blackguardism

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for blackguardism
Noun
  • Cuomo told reporters that Mamdani’s criticism of Israel had made Jewish people afraid to leave their homes.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Although there seems to be a lot of fan criticism towards Aleister Black and Zelina Vega's debut entrance as a couple on SmackDown, there are also fans who appeared to be in favor of the look.
    Matthew Couden, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Not surprisingly, Beijing has reacted to Lai’s address with a string of invective.
    Lyle Goldstein, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Rory McIlroy was the lightning rod for the invective, and so was his wife.
    Don Riddell, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The texts drew rebuke from Republican senators, prompting him to withdraw his nomination on Tuesday.
    Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The emails show the extent to which top officials were blindsided by the scope of the deficit and include an angry rebuke from the County Executive David Crowley's office.
    Vanessa Swales, jsonline.com, 17 Oct. 2025
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
  • Prior board records provided to the Herald by Rollins’ attorney last month shed light on the misconduct violation that led to the public reprimand.
    Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Just last season, he was suspended for three games after a hit to the head of Jacksonville Jaguars passer Trevor Lawrence, prompting a public reprimand from the NFL policy and rules administration.
    Michael Gallagher, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • This franchise was once labeled the Jail Blazers for an era in the early 2000s that included transgressions of marijuana use, dogfighting, domestic abuse, fighting and drag racing.
    Jason Quick, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Separate Oklahoma court records reviewed by PEOPLE show that Rodriquez was charged in 2021 with child neglect and domestic abuse — assault and battery in the presence of a child.
    Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Links with nonprofit group The recent castigations from progressive Democrats were driven in part by the Opportunity Caucus’s ties to One Main Street.
    Seth Klamann, Denver Post, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Like legions of dreamers before him, McGuirk started on film and TV sets as a PA, an often thankless job where random castigations from members of the cast or crew can be par for the course.
    Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Doctorow reserves perhaps his fiercest opprobrium for a very specific target: section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, signed into law by Bill Clinton in 1998.
    Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The opprobrium would be too loud.
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 7 Sep. 2025
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“Blackguardism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blackguardism. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.

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