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1 fling enough dirt and someone will stick
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2 fling/throw dirt at someone
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3 dirt
n. vuil; stof; roddelpraat[ də:t]1 vuil ⇒ modder; drek, stront; viezigheid, smerige troep♦voorbeelden:1 that woman is as cheap/common as dirt • dat is een ordinaire/vulgaire vrouwtreat someone like dirt • iemand als oud vuil behandelen¶ eat dirt • beledigingen (moeten) slikken, door het stof moeten〈 spreekwoord〉 fling enough dirt and someone will stick • 〈 ongeveer〉 wee de wolf die in een kwaad gerucht staat
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throw dirt enough, and some will stick — Persistent slander will eventually pass for truth. Cf. L. calumniare fortiter, et aliquid adhaerebit, slander strongly and some will stick. 1656 Trepan 34 She will say before company, Have you never had the French Pox? speak as in the sight of… … Proverbs new dictionary
throw dirt — verb a) To fling dust or similar. I hope...that you are ignorant of the whole affair, and are so bold only because you are blind...And blind enough; so that you blunder on through thick and thin, bespattering all that come in your way, according… … Wiktionary
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Detraction — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Detraction >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 detraction detraction disparagement depreciation vilification obloquy scurrility scandal defamation aspersion traducement slander calumny obtrectation … English dictionary for students
insult — v 1. affront, slight, Sl. put down, Sl. cut up, give offense to, disoblige; call names, Sl. rank out, fling dirt at, slap in the face, point at; denounce, decry, disparage, discredit, vilipend, depreciate, minimize; disdain, contemn, scout,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
snub — v 1. slight, turn one s back upon, U.S. Sl. brush off, turn up one s nose at, Sl. ritz, Inf. high hat; cut, give the cold shoulder to, Inf. cold shoulder, Inf. put the freeze on, look coldly upon; keep at arm s length, avoid, shun, stand or hold… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
asperse — v 1. slander, libel, traduce, calumniate, falsify, accuse falsely, misrepresent, belie, impute, insinuate; injure, abuse, assail, stab, insult, backbite, Sl. badmouth, cast aspersions, attack; slur, sully, defile, smear, smirch, besmirch, soil,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
backbite — v 1. defame, denigrate, vilify, vituperate, vilipend, scandalize, run down; berate, impugn, revile, blackguard, malign, gibbet, criticize, pull to pieces, Sl. do a hatchet job on, give a bad name, speak ill of, speak evil of, Sl. badmouth, gossip … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
belittle — v 1. disparage, decry, deprecate, demean, detract, deflate, derogate, Inf. talk down; mitigate, bate, lessen, attenuate, decrease, diminish, boil down, wither, shrivel, subtract from, cheapen, devaluate, depreciate, downgrade, degrade, lower,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
impute — v 1. accuse, charge, challenge, allege, assert, cite, implicate, incriminate, criminate, Obs., Rare. accriminate; point to, set down to, lay at the door of, saddle with, father upon, account for, call to or hold in account; arraign, impeach,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
libel — n 1. defamation, denigration, vilification, vituperation, scandal, yellow journalism, Inf. skeleton in the closet; censure, reproach, denunciation, curse, malediction, railing, invective, commination, Archaic. exprobration; shame, disgrace,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder