Verbs of violent criticism

words are the dress of disparage thoughts - chesterfield.

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Excoriate: 'to strip off the skin" metaphorically, "he would extol his own friends and excoriate his opponents"
Castigate: "to punish with the rod; to chastise, chasten or discipline; (also) " to rebuke or criticize severely" as " the girl would castigate him with angry words"
Revile: abuse or reproach in offensive or scandalous language. "He was a vilent man who would reward his followers and revile his enemies"
Derogate: "to propose a law against" when you derogate someone "you take away from" his importance.You disparage him in the eyes of others and detract from his influence as: "The author did everything in his power to derogate the President's reputation"
Inveigh: to attack with words.
Inpun: to fight against
Traduce:to lead across, to expose to shame through slanderous remarks.
Stigmatize: a mark of disgrace. When you stigmatize a person or a thing, you brand the object with a mark of shame.
Asperse: You sully and spot a man's reputation by "sprinkling" it with scandalous remarks.
Caluminate: the jealous always calumniate the successful
Disparage: we disparage his achievements - we belittle them.
Malign: When we malign a person we speak evil things about him behind his back.
Vituperate: "I listened to the prisoner vituperate the judge" That is, the prisoner railed at the judge and assailed him with abuse.
Vilify: when you vilify a person you are attempting to degrade and debase him or his acts and make them appear "vile" to others.

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The Big Bang Theory.

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Gunshot Piercing

Chill Gunshot Piercing It began, as all life-altering decisions do, with someone else’s fashion. My younger cousin walked in wearing purple ear studs—confident, casual, as if he had always been this stylish creature. I looked at him. He looked at me. The studs looked back at me and whispered, “Upgrade pending…” My wife sealed the matter in one line: “You will look good.” That was it. Proposal passed. No further discussion. A few days later, we went to the jeweller’s shop to buy a chain for our daughter. A normal, respectable outing. But destiny had other plans… and a small device that makes a sound like a stapler with attitude. My five-year-old grandson came along, purely for moral support—his own, not mine. The jeweller inspected my ears like an archaeologist discovering ancient ruins. “Ah! Old holes are there,” he declared, as if announcing hidden treasure. My wife took charge. She marked the exact spot on my earlobes with the seriousness of a surgeon and the confidence of ...

Same ease. Same certainty. No performance.

We went to the community departmental store, my grandson and I. I like walking with him. I’m quietly proud of it. Long ago, when I was young, I travelled in a car with a prominent man from our small town. My uncle sat beside him; I sat in front with the driver. He wasn’t loud. Didn’t instruct much. Authority sat on him like it had always belonged there. We had gone to a bigger town for Deepavali shopping. At one stop, my uncle got down, ran into a shop, and brought back two veshtis. The man didn’t touch them. Didn’t examine. Just glanced and said, almost lazily, “Take the one with the green border.” That was it. Decision made. No noise, no effort. Now I’m in a store again. Different time. Different company. My wife has given me a list. My grandson walks beside me, scanning shelves. At the biscuit aisle, he doesn’t fumble through brands. No debate. His eyes settle on a purple pa...

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