Words Involving Blame
Mean Words
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Words Ending In -ous
Words Beginning with C
100
adj.) deserving blame or correction
What is censurable?
100
adj.) mean, low, base
What is ignoble?
100
adj.) done for show, striving to make a big impression; claiming merit or position unjustifiably; making demands on one's skill or abilities, ambitious
What is pretentious?
100
adj.) very careful and exact, attentive to fine points of etiquette or propriety
What is punctilious?
100
n.) a loud ringing sound; v.) to make a loud ringing noise
What is clangor?
200
adj.) deserving blame, worthy of condemnation
What is culpable?
200
adj.) severe or stern in manner; without adornment or luxury, simple, plain; harsh or sour in flavor
What is austere?
200
adj.) grand in an impressive or stately way; marked by pompous affectation or grandeur, absurdly exaggerated
What is grandiose?
200
adj.) conspicuous, standing out from the mass (used particularly in an unfavorable sense)
What is egregious?
200
v.) to confirm, make more certain, bolster, substantiate, verify
What is corroborate?
300
n.) a breaking of a law or obligation
What is infraction?
300
adj.) stinging, bitter in temper or tone
What is acrimonious?
300
adj.) highly colored, reddish; excessively ornate, showy
What is florid?
300
adj.) cloudlike, resembling a cloud; cloudy in color, not transparent; vague, confused, indistinct
What is nebulous?
300
adj.) pale, gaunt, resembling a corpse
What is cadaverous?
400
v.) to rob goods by open force(as in war), plunder; (n.) the act of looting; booty
What is pillage?
400
n.) hatred, contempt; disgrace or infamy resulting from hateful conduct
What is odium?
400
adj.) marked by conspicuous or pretentious display, showy
What is ostentatious?
400
adj.) accidental, occurring by a happy chance
What is fortuitous?
400
v.) to prepare by combining ingredients, make up (as a dish); to devise, invent, fabricate
What is concoct?
500
(v.) to impose by fraud; to pass off as worthy or genuine; to bring about by stealth, dishonesty, or coercion
What is foist?
500
n.) a depraved, vicious, or unprincipled person, scoundrel; adj.) wicked, corrupt, or unprincipled; v.) to disapprove of, condemn
What is reprobate?
500
adj.) making a show of virtue or righteousness; hypocritically moralistic or pious, self-righteous, canting, holier-than-thou
What is sanctimonious?
500
adj.) harmful, injurious
What is deleterious?
500
adj.) coarse, unfeeling, stupid
What is crass?
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