2. offering, oblation, tribute, offertory, propitiation; offering, sacrifice, incense, burnt offering, votive offering, peace offering.
libel, n. 1. defamation, denigration, vilification, vituperation, scandal, yellow journalism, Inf. skeleton in the closet; censure, reproach, denunciation, curse, malediction, railing, invective, commination, Archaic. exprobration; shame, disgrace, dishonor, ill-repute, obloquy, loss of face; belittlement, disparagement, deprecation, detraction, deflation, depreciation, derogation, devaluation; humiliation, humble pie, mortification; mockery, lampoon, pasquinade, squib.
2. calumny, slander, false report, misrepresentation, falsehood, lie, untruth, traducement; aspersion, imputation, insinuation, Inf. brickbat, innuendo; abuse, injury, backbiting, Archaic, malison; slur, blot, blot on the escutcheon, smear, smirch, stain, taint, tarnish, spot, black spot or mark; blemish, smudge, brand, stigma. -v. 3. defame, vilify, vilipend, denigrate, vituperate, scandalize, run down, berate, malign, revile, gibbet, impugn, criticize, pull to pieces, SI. do a hatchet job on, give a bad name, speak ill of, speak evil of, hold up to scorn, sneer at, muckrake; denounce, curse, rail, execrate, damn, imprecate, Obs. exprobate, anathematize, censure, cry down, reproach; disgrace, shame, dishonor, debase, vitiate, degrade, discredit, disprove, disfavor; belittle, disparage, detract, decry, deprecate, deflate, depreciate, devaluate, derogate; humiliate, humble, mortify, SI. put down; lampoon, mock, ridicule, satirize, pasquinade.
4. calumniate, slander, traduce, falsify, accuse falsely, misrepresent, belie, impute, asperse, insinuate; injure, abuse, insult, backbite, SI. badmouth, engage in personalities; slur, sully, defile, smear, smirch, besmirch, soil, stain, blacken, taint, attaint, tarnish, smudge, spot, brand, stigmatize, drag through the mud or mire, heap dirt upon, fling dirt, throw mud on, spatter, bespatter, SI. dump on.
libelous, adj. 1. defamatory, denigrating, vituperative, vilifying, vilipenditory; critical, denunciable, imprecatory, condemnatory, disapproving, disapprobatory, maledictory; scandalous, notorious, flagrant, outrageous; censurable, blameworthy, culpable, chargeable, accusable, impeachable, imputable; shameful, disgraceful, reproachable, dishonorable, discreditable, disfavorable, disreputable; debased, abased, vitiated, depraved, degenerate, corrupt; humbling, humiliating, mortifying; belittling, disparaging, deprecatory, derogatory, detracting, deflating, depreciating, devaluating; satirical, sarcastic, caustic, acrimonious, vitriolic, scathing.
2. slanderous, calumnious, calumniatory, traducent, false, untrue, maliciously false or untrue, misrepre-sentative, aspersive, imputative, insinuating, gossiping; abusive, thersitical, hurtful, scurrilous, Archaic. scurrile, injurious, contumelious, insulting, backbiting; defiling, sullying, soiling, staining, smearing, smirching, tainting, tarnishing, blemishing, smudging, stigmatizing.
liberal, adj. 1. progressive, forward-looking, pro-gressivist, reformist; radical, left-wing, leftist; libertarian, latitudinarian, libertine, free-thinking, liberal-minded, independent; humanistic, enlightened, up-to-date, modern.
2. tolerant, indulgent, unbigoted, unprejudiced, unbiased, unjaundiced, unwarped; open-minded, broadminded, large-minded, broad, unhidebound, broad-gauged; unprovincial, unparochial, catholic, ecumenical, cosmopolitan; dispassionate, disinterested, impartial, unopinionated.
3. generous, beneficient, charitable, bounteous; munificent, philanthropic, humanitarian, magnanimous, big, big-hearted; unselfish, altruistic, benevolent, benign, benignant; open-handed, unstinting, giving, ungrudging, unsparing; kind, kindhearted, sympathetic, compassionate, gracious; handsome, princely, lordly, royal, regal.
