Word Meanings - BEDAUB - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To daub over; to besmear or soil with anything thick and dirty. Bedaub foul designs with a fair varnish. Barrow.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BEDAUB)
- Bespatter
- Besprinkle
- befoul
- bedaub
- revile
- vilify
- asperse
- Blacken
- defame
- decry
- calumniate
- dishonor
- traduce
- slander
- malign
Related words: (words related to BEDAUB)
- MALIGNITY
1. The state or quality of being malignant; disposition to do evil; virulent enmity; malignancy; malice; spite. 2. Virulence; deadly quality. His physicians discerned an invincible malignity in his disease. Hayward. 3. Extreme evilness of nature - TRADUCENT
Slanderous. Entick. - DEFAMER
One who defames; a slanderer; a detractor; a calumniator. - BLACKEN
Etym: 1. To make or render black. While the long funerals blacken all the way. Pope 2. To make dark; to darken; to cloud. "Blackened the whole heavens." South. 3. To defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous; as, vice blackens - 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. - TRADUCEMENT
The act of traducing; misrepresentation; ill-founded censure; defamation; calumny. Shak. - REVILEMENT
The act of reviling; also, contemptuous language; reproach; abuse. Spenser. - MALIGNANT
Tending to produce death; threatening a fatal issue; virulent; as, malignant diphtheria. Malignant pustule , a very contagious disease, transmitted to man from animals, characterized by the formation, at the point of reception of the virus, of - SLANDER
Formerly, defamation generally, whether oral or written; in modern usage, defamation by words spoken; utterance of false, malicious, and defamatory words, tending to the damage and derogation of another; calumny. See the Note under Defamation. - DECRY
To cry down; to censure as faulty, mean, or worthless; to clamor against; to blame clamorously; to discredit; to disparage. For small errors they whole plays decry. Dryden. Measures which are extolled by one half of the kingdom are naturally decried - MALIGNANCE; MALIGNANCY
Virulence; tendency to a fatal issue; as, the malignancy of an ulcer or of a fever. 4. The state of being a malignant. Syn. -- Malice; malevolence; malignity. See Malice. (more info) 1. The state or quality of being malignant; extreme malevolence; - VILIFY
1. To make vile; to debase; to degrade; to disgrace. When themselves they vilified To serve ungoverned appetite. Milton. 2. To degrade or debase by report; to defame; to traduce; to calumniate. I. Taylor. Many passions dispose us to depress and - MALIGNANTLY
In a malignant manner. - CALUMNIATE
To accuse falsely and maliciously of a crime or offense, or of something disreputable; to slander; to libel. Hatred unto the truth did always falsely report and calumniate all godly men's doings. Strype. Syn. -- To asperse; slander; defame; vilify; - REVILE
Reproach; reviling. The gracious Judge, without revile, replied. Milton. - TRADUCE
as a spectacle, disgrace, transfer, derive; trans across, over + ducere to lead: cf. F. traduire to transfer, translate, arraign, fr. 1. To transfer; to transmit; to hand down; as, to traduce mental qualities to one's descendants. Glanvill. 2. - ASPERSER
One who asperses; especially, one who vilifies another. - BESPRINKLER
One who, or that which, besprinkles. - DISHONOR
The nonpayment or nonacceptance of commercial paper by the party on whom it is drawn. Syn. -- Disgrace; ignominy; shame; censure; reproach; opprobrium. (more info) deshonur, F. déshonneur; pref. des- + honor, honur, F. 1. Lack of honor; - BESPATTER
1. To soil by spattering; to sprinkle, esp. with dirty water, mud, or anything which will leave foul spots or stains. 2. To asperse with calumny or reproach. Whom never faction could bespatter. Swift. - ISLANDER
An inhabitant of an island. - NONMALIGNANT
Not malignant, as a disease.