blackguardism

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Noun
  • Be willing to listen to criticism.
    Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Traders landing six-figure payouts associated with the capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and the death of Iran's supreme leader drew criticism from lawmakers in Washington and critics of the apps.
    Bobby Allyn, NPR, 6 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Some of those pushing anti-Jewish invective on the right are opportunists.
    Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2026
  • After years of inflammatory social-media posts and antisemitic invective, Kanye West has taken out a full-page ad in The Wall Street Journal that traces his erratic behavior to his 2002 car crash.
    Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 26 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The move amounted to a sharp rebuke of Bondi by Republicans who have been clamoring for information about Epstein's abuse of young girls and his interactions with rich and powerful people.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Nawrocki, a right-wing historian, has played a crucial role in the party’s efforts to rewrite Poland’s Holocaust history — making Stola’s reappointment a rebuke of the country’s largest political party by its governing coalition.
    Shira Li Bartov, Sun Sentinel, 2 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • The watchdog agency’s panel recommended Friday that the costs of the proceedings be taxed against Peffer, in addition to the 30-day suspension, public reprimand and fine.
    Angie DiMichele, Sun Sentinel, 28 Feb. 2026
  • If the justices uphold the public reprimand, which is the harshest sanction available, Givens would not be allowed to serve as a visiting judge.
    Jane Harper, Dallas Morning News, 25 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Those were the cameras that captured the guards’ abuse and neglect of Mitchell four years later.
    USA Today, USA Today, 8 Mar. 2026
  • Evaluating this requires examining abuses, military aggression, humanitarian violations, sanctions, and judgments by bodies like the United Nations and the International Court of Justice.
    Ken Barnes, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The standoff centered on the now-former assistant attorney general’s public and internal castigation of pediatric gender medicine.
    Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 31 Jan. 2026
  • His reverence for hip-hop led to a poignant self-reflection on whether his new approach would be the subject of castigation among the hip-hop faithful.
    Devin Robertson, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • Who was merely a social or business connection, and who engaged in conduct that was criminal, or at the very least worthy of opprobrium?
    Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2026
  • The post was deleted after other commenters were more pointed in their opprobrium.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 15 Feb. 2026
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“Blackguardism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blackguardism. Accessed 9 Mar. 2026.

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