vituperation; scandal, 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.
2. calumny, libel, false report, misrepresentation, yellow journalism; traducement, falsehood, lie, untruth, aspersion, imputation, insinuation, Inf. brickbat, innuendo; abuse, injury, maliciousness, stricture, backbiting, Archaic, malison; slur, blot, blot on the escutcheon, smear, smirch, taint, attaint, stain, tarnish, spot, black spot or mark, blemish, smudge, brand, stigma.
-v. 3. defame, vilify, vilipend, denigrate, vituperate, scandalize, run down, berate, impugn, revile, Obs. avile, malign, gibbet, criticize, pull to pieces, SI. do a hatchet job on, give a bad name, speak ill of, speak evil of, sneer at, lampoon, pasquinade, muckrake; denounce, rail, curse, execrate, damn, imprecate, Obs. exprobrate, anathematize, censure, cry down, reproach; disgrace, dishonor, shame, debase, vitiate, degrade, discredit, disprove, disfavor; belittle, disparage, detract, decry, deprecate, depreciate, derogate, devaluate, deflate; humiliate, humble, mortify, SI. put down.
4. calumniate, libel, asperse, impute, traduce, falsify, accuse falsely, misrepresent, belie; injure, abuse, assail, stab, insult, backbite, SI. badmouth, engage in personalities; slur, sully, defile, smear, smirch, besmirch, soil, blacken, tarnish, taint, stain, smudge, blemish, spot, brand, stigmatize, drag through the mud or mire, heap dirt upon, fling dirt, throw mud on, SI. dump on. slang, n. I. lingo, colloquialism, vernacularism, vernacular, vocabulary; provincialism, regionalism, localism; vulgarism, barbarism; Americanism, Anglicism, Briticism, Gallicism; journalese, newspaperese, legalese, medicalese, officialese, collegese, newspeak.
2. argot, jargon, cant, shoptalk; jabber, gibber, gibberish, mumbo-jumbo, palaver, gobbledygook; thieves' Latin, pig Latin, peddlers' French, St. Giles' Greek.
slant, v. 1. slope, lean, incline, tilt, pitch, dip; bend, bias, shift, shelve, cant, list, keel; skew, curve, veer, swerve; deviate, diverge, angle off, bear off, bevel, sheer.
2. bias, bend, twist, screw, wrest, garble; distort, misrepresent, misreport, falsify; misquote, misrender, misconstrue, misinterpret; color, Inf. stretch, doctor, varnish, embellish, embroider.
-n. 3. slope, slanting, incline, inclination; pitch, obliquity, obliqueness, skewness, wryness; deflection, divergence, divagation, deviation; lean, leaning, angle, bias, bevel, bezel; tilt, sway, tip, cant, rake; grade, ramp, scarp, side; angularity, All Geol. syncline, anticline, anacline, catacline.
4. bias, one-sidedness, partiality, leaning, prejudice, tendency; distortion, misrepresentation, misinterpretation, misrendering, falsification; misreading, perversion, misconstruction, misusage, misquotation.
5. viewpoint, point of view, standpoint, stance, position; opinion, view, judgment, idea, impression, notion; approach, turn, bent, proclivity; attitude, aspect, angle, light. slanting, adj. sloping, oblique, slanted, inclined, tilted, atilt; leaning, stooping, canting, listing, diagonal; abaxial, plagihedral, rhomboidal, cater-cornered, Brit. wonky, Brit, skew-whiff; askew, skew, aslant, awry, wry, askant, asquint; biased, warped, shelvy, tipsy; All Geol. synclinal, anticlinal, anaclinal, cataclinal; acclivous, declivous, uphill, downhill.