BLACKGUARDED Synonyms: 56 Similar and Opposite Words

blackguarded

verb

past tense of blackguard

as in aspersed

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Outside, the guards were often genial and chatty; inside, visitors were treated as objects of suspicion, barked at and insulted.

— Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 13 July 2026
Platner insulted members of the military and belittled Bronze Star winners.

— Bobby Zirkin, Baltimore Sun, 9 July 2026

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Monaco was the first place Djokovic put down roots outside of Serbia.

— Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 10 July 2026
Customers for Peak who have put down a deposit include independent power providers Jupiter Power, Energy Vault and RWE Americas, who are connecting utilities, and increasingly data centers, with batteries.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026

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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
Pro-Cleveland newspapers disparaged Halpin’s character and ran reports that Blaine’s wife was pregnant before they were married.

— Tracy Grant, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 June 2026

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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
Thinking about it that way invests meaning in an anecdote Norris related about a member of the copy department so affronted by something a colleague had done that she was inspired to pick up an object and hurl it in that colleague’s general direction.

— Ben Yagoda, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025

Definition of affronted

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There was widespread agreement in the room that the takeover issue had been reported in a sensational way that unfairly vilified teenagers.

— Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 10 July 2026
Love was vilified for Cobain’s death, accused of complicity, exploitation, or worse, resulting in a real sense of danger.

— Quinn Moreland, Pitchfork, 14 June 2026

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