blackguardism

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Noun
  • The court decision triggered calls from Republicans and Democrats alike to fund the bill, as well as criticism about the impact of partisan politics on delaying a program focused on youth literacy.
    Cleo Krejci, jsonline.com, 8 July 2025
  • That decision drew sharp criticism from European football chiefs.
    Matt Slater, New York Times, 8 July 2025
Noun
  • Douglas McCarthy, the vocalist who hectored anarchic invective with EBM innovators Nitzer Ebb and who joined Depeche Mode keyboardist Alan Wilder’s Recoil side project, died Wednesday at the age of 58.
    Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 12 June 2025
  • His tommy-gun dialogue, much of it laced with withering invective and punctuated with profanity, started a shift in the language of both theater and movies in this country.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 30 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Patrick’s statement is an extraordinary public rebuke of French, who has made many inflammatory comments on social media — most of them without political consequence — since the county’s Republican Party elected him chair in fall 2023.
    Cody Copeland, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 June 2025
  • After Trump’s rebukes, Gabbard updated her analysis to align with the president’s.
    Elizabeth Crisp, The Hill, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • The politicization of the COVID response has only worsened this trend, likely resulting in part from Trump’s vituperation.
    Matt Motta, Scientific American, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Flash forward 92-plus years to Donald Trump’s rally Sunday at New York’s Madison Square Garden, a bleak, lurid festival of racist hate and profane vituperation so vile that even fellow Republicans, who have turned a blind eye to Trump’s character for years, are distancing themselves from the event.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Amster has to return $10,000 to Diaz’s mother, attend ethics school and will receive a public reprimand.
    David J. Neal July 3, Miami Herald, 3 July 2025
  • Humphrey did not suspend Willis, but issued a letter of reprimand that can be factored into future disciplinary decisions.
    Josh Wood, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • The dad was arrested and charged with two counts of child abuse.
    Kate Linderman, Kansas City Star, 30 June 2025
  • President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans say the bill would cut waste, fraud and abuse from Medicaid, providing coverage only to those who truly need it.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • The eighteenth century also saw the rise of opprobrium for couples made of tall women and short men.
    Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 28 June 2025
  • Image The worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza has ignited growing international opprobrium against the Israeli campaign against Hamas.
    Iyad Abuheweila, New York Times, 21 May 2025
Noun
  • In the appeal to you, gentle readers, to email us with your thoughts, questions, reproofs, corrections, jokes, recipes, etc.
    Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 9 May 2025
  • Advertisement China’s Foreign Ministry also issued a vehement reproof.
    Elaine Kurtenbach, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2024
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“Blackguardism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blackguardism. Accessed 11 Jul. 2025.

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