Commination
71curse — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. execrate, damn, swear, denounce; blaspheme. n. malediction, imprecation, execration, anathema; bane, plague. See evil, adversity. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Malediction] Syn. oath, imprecation, blasphemy …
72threat — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Declaration of intention to harm Nouns 1. threat, menace, intimidation, commination, minacity, terrorism; empty threat, fulmination, sword or saber rattling; defiance; yellow menace or peril; blackmail,… …
73Malediction — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Malediction >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 malediction malediction malison curse imprecation denunciation execration anathema ban proscription excommunication commination thunders of the Vatican fulmination …
74threatening — I. a. 1. Menacing, minatory, minacious, comminatory. 2. Impending, impendent, imminent. II. n. Commination, threat, denunciation, menace, menacing …
75anathema — n 1. curse, malediction, imprecation, execration; fulmination, commination, denunciation, censure; condemnation, proscription, sentence, Theol. damnation; interdiction, excommunication, banishment, Eccles. ban. 2. the damned, the doomed, fallen… …
76aspersion — n 1. defamation, denigration, vilification, vituperation, scandal, yellow journalism, Inf. skeleton in the closet; censure, reproach, reflection, denunciation, curse, malediction, railing, invective, commination, revilement, animadversion,… …
77calumny — n 1. slander, libel, calumniation, false accusation, misrepresentation, falsehood, malicious falsehood, lie, untruth, traducement, aspersion, imputation, innuendo, Inf. brickbat, insinuation, reflection; abuse, injury, backbiting, mud slinging;… …
78damnation — n 1. condemnation, denunciation, commination, objurgation; censure, criticism, castiga tion, reproval. 2. excommunication; bell, book, and candle; proscription, exile, ban. 3. curse, U.S. Inf. cuss, oath, Archaic. malison, anathema, execration,… …
79defamation — n 1. denigration, vilification, vituperation, scandal, Inf. skeleton in the closet; censure, reproach, denunciation, railing, curse, malediction, invective, commination, Archaic. exprobration, revile ment, obloquy; belittlement, deprecation,… …
80derogation — n 1. discredit, disfavor, obloquy, loss of face; censure, reproach, invective, reflection, animadversion, disapproval, disapprobation, criticism, stricture; curse, denunciation, condemnation, execration, revilement, commination, fulmination,… …
