BLACKGUARDED Synonyms: 56 Similar and Opposite Words

blackguarded

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past tense of blackguard

as in aspersed

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At the time, TMZ reported that the fight started when the other inmate, whose identity was not made public, insulted the rapper.

— Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 5 Aug. 2026
After a May court hearing, Moreno alleged that Miller insulted Zashin's fiancee in front of witnesses at an Ohio courthouse, and alleged that after a hearing this week the congressman physically grabbed Zashin and another attorney.

— Jacob Rosen, CBS News, 31 July 2026

Definition of insulted

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Following her divorce, Frankie decides to put down roots in a glamorous London neighborhood, just her and her cat Blue.

— Caroline Reilly, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
Born between 1981 and 1996, millennials may be a generation strongly associated with a love of travel, but many of them are now looking to put down roots.

— Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 31 July 2026

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And at a White House cage fight, a former first lady was brazenly disparaged.

— Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2026
In recent months, the president has frequently disparaged Obama’s South Side Chicago presidential library, posting on Truth Social on June 13 an edited picture of its campus turned into a tent camp and the main building depicted as a trash can.

— Joseph Konig, PEOPLE, 1 July 2026

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Iraq similarly felt scandalized that its sovereignty had been so blatantly affronted and disregarded.

— Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
Many Idaho liberals of all ages were especially affronted by the fact that the Israeli government paid for the lawmakers’ travel, said Olivia Luna, the president of Idaho’s Babe Vote, who signed the letter as an individual calling for Rubel’s resignation.

— Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 30 Sep. 2025

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Lestat is treated as unworthy of Akasha’s (Sheila Atim) blood and his choice to turn Louis is belittled by the table because Louis was a pimp.

— Sabrina Reed, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
The women on that team didn’t ask to be the butt of a locker room joke, belittled by the President of the United States, no less.

— Candace Buckner, New York Times, 16 July 2026

Definition of belittled

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Kyrie Irving, Novak Djokovic, Aaron Rodgers, Cole Beasley, Tyler Bertuzzi, and every day Americans were relentlessly vilified for not taking an experimental drug during the pandemic.

— Jon Root OutKick, FOXNews.com, 31 July 2026
In The News A year after Cracker Barrel’s leadership was vilified online for changing the restaurant’s longtime logo to get rid of the old man leaning on a barrel, the CEO who was at the helm during the change is stepping down.

— Megan Poinski, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026

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