Word Meanings - IMPROPERATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of upbraiding or taunting; a reproach; a taunt. Improperatios and terms of scurrility. Sir T. Browne

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• REPROACHER
  One who reproaches.
• TAUNTER
  One who taunts.
• SCURRILITY
  1. The quality or state of being scurrile or scurrilous; mean, vile, or obscene jocularity. Your reasons . . . have been sharp and sententious, pleasant without scurrility. Shak. 2. That which is scurrile or scurrilous; gross or obscene language;
• TAUNTING
  from Taunt, v. Every kind of insolent and taunting reflection. Burke.
• REPROACHFUL
  1. Expressing or containing reproach; upbraiding; opprobrious; abusive. The reproachful speeches . . . That he hath breathed in my dishonor here. Shak. 2. Occasioning or deserving reproach; shameful; base; as, a reproachful life. Syn.
• REPROACHLESS
  Being without reproach.
• UPBRAID
  twist, weave, or the kindred Icel. bregedha to draw, brandish, braid, 1. To charge with something wrong or disgraceful; to reproach; to cast something in the teeth of; -- followed by with or for, and formerly of, before the thing imputed.
• TAUNT
  Very high or tall; as, a ship with taunt masts. Totten.
• REPROACH
  LL. reproriare; L. pref. re- again, against, back + prope near; hence, originally, to bring near to, throw in one's teeth. Cf. 1. To come back to, or come home to, as a matter of blame; to bring shame or disgrace upon; to disgrace. I thought your
• TAUNTINGLY
  In a taunting manner.
• TAUNTRESS
  A woman who taunts.
• REPROACHABLR
  1. Deserving reproach; censurable. 2. Opprobrius; scurrilous. Sir T. Elyot. -- Re*proach"a*ble*ness, n. -- Re*proach"a*bly, adv.
• IRREPROACHABLY
  In an irreproachable manner; blamelessly.
• IRREPROACHABLENESS
  The quality or state of being irreproachable; integrity; innocence.
• SELF-REPROACHING
  Reproaching one's self. -- Self`-re*proach"ing*ly, adv.
• SELF-REPROACH
  The act of reproaching one's self; censure by one's own conscience.
• UNREPROACHABLE
  Not liable to be reproached; irreproachable.
• ATAUNT; ATAUNTO
  Fully rigged, as a vessel; with all sails set; set on end or set right.
• SELF-REPROACHED
  Reproached by one's own conscience or judgment.
• IRREPROACHABLE
  Not reproachable; above reproach; not deserving reproach; blameless. He erred, -- and who is free from error -- but his intentions were irreproachable. Beattie.