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/theuhr sit"i keuhl/, adj.scurrilous; foulmouthed; grossly abusive.[1640-50; THERSIT(ES) + -ICAL]
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thersitical — index scandalous Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
thersitical — [thər sit′i kəl] adj. [after THERSITES] loud and abusive … English World dictionary
thersitical — adjective a) Scurrilous, grossly defamatory. b) Caustic, obscenely and tactlessly abusive … Wiktionary
thersitical — /θɜˈsɪtɪkəl/ (say ther sitikuhl) adjective scurrilous; foul mouthed. {from Thersites, in Greek legend, the most vindictive, impudent, and foul mouthed of the Greeks at the siege of Troy + ical} …
thersitical — a. like Thersites, an ugly and scurrilous Greek in Greek legend; scurrilous; violent in speech … Dictionary of difficult words
thersitical — /theuhr sit i keuhl/, adj. scurrilous; foulmouthed; grossly abusive. [1640 50; THERSIT(ES) + ICAL] … Useful english dictionary
scandalous — I adjective arrant, atrocious, base, black, condemnatory, corrupt, damnatory, dastardly, defamatory, denunciatory, deplorable, despicable, discreditable, disgraceful, dishonorable, disreputable, disrespectable, execrable, facinorous, flagitious,… … Law dictionary
abusive — adj 1. affronting, insulting, offensive, off putting, unbearable, insufferable, intolerable, Brit. Inf. beastly, Archaic. affrontive; fulminatory, objurgatory, objurgative, contumelious; indecent, vulgar, obscene, lewd, licentious; smutty, filthy … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
foul — adj 1. contaminated, polluted, infected, adulterated, impure, defiled, tainted; spoiled, rotten, moldy, decayed, decomposed, carious, fetid, putrid, putrescent, putrefactive; ill smelling, evil smelling, Sl. funky, rancid, stinking, stinky, rank … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
foulmouthed — adj 1. profane, blackguardly, Obs. blackguard, Fescennine, rough spoken; scurrilous, Archaic. scurrile, thersitical, ribald. 2. vulgar, obscene, indecent, gross, vile, filthy, dirty, smutty, nasty, scatologic, scatological, Sl. raunchy; crude,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
