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plural of cur
Synonyms & Antonyms of curs
1
a person who shows a shameful lack of courage in the face of danger
- denounced as curs those police officers who deserted their posts during the hurricane and its aftermath
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Words Related to curs
- cream puffs,
- milquetoasts,
- pushovers,
- pussies
- [slang],
- weaklings,
- wimps
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2
a person whose behavior is offensive to others
- only a cur would abandon friends in their time of need
Synonyms for curs
- bastards,
- beasts,
- bleeders
- [British],
- blighters
- [chiefly British],
- boors,
- bounders,
- buggers,
- buzzards,
- cads,
- chuffs,
- churls,
- clowns,
- creeps,
- cretins,
- cruds
- [slang],
- crumbs
- [slang],
- dirtbags
- [slang],
- dogs,
- finks,
- heels,
- hounds,
- jerks,
- jokers,
- louses,
- louts,
- pills,
- rat finks,
- rats,
- reptiles,
- rotters,
- schmucks
- [slang],
- scumbags
- [slang],
- scums,
- scuzzballs
- [slang],
- skunks
- (also skunk),
- sleazebags
- [slang],
- sleazeballs
- [slang],
- sleazes,
- slimeballs
- [slang],
- slimes,
- slobs,
- snakes,
- so-and-sos
- (or so-and-so's),
- sods
- [chiefly British],
- stinkards,
- stinkers,
- swine,
- toads,
- varmints,
- vermin
Words Related to curs
- lowlifes
- (also lowlives),
- miscreants,
- rascals,
- rogues,
- roughnecks,
- scabs,
- scamps,
- scoundrels,
- villains,
- wretches
- boobies,
- doofuses
- (also dufuses)
- [slang],
- fools,
- jackasses,
- nincompoops,
- ninnies,
- nits
- [chiefly British],
- nitwits,
- nuts,
- schmoes
- [slang]
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