Word Meanings - OFFENCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of OFFENCE)

• Affront
• Outrage
• provocation
• insult
• ill-treatment
• abuse
• wrong
• offence
• Indignity
• Aggression
• Invasion
• attack
• onslaught
• encroachment
• assault
• incursion
• Nuisance
• Offence
• annoyance
• plague
• pest
• trouble
• Outbreak
• wantonness
• mischief
• ebullition
• violence
• indignity
• affront
• Scandal
• reproach
• disgrace
• defamation
• libel
• shame
• infamy
• detraction
• slander
• calumny
• opprobrium

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of OFFENCE)

• Respect
• salute
• honor
• praise
• flatter
• compliment
• gratify
• Laud
• approve
• commend
• Compose
• calm
• allay
• appease
• please
• soothe
• delight
• recreate
• entertain
• relieve
• refresh

Related words: (words related to OFFENCE)

• COMMENDATOR
  One who holds a benefice in commendam; a commendatary. Chalmers.
• FLATTER
  1. One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens. A flat-faced fulling hammer. A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc.
• OUTRAGEOUS
  Of the nature of an outrage; exceeding the limits of right, reason, or decency; involving or doing an outrage; furious; violent; atrocious. "Outrageous weeping." Chaucer. "The most outrageous villainies." Sir P. Sidney. "The vile, outrageous
• DELIGHTING
  Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.
• REPROACHER
  One who reproaches.
• APPROVEDLY
  So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner.
• SHAMEFAST
  Modest; shamefaced. -- Shame"fast*ly, adv. -- Shame"fast*ness, n. See Shamefaced. Shamefast she was in maiden shamefastness. Chaucer. is a blushing shamefast spirit. Shak. Modest apparel with shamefastness. 1 Tim. ii. 9 .
• TROUBLER
  One who troubles or disturbs; one who afflicts or molests; a disturber; as, a troubler of the peace. The rich troublers of the world's repose. Waller.
• COMMENDER
  One who commends or praises.
• 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
• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• OPPROBRIUM
  Disgrace; infamy; reproach mingled with contempt; abusive language. Being both dramatic author and dramatic performer, he found himself heir to a twofold opprobrium. De Quincey.
• ASSAULTABLE
  Capable of being assaulted.
• 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.
• DELIGHTLESS
  Void of delight. Thomson.
• SCANDAL
  Anything alleged in pleading which is impertinent, and is reproachful to any person, or which derogates from the dignity of the court, or is contrary to good manners. Daniell. Syn. -- Defamation; detraction; slander; calumny; opprobrium; reproach;
• INSULT
  1. The act of leaping on; onset; attack. Dryden. 2. Gross abuse offered to another, either by word or act; an act or speech of insolence or contempt; an affront; an indignity. The ruthless sneer that insult adds to grief. Savage. Syn. -- Affront;
• SCANDALOUSLY
  1. In a manner to give offense; shamefully. His discourse at table was scandalously unbecoming the digmity of his station. Swift. 2. With a disposition to impute immorality or wrong. Shun their fault, who, scandalously nice, Will needs mistake
• SCANDALUM MAGNATUM
  A defamatory speech or writing published to the injury of a person of dignity; -- usually abbreviated scan. mag.
• ONSLAUGHT
  1. An attack; an onset; esp., a furious or murderous attack or assault. By storm and onslaught to proceed. Hudibras. 2. A bloody fray or battle. Jamieson.
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• REBULLITION
  The act of boiling up or effervescing. Sir H. Wotton.
• DISRESPECTABILITY
  Want of respectability. Thackeray.
• BEFLATTER
  To flatter excessively.
• OVERTROUBLED
  Excessively troubled.
• DISAPPROVE
  1. To pass unfavorable judgment upon; to condemn by an act of the judgment; to regard as wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; to censure; as, to disapprove the conduct of others. 2. To refuse official approbation to; to disallow; to decline