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61censor — n 1. examiner, reader, inspector, reviewer; expurgator, bowdlerizer, abridger, amender; Mrs. Grundy. 2. faultfinder, critic, criticaster, Inf. knocker; carper, complainer, caviler; castigator, chastiser, censurer, reprimander, chider, scold,… …
62critic — n 1. commentator, reviewer, essayist, expositor, expounder, editor, editorialist, criticaster; censor, Mrs. Grundy, Grundyist, Rare. aristarch. 2. connoisseur, esthete, epicure; judge, arbiter, arbiter of taste, Latin, arbiter elegantiae; expert …
63detractor — n 1. belittler, disparager, deprecator, derogator, depredator; lampooner, satirist, muckrak er, hack; defamer, vilifier, vilipender, denigrator, scandalizer, impugner, asperser, backbiter, maligner, evil speaker, carper, caviler, Inf. knocker;… …
64faultfinder — n carper, caviler, quibbler, pettifogger, fussbudget, momus, smellfungus, Inf. nitpicker; critic, censor, Mrs. Grundy, Inf. fuddy duddy, Rare. arist arch; censurer, detractor, derogator, backbiter, Inf. knocker; crab, bear, curmudgeon, Inf. crank …
65foe — n 1. enemy, Literary. foeman, opponent, antagonist, adversary, attacker, combatant; rival, contestant, contender, competitor. 2. ill wisher, backbiter, slanderer, vilifier, traducer, calumniator …
66maligner — n 1. defamer, vilifier, vilipender, vitu perator, denigrator, scandalizer, asperser, impugner, backbiter, evil speaker, carper, caviler, Inf. knocker; censor, reviler, castigator, inveigher, reprover, disapprove^ denouncer, railer, curser,… …
67traducer — n 1. maligner, defamer, calumniator, slanderer, libeler, misrepresenter, liar, Inf. hatchet man; vilifier, asperser, denigrator, smearer, backbiter; defiler, vitiator, blackener, besmircher, mud or dirt flinger. 2. impugner, impeacher, attacker,… …
68vituperator — n 1. censurer, reviler, castigator, inveigher, reprover, disapprover, censor; denouncer, railer, curser, execrator, imprecator, anathematizer, critic; defamer, vilifier, vilipender, denigrator, scan dalizer, impugner, asperser, backbiter,… …
69backbite — [c]/ˈbækbaɪt / (say bakbuyt) verb (backbit, backbitten or, Colloquial, backbit, backbiting) –verb (t) 1. to attack the character or reputation of secretly. –verb (i) 2. to speak evil of the absent; gossip. –backbiter, noun –backbiting, noun …
70enemy — [n] someone hated or competed against adversary, agent, antagonist, archenemy, asperser, assailant, assassin, attacker, backbiter, bad person*, bandit, betrayer, calumniator, competitor, contender, criminal, defamer, defiler, detractor, disputant …
