Thesaurus of English words and phrases : classified and arranged so as to facilitate the expression of ideas and assist in literary composition / by Peter Mark Roget ; enlarged and improved, partly from the author's notes, and with a full index, by John Lewis Roget.

Peter Mark Roget

Date:: 1894

Credit: Thesaurus of English words and phrases : classified and arranged so as to facilitate the expression of ideas and assist in literary composition / by Peter Mark Roget ; enlarged and improved, partly from the author's notes, and with a full index, by John Lewis Roget. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$keyism, toad-eating, tuffc-hunting-, snob- bishness. incense, honeyed words, flummery; hun-kum, -combe ; blarney, placebo, but- ter ; soft -soap, - sawder ; rose water. voice of the charmer, mouth honour; lip-homage; eupheroism; unctuousness &c. adj. V. Hatter, praise to the skies, puff; wheedle, cajole, glaver, coax; fawn,- upon ; humour, gloze, soothe, pet, co- quet, slaver, butter; be-spatter, -slubber, -plaster, -slaver; lay it on thick, over- praise ; earwig, cog, collogue; truckle pander or pandar -, pay court- to; court; creep into the good graces of; purry favour with, hang on the sleeve of; fool to the top of one's bent; lick the dust. lay the flattering imction to one's Boul, gild the pill, make things pleasant, overestimate &c. 482 ; exaggerate &c. 549- Adj. flattering &c. v.; adulatory; mealy- honey - mouthed ; honeyed ; smooth, - tongued; soapy, oily, unc- tuous, blandiloquent, specious; fine-, fair-spoken; plausible, servile, syco- phantic, fulsome; courtier-ly, -like. Adv. ad captandum. 935. Platterer.—nr. flatterer, adulator ; eu-logist, -phemist; optimist, encomiast, laudato^-, whitewasher. toad-y, -eater; sycophant, courtier, Sir Pertinax MacSycophant; Jldnmr, 2)r6neur ; puffer, touter, claqueur; claw- back, ear-wig, doer of dirty work ; para- site, hanger on, &c. {scrvility) 886. 937. Vindication.—W. vindica- tion, justification, warrant; exoneration, exculpation ; acquittal &c. 970; white- washing. extenuation; pallia-tion,-tive; soften- ing, mitigation. reply, defence ; recrimination &C.938. apology, gloss, varnish; plea &c. 617; salvo; excuse, extenuating cir- cumstances ; allowance, - to be made; locus pccnitentice. apologist, vindicator, justifiei^; defen- dant &c. 938. justifiable charge, true bill. 322 der, calumny, obtrectation, evil-speak- ing, backbiting, scandalum magnaium. personality, libel, lampoon, skit, pas- quinade ; chronique acandaleuse. sarcasm, cynicism; criticism {disaj}- prohation) 932; invective &c, 932 ; en- venomed tongue ; spretce injui'ia fonme. detractor &:c. 936. _ V. detract, derogate, decry, depre- ciate, disparage; run -, cry- down; sneer at &c. {contemn) 930; criticize, pull to pieces, pick a hole in one's coat, asperse, cast aspersions, blow upon, be- spatter, blacken; vili-fy, -pend; avile; give a dog a bad name, brand, malign, backbite, libel, lampoon, traduce, slan- der, defame, calumniate, bear false wit- ness against; speak ill of behind one's back. *' damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer ; and without sneering, others teach to sneer.' fling dirt &c. (disrespect) 929; ana- thematize &c. 932 ; dip the pen in gall, view in a bad lierht. Adj. detracting &c. v.; defamatory, detractory, derogatory; disparaging, li- bellous ; scurril-e, -ous ; abusive ; foul- spoken, -tongued, -mouthed; slanderous: calumni-ous, -atory; sar-castic, -donic sathical, cynical. 936. Detractor.—iff. detractor, reprover; cens-or, -urer; cynic, critic, caviller, carper, wordcatcher,/ro«^?eMr. defamer, backbiter, slanderer. Sir Ber- jarnin Backbite, lampooner, satirist, tra- ducer, hbeller, calumniator, dawpluckei', Thersites ; Zoilus; good-natured frieml [satirically]; reviler, vituperator, cat- tigator ; shrew &c. 901. disapprover, laudator temimris acti. 938. Accusation.—W. accusa- tion, charge, imputation, slur, inculpation, exprobration, delation; crimination; in-, ac-, re-crimination; tu quoque argument; invective &c. 932. de-nunciation, -nouncement; libel, challenge, citation, arraignment ; iru-. ap-peachment; indictment, bill of indict- ment, true bill; lawsuit &c. 969 ; con- demnation &c. 971. ffravainen of a charge, head and froi of one's offending, argumerdum ad homi- nem ; scandal kc. {detraction) 934; scan- dalum magnatum.$