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Word Meanings - BESPATTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To soil by spattering; to sprinkle, esp. with dirty water, mud, or anything which will leave foul spots or stains. 2. To asperse with calumny or reproach. Whom never faction could bespatter. Swift.

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  • MALIGNANT
    Tending to produce death; threatening a fatal issue; virulent; as, malignant diphtheria. Malignant pustule , a very contagious disease, transmitted to man from animals, characterized by the formation, at the point of reception of the virus, of
  • MALIGNITY
    1. The state or quality of being malignant; disposition to do evil; virulent enmity; malignancy; malice; spite. 2. Virulence; deadly quality. His physicians discerned an invincible malignity in his disease. Hayward. 3. Extreme evilness of nature
  • TRADUCENT
    Slanderous. Entick.
  • DEFAMER
    One who defames; a slanderer; a detractor; a calumniator.
  • BESMEAR
    To smear with any viscous, glutinous matter; to bedaub; to soil. Besmeared with precious balm. Spenser.
  • DECORATE
    To deck with that which is becoming, ornamental, or honorary; to adorn; to beautify; to embellish; as, to decorate the person; to decorate an edifice; to decorate a lawn with flowers; to decorate the mind with moral beauties; to decorate a hero
  • HONORABLE
    1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an
  • PURIFY
    1. To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air. 2. Hence, in figurative uses: To free from guilt
  • SIGNALIZE
    1. To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common; to distinguish. It is this passion which drives men to all the ways we see in use of signalizing themselves. Burke. 2. To communicate with by means of a signal; as, a ship
  • BLACKEN
    Etym: 1. To make or render black. While the long funerals blacken all the way. Pope 2. To make dark; to darken; to cloud. "Blackened the whole heavens." South. 3. To defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous; as, vice blackens
  • SLANDEROUS
    1. Given or disposed to slander; uttering slander. "Slanderous tongue." Shak. 2. Embodying or containing slander; calumnious; as, slanderous words, speeches, or reports. -- Slan"der*ous*ly, adv. -- Slan"der*ous*ness, n.
  • TRADUCEMENT
    The act of traducing; misrepresentation; ill-founded censure; defamation; calumny. Shak.
  • DETRACTIVE
    1. Tending to detractor draw. 2. Tending to lower in estimation; depreciative.
  • HONORABLENESS
    1. The state of being honorable; eminence; distinction. 2. Conformity to the principles of honor, probity, or moral rectitude; fairness; uprightness; reputableness.
  • ORNAMENTAL
    Serving to ornament; characterized by ornament; beautifying; embellishing. Some think it most ornamental to wear their bracelets on their wrists; others, about their ankles. Sir T. Browne.
  • DETRACTIVENESS
    The quality of being detractive.
  • BESMEARER
    One that besmears.
  • DETRACTINGLY
    In a detracting manner.
  • EMBLAZONING
    The act or art of heraldic decoration; delineation of armorial bearings.
  • SCANDALIZE
    1. To offend the feelings of the conscience of by some action which is considered immoral or criminal; to bring shame, disgrace, or reproach upon. I demand who they are whom we scandalize by using harmless things. Hooker. the congregation looked
  • SUSTAIN
    F. soutenir (the French prefix is properly fr. L. subtus below, fr. sub under), L. sustinere; pref. sus- + tenere to hold. See 1. To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support; as, a foundation sustains the superstructure; a beast sustains
  • SUSTAINABLE
    Capable of being sustained or maintained; as, the action is not sustainable.
  • ABSTAIN
    To hold one's self aloof; to forbear or refrain voluntarily, and especially from an indulgence of the passions or appetites; -- with from. Not a few abstained from voting. Macaulay. Who abstains from meat that is not gaunt Shak. Syn. -- To refrain;

 

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