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  • 21libelous — adj 1. defamatory, denigrating, vituperative, vilifying, vilipenditory; critical, denunciable, imprecatory, condemnatory, disapproving, disapprobatory, maledictory; scandalous, notorious, flagrant, outrageous; censurable, blameworthy, culpable,… …

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  • 22scandalous — adj 1. disgraceful, shameful, dishonorable, degraded, inglorious; infamous, ignominious, odious, opprobrious, contemptible, despicable, sordid, detestable; degenerate, depraved, unmentionable, corrupt, reprehensible, debased, abased, vitiated,… …

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  • 23blemish — I UK [ˈblemɪʃ] / US noun [countable] Word forms blemish : singular blemish plural blemishes 1) a) a mark or spot that spoils the appearance of something b) a mark on someone s skin, such as a spot or a scar 2) a mistake or dishonest action that… …

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  • 24remittance man — A stipendiary. In popular usage, a dissolute member of the family sent afar to live on a remittance without further blemishing the family name. See stipendiary …

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  • 25IRGUN ẒEVA'I LE'UMMI — (Heb. National Military Organization – I.Ẓ.L., Eẓel, or the Irgun), a Jewish underground armed organization founded in Jerusalem in the spring of 1931 by a group of haganah commanders, headed by Avraham Tehomi, who had left the Haganah in protest …

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