge in
personalities; make mouths, make faces; bite the thumb; take by the beard;
pluck by the beard; toss in a blanket, tar and feather.
have in derision; hold in derision; deride, scoff, barrack, sneer,
laugh at, snigger, ridicule, gibe, mock, jeer, hiss, hoot, taunt, twit,
niggle, gleek|!, gird, flout, fleer; roast, turn into ridicule; burlesque
&c. 856; laugh to scorn &c. (contempt) 930; smoke; fool; make game of, make
a fool of, make an April fool of; play a practical joke; lead one a dance,
run the rig upon, have a fling at, scout; mob.
Adj. disrespectful; aweless, irreverent; disparaging &c. 934;
insulting &c.v.; supercilious &c. (scornful) 930; rude, derisive,
sarcastic; scurrile, scurrilous; contumelious.
unrespected, unworshiped, unenvied, unsaluted; unregarded,
disregarded.
Adv. disrespectfully &c. adj.

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#930. Contempt. -- N. contempt, disdain, scorn, sovereign contempt;
despisal, despiciency; despisement; vilipendency|!, contumely; slight,
sneer, spurn, by-word; despect.
contemptuousness &c. adj.; scornful eye; smile of contempt; derision
&c. (disrespect) 929. [State of being despised] despisedness.
V. despise, contemn, scorn, disdain, feel contempt for, view with a
scornful eye; disregard, slight, not mind; pass by &c. (neglect) 460.
look down upon; hold cheap, hold in contempt, hold in disrespect;
think nothing of, think small beer of; make light of; underestimate &c.
483; esteem slightly, esteem of small or no account; take no account of,
care nothing for; set no store by; not care a straw, sneeze at &c.
(unimportance) 643; set at naught, laugh in one's sleeve, laugh up one's
sleeve, snap one;s fingers at, shrug one's shoulders, turn up one's nose
at, pooh-pooh, "damn with faint praise" [Pope]; whistle at, sneer at; curl
up one's lip, toss the head, traiter de haut enbas; laught at &c. (be
disrespectful) 929.
point the finger of scorn, hold up to scorn, laugh to scorn; scout,
hoot, flout, hiss, scoff at.
turn one's back upon, turn a cold shoulder upon; tread upon, trample
upon, trample under foot; spurn, kick; fling to the winds &c. (repudiate)
610; send away with a flea in the ear.
Adj. contemptuous; disdainful, scornful; withering, contumelious,
supercilious, cynical, haughty, bumptious, cavalier; derisive.
contemptible, despicable; pitiable; pitiful &c. (unimportant) 643;
despised &c.v.; downtrodden; unenvied.
Adv. contemptuously &c. adj.
Int. a fig for &c. (unimportant) 643; bah! never mind! away with! hang
it! fiddlededee!
Phr. "a dismal universal hiss, the sound of public scorn" [Paradise
Lost]; "I had rather be a dog and bay the moon than such a Roman" [Julius
Caesar].

#931. Approbation. -- N. approbation; approval, approvement; sanction,
advocacy; nod of approbation; esteem, estimation, good opinion, golden
opinions, admiration; love &c. 897; appreciation, regard, account,
popularity, , credit; repute &c. 873; best seller.
commendation, praise; laud, laudation; good word; meed of praise,
tribute of praise; encomium; eulogy, eulogium; eloge, panegyric; homage,
hero worship; benediction, blessing, benison.
applause, plaudit, clap; clapping, clapping of hands; acclaim,
acclamation; cheer; paean, hosannah; shout of applause, peal of applause,
chorus of applause, chorus of praise &c.; Prytaneum.
V. approve; approbate[1], think good, think much of, think well of,
think highly of; esteem, value, prize; set great store by, set great store
on.
do justice to, appreciate; honor, hold in esteem, look up to, admire;
like &c. 897; be in favor of, wish Godspeed; hail, hail with satisfaction.
stand up for, stick up for; uphold, hold up, countenance, sanction;
plap on the back, pat on the back; keep in countenance, indorse; give
credit, recommend; mark with a white mark, mark with a stone.
commend, belaud, praise, laud, compliment; pay a tribute, bepraise;
clap the hands; applaud, cheer, acclamate, encore; panegyrize, eulogize,
cry up, proner, puff; extol, extol to the skies; magnify, glorify, exalt,
swell, make much of; flatter &c. 933; bless, give a blessing to; have a
good word for, say a good word for; speak well of, speak highly of, speak
in high terms of; sing the praises of, sound the praises of, chaunt the
praises of; resound the praises of; sing praises to; cheer to the echo,
applaud to the echo, applaud to the very echo, cheer to the very echo.
redound to the honor, redount to the praise, redound to the credit of;
do credit to; deserve praise &c.n.; recommend itself; pass muster.
be praised &c.; receive honorable mention; be in favor with, be in
high favor with; ring with the praises of, win golden opinions, gain
credit, find favor with, stand well in the opinion of; laudari a laudato
viro.
Adj. approving &c.v.; in favor of; lost in admiration.
commendatory, complimentary, benedictory, laudatory, panegyrical,
eulogistic, encomiastic, lavish of praise, uncritical.
approved, praised &c.v.; uncensured, unimpeached; popular, in good
odor; in high esteem &c. (respected) 928; in favor, in high favor.
deserving of praise, worthy of praise &c.n.; praisworthy, commendable,
of estimation; good &c. 648; meritorious, estimable, creditable, plausible,
unimpeachable; beyond all praise.
Adv. with credit, to admiration; well &c. 618; with three times three.
Int. hear hear! bully for you! * well done! bravo! bravissimo! euge!
macte virtute! so far so good, that's right, quite right; optime! one cheer
more; may your shadow never be less! esto perpetua! long life to! viva!
enviva! Godspeed! valete et plaudite! encore! bis!
Phr. probatum est; tacent satis laudant; "servant of God, well done!"
[Paradise Lost].

[note 1] [Obsolete in England except in legal writings, but surviving in
the United States chiefly in a technical sense for license. C.O.S.M.]

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#932. Disapprobation. -- N. disapprobation, disapproval; improbation;
disesteem, disvaluation, displacency; odium; dislike &c. 867.
dispraise, discommendation; blame, censure, obloquy; detraction &c.
934; disparagement, depreciation; denunciation; condemnation &c. 971;
ostracism; black list.
animadversion, reflection, stricture, objection, exception, criticism;
sardonic grin, sardonic laugh; sarcasm, insinuation, inuendo; bad
compliment, poor compliment, left-handed compliment.
satire; sneer &c. (contempt) 930; taunt &c. (disrespect) 929; cavil,
carping, censoriousness; hypercriticism &c. (fastidiousness) 868.
reprehension, remonstrance, expostulation, reproof, reprobation,
admonition, increpation, reproach; rebuke, reprimand, castigation,
jobation, lecture, curtain lecture, blow up, wigging, dressing, rating,
scolding, trimming; correction, set down, rap on the knuckles, coup de bec,
rebuff; slap, slap on the face; home thrust, hit; frown, scowl, black look.
diatribe; jeremiad, jeremiade; tirade, philippic.
clamor, outcry, hue and cry; hiss, hissing; sibilation, catcall;
execration &c. 908.
chiding, upbraiding &c.v.; exprobation, abuse, vituperation,
invective, objurgation, contumely; hard words, cutting words, bitter words.
evil-speaking; bad language &c. 908; personality.
V. disapprove; dislike &c. 867; lament &c. 839; object to, take
exception to; be scandalized at, think ill of; view with disfavor, view
with dark eyes, view with jaundiced eyes; nil admirari, disvalue;
improbate.
frown upon, look grave; bend the brows, knit the brows; shake the head
at, shrug the shoulders; turn up the nose &c. (contempt) 930; look askance,
look black upon; look with an evil eye; make a wry face, make a wry mouth
at; set one's face against.
dispraise, discommend, disparage; deprecate, speak ill of, not speak
well of; condemn &c. (find guilty) 971.
blame; lay blame upon, cast blame upon; censure, fronder, reproach,
pass censure on, reprobate, impugn.
remonstrate, expostulate, reciminate.
reprehend, chide, admonish; berate, betongue; bring to account, call
to account, call over the coals, call to order; take to task, reprove,
lecture, bring to book; read a lesson, read a lecture to; rebuke, correct.
reprimand, chastise, castigate, lash, blow up, trounce, trim, laver la
tete, overhaul; give it one, give it one finely; gibbet.
accuse &c. 938; impeach, denounce; hold up to reprobation, hold up to
execration; expose, brand, gibbet, stigmatize; show up, pull up, take up;
cry "shame" upon; be outspoken; raise a hue and cry against.
execrate &c. 908; exprobate, speak daggers, vituperate; abuse, abuse
like a pickpocket; scold, rate, objurgate, upbraid, fall foul of; jaw;
rail, rail at, rail in good set terms; bark at; anathematize, call names;
call by hard names, call by ugly names; avile|, revile; vilify, vilipend;
bespatter; backbite; clapperclaw; rave against, thunder against, fulminate
against; load with reproaches.
exclaim against, protest against, inveigh against, declaim against,
cry out against, raise one's voice against.
decry; cry down, run down, frown down; clamor, hiss, hoot, mob,
ostracize, blacklist; draw up a round robin, sign a round robin.
animadvert upon, reflect upon; glance at; cast reflection, cast
reproach, cast a slur upon; insinuate, damn with faint praise; "hint a
fault and hesitate dislike"; not to be able to say much for.
scoff at, point at; twit, taunt &c. (disrespect) 929; sneer at &c.
(despise) 230; satirize, lampoon; defame &c. (detract) 934; depreciate,
find fault with, criticize, cut up; pull to pieces, pick to pieces; take
exception; cavil; peck at, nibble at, carp at; be censorious &c. adj.; pick
holes, pick a hole, pick a hole in one's coat; make a fuss about.
take down, set down; snub, snap one up, give a rap on the knuckles;
throw a stone at, throw a stone in one's garden; have a fling, have a snap
at; have words with, pluck a crow with; give one a wipe, give one a lick
with the rough side of the tongue.
incur blame, excite disapprobation, scandalize, shock, revolt; get a
bad name, forfeit one's good opinon, be under a cloud, come under the
ferule, bring a hornet's nest about one's ears.
take blame, stand corrected; have to answer for.
Adj. disapproving &c.v.; scandalized.
disparaging, condemnatory, damnatory, denunciatory, reproachful,
abusive, objurgatory, clamorous, vituperative; defamatory &c. 934.
satirical, sarcastic, sardonic, cynical, dry, sharp, cutting, biting,
severe, withering, trenchant, hard upon; censorious, critical, captious,
carping, hypercritical; fastidious &c. 868; sparing of praise, grudging
praise.
disapproved, chid &c.v.; in bad odor, blown upon, unapproved; unblest;
at a discount, exploded; weighed in the balance and found wanting.
blameworthy, reprehensible &c. (guilt) 947; to blame, worthy of blame;
answerable, uncommendable, exceptionable, not to be thought of; bad &c.
649; vicious &c. 945.
unlamented, unbewailed, unpitied.
Adv. with a wry face; reproachfully &c. adj.
Int. it is too bad! it won't do, it will never do! marry come up! Oh!
come! 'sdeath!
forbid it Heaven! God forbid, Heaven forbid! out upon, fie upon it!
away with! tut! O tempora! O mores! shame! fie, fie for shame! out on you!
tell it not in Gath!

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#933. Flattery. -- N. flattery, adulation, gloze; blandishment,
blandiloquence; cajolery; fawning, wheedling &c.v.; captation, coquetry,
obsequiousness, sycophancy, flunkeyism, toadeating, tuft-hunting;
snobbishness.
incense, honeyed words, flummery; bunkum, buncombe; blarney, placebo,
butter; soft soap, soft sawder; rose water.
voice of the charmer, mouth honor; lip homage; euphemism; unctuousness
&c. adj.
V. flatter, praise to the skies, puff; wheedle, cajole, glaver, coax;
fawn upon, faun upon; humor, gloze, soothe, pet, coquet, slaver, butter;
jolly [U.S.]; bespatter, beslubber, beplaster, beslaver; lay it on thick,
overpraise; earwig, cog, collogue; truckle to, pander to, pandar to, pay
court to; court; creep into the good graces of, curry favor with, hang on
the sleeve of; fool to the top of one;s bent; lick the dust.
lay the flattering unction to one's soul, gild the pill, make things
pleasant.
overestimate &c. 482; exaggerate &c. 549.
Adj. flattering &c.v.; adulatory; mealy-mouthed, honey-mouthed;
honeyed; smooth, smooth-tongued; soapy, oily, unctuous, blandiloquent,
specious; fine-spoken, fair spoken; plausible, servile, sycophantic,
fulsome; courtierly, courtier-like.
Adv. ad captandum.

#934. Detraction. -- N. detraction, disparagement, depreciation,
vilification, obloquy, scurrility, scandal, defamation, aspersion,
traducement, slander, calumny, obtrectation, evil-speaking, backbiting,
scandalum magnatum.
personality, libel, lampoon, skit, pasquinade; chronique scandaleuse;
roor-back [U.S.].
sarcasm, cynicism; criticism (disapprobation) 932; invective &c. 932;
envenomed tonguep; spretae injuria formae.
detractor &c. 936.
V. detract, derogate, decry, depreciate, disparage; run down, cry
down; backcap [U.S.]; belittle; sneer at &c. (contemn) 930; criticize, pull
to pieces, pick a hole in one's coat, asperse, cast aspersions, blow upon,
bespatter, blacken, vilify, vilipend; avile|; give a dog a bad name, brand,
malign; muckrake; backbite, libel, lampoon, traduce, slander, defame,
calumniate, bear false witness against; speak ill of behind one's back.
fling dirt &c. (disrespect) 929; anathematize &c. 932; dip the pen in
gall, view in a bad light.
Adj. detracting &c.v.; defamatory, detractory, derogatory;
disparaging, libelous; scurrile, scurrilous; abusive; foul-spoken, foul-
tongued, foul-mouthed; slanderous; calumnious, calumniatory; sarcastic,
sardonic; satirical, cynical.
Phr. "damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer; and without
sneering, teach the rest to sneer" [Pope]; another lie nailed to the
counter; "cut men's throats with whisperings" [B. Jonson]; "foul
whisperings are abroad" [Macbeth] "soft-buzzing slander" [Thomson]; "virtue
itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes" [Hamlet].

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#935. Flatterer. -- N. flatterer, adulator; eu-logist, eu-phemist;
optimist, encomiast, laudator, whitewasher.
toady, toadeater; sycophant, courtier, Sir Pertinax MacSycophant;
flaneur, proneur; puffer, touter, claqueur; clawback, earwig, doer of dirty
work; parasite, hanger-on &c. (servility) 886.
Phr. pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes [Tacitus].

#936. Detractor. -- N. detractor, reprover; censor, censurer; cynic,
critic, caviler, carper, word-catcher, frondeur; barracker.
defamer, backbiter, slanderer, Sir Benjamin Backbite, lampooner,
satirist, traducer, libeler, caluminiator, dawplucker, Thersites; Zoilus;
good-natured friend [satirically]; reviler, vituperator, castigator; shrew
&c. 901; muckraker.
disapprover, laudator temporis acti [Horace].
Adj. black-mouthed, abusive &c. 934.

#937. Vindication. -- N. vindication, justification, warant;
exoneration, exculpation; acquittal &c. 970; whitewashing.
extenuation; palliation, palliative; softening, mitigation.
reply, defense; recrimination &c 938.
apology, gloss, varnish; plea &c. 617; salvo; excuse, extenuating
circumstances; allowance, allowance to be made; locus paenitentiae.
apologist, vindicator, justifier; defendant &c. 938.
justifiable charge, true bill.
v. justify, warrant; be an excuse &c. n.for; lend a color, furnish a
handle; vindicate; exculpate, disculpate; acquit &c. 970; clear, set right,
exonerate, whitewash; clear the skirts of.
extenuate, palliate, excuse, soften, apologize, varnish, slur, gloze;
put a gloss, put a good face upon; mince; gloss over, bolster up, help a
lame dog over a stile.
advocate, defend, plead one's cause; stand up for, stick up for, speak
up for; contend for, speak for; bear out, keep in countenance, support;
plead &c, 617; say in defense; plead ignorance; confess and avoid, propugn,
put in a good word for.
take the will for the deed, make allowance for, do justice to; give
one his due, give the Devil his due.
make good; prove the truth of, prove one's case; be justified by the
event.
Adj. vindicated, vindicating &c v.; exculpatory; apologetic.
excusable, defensible, pardonable; venial, veniable; specious,
plausible, justifiable.
Phr. "honi sot qui mal y pense;" "good wine needs no bush."

#938. Accusation. -- N. accusation, charge, imputation, slur,
inculpation, exprobration, delation; crimination; incrimination,
accrimination, recrimination; tu quoque argument; invective &c. 932.
denunciation, denouncement; libel, challenge, citation, arraignment;
impeachment, appeachment; indictment, bill of indictment, true bill;
lawsuit &c. 969; condemnation &c. 971.
gravamen of a charge, head and front of one's offending, argumentum ad
hominem; scandal &c. (detraction) 934; scandalum magnatum.
accuser, prosecutor, plaintiff; relator, informer; appellant.
accused, defendant, prisoner, panel, respondent; litigant.
V. accuse, charge, tax, impute, twit, taunt with, reproach.
brand with reproach; stigmatize, slur; cast a stone at, cast a slur
on; incriminate, criminate; inculpate, implicate; call to account &c.
(censure) 932; take to blame, take to task; put in the black book.
inform against, indict, denounce, arraign; impeach, appeach; have up,
show up, pull up; challenge, cite, lodge a complaint; prosecute, bring an
action against &c. 969; blow upon.
charge with, saddle with; lay to one's door, lay charge; lay the blame
on, bring home to; cast in one's teeth, throw in one's teeth; cast the
first stone at.
have a rod in pickle for, keep a rod in pickle for; have a crow to
pluck with.
trump up a charge.
Adj. accusing &c.v.; accusatory, accusative; imputative, denunciatory;
recriminatory, criminatory.
accused &c.v.; suspected; under suspicion, under a cloud, under
surveillance; in custody, in detention; in the lockup, in the watch house,
in the house of detention.
accusable, imputable; indefensible, inexcusable; unpardonable,
unjustifiable; vicious &c. 845.
Int. look at home; tu quoque &c. (retaliation) 718.
Phr. "the breath of accusation kills an innocent name" [Shelley];
"thou can'st not say I did it' [Macbeth].

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3. MORAL CONDITIONS

#939. Probity. -- N. probity, integrity, rectitude; uprightness &c.
adj.; honesty, faith; honor; bonne foi, good faith, bona fides; purity,
clean hands.
fairness &c. adj.; fair play, justice, equity, impartiality,
principle; grace.
constancy; faithfulness &c. adj.; fidelity, loyalty; incorruption,
incorrupibility.
trustworthiness &c. adj.; truth, candor, singleness of heart; veracity
&c. 543; tender conscience &c. (sense of duty) 926.
punctilio, delicacy, nicety; scrupulosity, scrupulousness &c. adj.;
scruple; point, point of honor; punctuality.
dignity &c, (repute) 873; respectability, respectableness &c. adj;
gentilhomme, gentleman; man of honor, man of his word; fidus Achates, preux
chevalier, galantuomo; truepenny, trump, brick; true Briton; white man *
[U.S.].
court of honor, a fair field and no favor; argumentum ad verecundiam.
V. be honorable &c. adj.; deal honorably, deal squarely, deal
impartially, deal fairly; speak the truth &c. (veracity) 543; draw a
straight furrow; tell the truth and shame the Devel, vitam impendere vero;
show a proper spirit, make a point of; do one's duty &c. (virtue) 944.
redeem one's pledge &c. 926; keep one's promise, be as good as one's
promise, be as good as one's word; keep faith with, not fail.
give and take, audire alteram partem, give the Devil his due, put the
saddle on the right horse.
redound to one's honor.
Adj. upright; honest, honest as daylight; veracious &c. 543; virtuous
&c. 944; honorable; fair, right, just, equitable, impartial, evenhanded,
square; fair and aboveboard, open and aboveboard; white * [U.S.].
constant, constant as the northern star; faithful, loyal, staunch;
true, true blue, true to one's colors, true to the core, true as the needle
to the pole; "marble-constant" [Antony and Cleopatra]; true-hearted,
trusty, trustworthy; as good as one's word, to be depended on,
incorruptible.
straightforward &c. (ingenuous) 703; frank, candid, open-hearted.
conscientious, tender-conscienced, right-minded; high-principled,
high-minded; scrupulous, religious, strict; nice, punctilious, correct,
punctual; respectable, reputable; gentlemanlike.
inviolable, inviol-ate; unviolated, unbroken, unbetrayed; unbought,
unbribed.
innocent &c. 946; pure, stainless; unstained, untarnished, unsullied,
untainted, unperjured; uncorrupt, uncorrupted; undefiled, undepraved,
undebauched; integer vitae scelerisque purus [Horace]; justus et tenax
propositi [Horace].
chivalrous, jealous of honor, sans peur et sans reproche; high-
spirited.
supramundane, unworldly, overscrupulous.
Adv. honorable &c. adj.; bona fide; on the square, in good faith,
honor bright, foro conscientiae, with clean hands.
Phr. "a face untaught to feign" [Pope]; bene qui latuit bene vixit
[Ovid]; mens sibi conscia recti; probitas laudatur et alget [Juvenal];
fidelis ad urnam; "his heart as far from fraud as heaven from earth" [Two
Gentlemen]; loyaute m'oblige; loyaute n'a honte; "what stronger breastplate
than a heart untainted?" [Henry VI].

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#940. Improbity. -- N. improbity; dishonesty, dishonor; deviation from
rectitude; disgrace &c. (disrepute) 874; fraud &c. (deception) 545; lying
&c. 544; bad faith, Punic faith; mala fides, Punica fides; infidelity;
faithlessness &c. adj.; Judas kiss, betrayal.
breach of promise, breach of trust, breach of faith; prodition|,
disloyalty, treason, high treason; apostacy &c. (tergiversation) 607;
nonobservance &c. 773.
shabbiness &c. adj.; villany; baseness &c. adj.; abjection,
debasement, turpitude, moral turpitude, laxity, trimming, shuffling.
perfidy; perfidiousness &c. adj.; treachery, double dealing;
unfairness &c. adj.; knavery, roguery, rascality, foul play; jobbing,
jobbery; graft; venality, nepotism; corruption, job, shuffle, fishy
transaction; barratry, sharp practice, heads I win tails you lose; mouth
honor &c. (flattery) 933.
V. be dishonest &c. adj.; play false; break one's word, break one's
faith, break one's promise; jilt, betray, forswear; shuffle &c. (lie) 544;
live by one's wits, sail near the wind.
disgrace oneself, dishonor oneself, demean oneself; derogate, stoop,
grovel, sneak, lose caste; sell oneself, go over to the enemy; seal one's
infamy.
Adj. dishonest, dishonorable; unconscientious, unscrupulous;
fraudulent &c. 545; knavish; disgraceful &c. (disreputable) 974; wicked &c.
945.
false-hearted, disingenuous; unfair, one-sided; double, double-
hearted, double-tongued, double-faced; timeserving, crooked,
tortuous,insidious, Machiavelian, dark, slippery; fishy; perfidious,
treacherous, perjured.
infamous, arrant, foul, base, vile, ignominious, blackguard.
contemptible, abject, mean, shabby, little, paltry, dirty, scurvy,
scabby, sneaking, groveling, scrubby, rascally, pettifogging; beneath one.
low-minded, low-thoughted; base-minded.
undignified, indign|; unbecoming, unbeseeming, unbefitting;
derogatory, degrading; infra dignitatem; ungentlemanly, ungentlemanlike;
unknightly, unchivalric, unmanly, unhandsome; recreant, inglorious.
corrupt, venal; debased, mongrel.
faithless, of bad faith, false, unfaithful, disloyal; untrustworthy;
trustless, trothless; lost to shame, dead to honor; barratrous.
Adv. dishonestly &c. adj.; mala fide, like a thief in the night, by
crooked paths.
Int. O tempora! O mores! [Cicero].
Phr. corruptissima respublica plurimae leges [Tacitus].