Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases

CLASS VI SECTION IV. 2. MORAL SENTIMENTS

928. Respect -- N. respect, regard, consideration; courtesy &c 894; attention, deference, reverence, honor, esteem, estimation, veneration, admiration; approbation &c 931.

929. Disrespect -- N. disrespect, disesteem, disestimation ^† ; disparagement &c (dispraise) 932, (detraction) 934.

930. Contempt -- N. contempt, disdain, scorn, sovereign contempt; despisal ^† , despiciency ^† ; despisement ^† ; vilipendency ^† , contumely; slight, sneer, spurn, by-word; despect ^† .

931. Approbation -- N. approbation; approval, approvement ^† ; sanction, advocacy; nod of approbation; esteem, estimation, good opinion, golden opinions, admiration; love &c 897; appreciation, regard, account, popularity, kudos, credit; repute &c 873; best seller.

932. Disapprobation -- N. disapprobation, disapproval; improbation ^† ; disesteem, disvaluation ^† , displacency ^† ; odium; dislike &c 867.

933. Flattery -- N. flattery, adulation, gloze; blandishment, blandiloquence ^† ; cajolery; fawning, wheedling &c v.; captation ^† , coquetry, obsequiousness, sycophancy, flunkeyism ^† , toadeating ^† , tuft-hunting; snobbishness.

934. Detraction -- N. detraction, disparagement, depreciation, vilification, obloquy, scurrility, scandal, defamation, aspersion, traducement, slander, calumny, obtrectation ^† , evil-speaking, backbiting, scandalum magnatum [Lat.] .

935. Flatterer -- N. flatterer, adulator; eulogist, euphemist; optimist, encomiast, laudator [Lat.] , whitewasher.

936. Detractor -- N. detractor, reprover; censor, censurer; cynic, critic, caviler, carper, word-catcher, frondeur; barracker ^† .

937. Vindication -- N. vindication, justification, warrant; exoneration, exculpation; acquittal &c 970; whitewashing.

938. Accusation -- N. accusation, charge, imputation, slur, inculpation, exprobration ^† , delation; crimination; incrimination, accrimination ^† , recrimination; tu quoque argument [Lat.] ; invective &c 932.