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874. Disrepute — N. disrepute, discredit; ill repute, bad repute, bad name, bad odor, bad favor, ill name, ill odor, ill favor; disapprobation &c 932; ingloriousness, derogation; abasement, debasement; abjectness &c adj.; degradation, dedecoration†; a long farewell to all my greatness [Henry VIII]; odium, obloquy, opprobrium, ignominy. dishonor, disgrace; shame, humiliation; scandal, baseness, vileness†; turpitude &c (improbity) 940 [Obs.]; infamy. tarnish, taint, defilement, pollution. stain, blot, spot, blur, stigma, brand, reproach, imputation, slur. crying shame, burning shame; scandalum magnatum [Lat.], badge of infamy, blot in one's escutcheon; bend sinister, bar sinister; champain†, point champain†; byword of reproach; Ichabod. argumentum ad verecundiam [Lat.]; sense of shame &c 879. V. be inglorious &c adj.; incur disgrace &c n.; have a bad name, earn a bad name; put a halter round one's neck, wear a halter round one's neck; disgrace oneself, expose oneself. play second fiddle; lose caste; pale one's ineffectual fire; recede into the shade; fall from one's high estate; keep in the background &c (modesty) 881; be conscious of disgrace &c (humility) 879; look blue, look foolish, look like a fool; cut a poor figure, cut a sorry figure; laugh on the wrong side of the mouth; make a sorry face, go away with a flea in. one's ear, slink away. cause shame &c n.; shame, disgrace, put to shame, dishonor; throw dishonor upon, cast dishonor upon, fling dishonor upon, reflect dishonor upon &c n.; be a reproach &c n.. to; derogate from. tarnish, stain, blot sully, taint; discredit; degrade, debase, defile; beggar; expel &c (punish) 972. impute shame to, brand, post, stigmatize, vilify, defame, slur, cast a slur upon, hold up to shame, send to Coventry; tread under foot, trample under foot; show up, drag through the mire, heap dirt upon; reprehend &c 932. bring low, put down, snub; take down a peg, take down a peg lower, take down a peg or two. obscure. eclipse, outshine, take the shine out of; throw into the shade, cast into the shade; overshadow; leave in the background, put in the background; push into a corner, put one's nose out of joint; put out, put out of countenance. upset, throw off one's center; discompose, disconcert; put to the blush &c (humble) 879. Adj. disgraced &c v.; blown upon; shorn of its beams [Milton], shorn of one's glory; overcome, downtrodden; loaded with shame &c n.; in bad repute &c n.; out of repute, out of favor, out of fashion, out of countenance; at a discount; under a cloud, under an eclipse; unable to show one's face; in the shade, in the background; out at elbows, down at the elbows, down in the world. inglorious; nameless, renownless†; obscure; unknown to fame; unnoticed, unnoted†, unhonored, unglorified†. shameful; disgraceful, discreditable, disreputable; despicable; questionable; unbecoming, unworthy; derogatory; degrading, humiliating, infra dignitatem [Lat.], dedecorous†; scandalous, infamous, too bad, unmentionable; ribald, opprobrious; errant, shocking, outrageous, notorious. ignominious, scrubby, dirty, abject, vile, beggarly, pitiful, low, mean, shabby base &c (dishonorable) 940. Adv. to one's shame be it spoken. Int. fie!, shame!, for shame!, proh pudor! [Lat.], O tempora!†, O mores!, ough!, sic transit gloria mundi! [Lat.],

875. Nobility — N. nobility, rank, condition, distinction, optimacy†, blood, pur sang [Fr.], birth, high descent, order; quality, gentility; blue blood of Castile; ancien regime [Fr.]. high life, haute monde [Fr.]; upper classes, upper ten thousand; the four hundred [U.S.]; elite, aristocracy, great folks; fashionable world &c (fashion) 852. peer, peerage; house of lords, house of peers; lords, lords temporal and spiritual; noblesse; noble, nobleman; lord, lordling†; grandee, magnifico [Lat.], hidalgo; daimio [Jap.], daimyo [Jap.], samurai [Jap.], shizoku [Jap.]; don, donship†; aristocrat, swell, three- tailed bashaw†; gentleman, squire, squireen†, patrician, laureate. gentry, gentlefolk; squirarchy [Slang], better sort magnates, primates, optimates†; pantisocracy†. king &c (master) 745; atheling†; prince, duke; marquis, marquisate†; earl, viscount, baron, thane, banneret†; baronet, baronetcy†; knight, knighthood; count, armiger†, laird; signior†, seignior; esquire, boyar, margrave, vavasour†; emir, ameer†, scherif†, sharif, effendi, wali; sahib; chevalier, maharaja, nawab, palsgrave†, pasha, rajah, waldgrave†. princess, begum†, duchess, marchioness; countess &c; lady, dame; memsahib; Do$a, maharani, rani. personage of distinction, man of distinction, personage of rank, man of rank, personage of mark, man of mark; notables, notabilities; celebrity, bigwig, magnate, great man, star, superstar; big bug; big gun, great gun; gilded rooster [U.S.]; magni nominis umbra [Lat.] [Lucan]; every inch a king [Lear]. V. be noble &c adj.. Adj. noble, exalted; of rank &c n.; princely, titled, patrician, aristocratic; high-, well-born; of gentle blood; genteel, comme il faut [Fr.], gentlemanlike†, courtly &c (fashionable) 852; highly respectable. Adv. in high quarters. Phr. Adel sitzt im Gemuthe nicht im Gebluete [G.]; adelig und edel sind zweierlei [G.]; noblesse oblige [Fr.].

876. Commonalty — N. commonalty, democracy; obscurity; low condition, low life, low society, low company; bourgeoisie; mass of the people, mass of society; Brown Jones and Robinson; lower classes, humbler classes, humbler orders; vulgar herd, common herd; rank and file, hoc genus omne [Lat.]; the many, the general, the crowd, the people, the populace, the multitude, the million, the masses, the mobility, the peasantry; king Mob; proletariat; fruges consumere nati [Lat.], demos, hoi polloi [Gr.], great unwashed; man in the street. mob; rabble, rabble rout; chaff, rout, horde, canaille; scum of the people, residuum of the people, dregs of the people, dregs of society; swinish multitude, foex populi†; trash; profanum vulgus [Lat.], ignobile vulgus [Lat.]; vermin, riffraff, ragtag and bobtail; small fry. commoner, one of the people, democrat, plebeian, republican, proletary†, proletaire†, roturier†, Mr. Snooks, bourgeois, epicier [Fr.], Philistine, cockney; grisette†, demimonde. peasant, countryman, boor, carle†, churl; villain, villein; terrae filius [Lat.], son of the land; serf, kern†, tyke, tike, chuff†, ryot†, fellah; longshoreman; swain, clown, hind; clod, clodhopper; hobnail, yokel, bog-trotter, bumpkin; plowman, plowboy†; rustic, hayseed [Slang], lunkhead [U.S.], chaw-bacon [Slang], tiller of the soil; hewers of wood and drawers of water, groundling†; gaffer, loon, put, cub, Tony Lumpkin†, looby†, rube [U.S.], lout, underling; gamin; rough; pot- wallopper†, slubberdegullion†; vulgar fellow, low fellow; cad, curmudgeon. upstart, parvenu, skipjack†; nobody, nobody one knows; hesterni quirites [Lat.], pessoribus orti [Lat.]; bourgeois gentilhomme [Fr.], novus homo [Lat.], snob, gent, mushroom, no one knows who, adventurer; man of straw. beggar, gaberlunzie†, muckworm†, mudlark†, sans culotte, raff†, tatterdemalion, caitiff, ragamuffin, Pariah, outcast of society, tramp, vagabond, bezonian†, panhandler [Slang], sundowner†, chiffonnier, Cinderella, cinderwench†, scrub, jade; gossoon†. Goth, Vandal, Hottentot, Zulu, savage, barbarian, Yahoo; unlicked cub†, rough diamond†. barbarousness, barbarism; boeotia. V. be ignoble &c adj., be nobody &c n.. Adj. ignoble, common, mean, low, base, vile, sorry, scrubby, beggarly; below par; no great shakes &c (unimportant) 643; homely, homespun; vulgar, low-minded; snobbish. plebeian, proletarian; of low parentage, of low origin, of low extraction, of mean parentage, of mean origin, of mean extraction; lowborn, baseborn, earthborn†; mushroom, dunghill, risen from the ranks; unknown to fame, obscure, untitled. rustic, uncivilized; loutish, boorish, clownish, churlish, brutish, raffish; rude, unlicked†. barbarous, barbarian, barbaric, barbaresque†; cockney, born within sound of Bow bells. underling, menial, subaltern. Adv. below the salt. Phr. dummodo sit dives barbarus ipse placet [Lat.] [Ovid].

877. Title — N. title, honor; knighthood &c (nobility) 875. highness, excellency, grace; lordship, worship; reverence, reverend; esquire, sir, master, Mr., signor, senor, Mein Herr [G.], mynheer†; your honor, his honor; serene highness; handle to one's name. decoration, laurel, palm, wreath, garland, bays, medal, ribbon, riband, blue ribbon, cordon, cross, crown, coronet, star, garter; feather, feather in one's cap; epaulet, epaulette, colors, cockade; livery; order, arms, shield, scutcheon; reward &c 973.

878. Pride — N. dignity, self-respect, mens sibi conscia recti [Lat.] [Vergil]. pride; haughtiness &c adj.; high notions, hauteur; vainglory, crest; arrogance &c (assumption) 885. proud man, highflier†; fine gentleman, fine lady. V. be proud &c adj.; put a good face on; look one in the face; stalk abroad, perk oneself up; think no small beer of oneself; presume, swagger, strut; rear one's head, lift up one's head, hold up one's head; hold one's head high, look big, take the wall, bear like the Turk no rival near the throne [Pope], carry with a high hand; ride the high horse, mount on one's high horse; set one's back up, bridle, toss the head; give oneself airs &c (assume) 885; boast &c 884. pride oneself on; glory in, take a pride in; pique oneself, plume oneself, hug oneself; stand upon, be proud of; put a good face on; not hide one's light under a bushel, not put one's talent in a napkin; not think small beer of oneself &c (vanity) 880. Adj. dignified; stately; proud, proud-crested; lordly, baronial; lofty- minded; highsouled, high-minded, high-mettled†, high-handed, high- plumed, high-flown, high-toned. haughty lofty, high, mighty, swollen, puffed up, flushed, blown; vainglorious; purse-proud, fine; proud as a peacock, proud as Lucifer; bloated with pride. supercilious, disdainful, bumptious, magisterial, imperious, high and mighty, overweening, consequential; arrogant &c 885; unblushing &c 880. stiff, stiff-necked; starch; perked stuck-up; in buckram, strait- laced; prim &c (affected) 855. on one's dignity, on one's high horses, on one's tight ropes, on one's high ropes; on stilts; en grand seigneur [Fr.]. Adv. with head erect. Phr. odi profanum vulgus et arceo [Lat.] [Horace]. a duke's revenues on her back [Henry VI]; disdains the shadow which he treads on at noon [Coriolanis]; pride in their port, defiance in their eye [Goldsmith].

879. Humility — N. humility, humbleness; meekness, lowness; lowliness, lowlihood†; abasement, self-abasement; submission &c 725; resignation. condescension; affability &c (courtesy) 894. modesty &c 881; verecundity†, blush, suffusion, confusion; sense of shame, sense of disgrace; humiliation, mortification; let down, set down. V. be humble &c adj.; deign, vouchsafe, condescend; humble oneself, demean oneself; stoop, stoop to conquer; carry coals; submit &c 725; submit with a good grace &c (brook) 826; yield the palm. lower one's tone, lower one's note; sing small, draw in one's horns, sober down; hide one's face, hide one's diminished head; not dare to show one's face, take shame to oneself, not have a word to say for oneself; feel shame, be conscious of shame, feel disgrace, be conscious of disgrace; drink the cup of humiliation to the dregs. blush for, blush up to the eves; redden, change color; color up; hang one's head, look foolish, feel small. render humble; humble, humiliate; let down, set down, take down, tread down, frown down; snub, abash, abase, make one sing small, strike dumb; teach one his distance; put down, take down a peg, take down a peg lower; throw into the shade, cast into the shade &c 874; stare out of countenance, put out of countenance; put to the blush; confuse, ashame†, mortify, disgrace, crush; send away with a flea in one's ear. get a setdown†. Adj. humble, lowly, meek; modest &c 881; humble minded, sober-minded; unoffended†; submissive &c 725; servile, &c 886. condescending; affable &c (courteous) 891. humbled &c v.; bowed down, resigned; abashed, ashamed, dashed; out of countenance; down in the mouth; down on one's knees, down on one's marrowbones, down on one's uppers; humbled in the dust, browbeaten; chapfallen†, crestfallen; dumfoundered†. flabbergasted. shorn of one's glory &c (disrepute) 874. Adv. with downcast eyes, with bated breath, with bended knee; on all fours, on one's feet. under correction, with due deference. Phr. I am your obedient servant, I am your very humble servant; my service to you; da locum melioribus [Lat.] [Terence]; parvum parva decent [Lat.] [Horace].

880. Vanity — N. vanity; conceit, conceitedness; self-conceit, self- complacency, self-confidence, self-sufficiency, self-esteem, self-love, self-approbation, self-praise, self-glorification, self-laudation, self-gratulation†, self-applause, self-admiration; amour propre [Fr.]; selfishness &c 943. airs, affected manner, pretensions, mannerism; egotism; priggism†, priggishness; coxcombry, gaudery†, vainglory, elation; pride &c 878; ostentation &c 882; assurance &c 885. vox et praeterea nihil [Lat.]; cheval de bataille [Fr.]. coxcomb &c 854; Sir Oracle &c 887. V. be vain &c adj., be vain of; pique oneself &c (pride) 878; lay the flattering unction to one's soul. have too high an opinion of oneself, have an overweening opinion of oneself, have too high an opinion of one's talents; blind oneself as to one's own merit; not think small beer of oneself, not think vin ordinaire of oneself [Fr.]; put oneself forward; fish for compliments; give oneself airs &c (assume) 885; boast &c 884. render vain &c adj.; inspire with vanity &c n.; inflate, puff up, turn up, turn one's head. Adj. vain, vain as a peacock, proud as a peacock; conceited, overweening, pert, forward; vainglorious, high-flown; ostentatious &c 882; puffed up, inflated, flushed. self-satisfied, self-confident, self-sufficient, self-flattering, self-admiring, self-applauding, self-glorious, self-opinionated; entente &c (wrongheaded) 481; wise in one's own conceit, pragmatical†, overwise†, pretentious, priggish; egotistic, egotistical; soi-disant &c (boastful) 884 [Fr.]; arrogant &c 885. unabashed, unblushing; unconstrained, unceremonious; free and easy. Adv. vainly &c adj.. Phr. how we apples swim! [Swift]; prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk [Cymbeline].

881. Modesty — N. modesty; humility &c 879; diffidence, timidity; retiring disposition; unobtrusiveness; bashfulness &c adj.; mauvaise honte [Fr.]; blush, blushing; verecundity†; self-knowledge. reserve, constraint; demureness &c adj.; blushing honors [Henry VIII]. V. be modest &c adj.; retire, reserve oneself; give way to; draw in one's horns &c 879; hide one's face. keep private, keep in the background, keep one's distance; pursue the noiseless tenor of one's way, do good by stealth and blush to find it fame [Pope], hide one's light under a bushel, cast a sheep's eye. Adj. modest, diffident; humble &c 879; timid, timorous, bashful; shy, nervous, skittish, coy, sheepish, shamefaced, blushing, overmodest. unpretending†, unpretentious; unobtrusive, unassuming, unostentatious, unboastful†, unaspiring; poor in spirit. out of countenance &c (humbled) 879. reserved, constrained, demure. Adv. humbly &c adj.; quietly, privately; without ceremony, without beat of drum; sans fa Phr. not stepping o'er the bounds of modesty [Romeo and Juliet]; thy modesty's a candle to thy merit [Fielding].

882. Ostentation — N. ostentation, display, show, flourish, parade, etalage [Fr.], pomp, array, state, solemnity; dash, splash, splurge, glitter, strut, pomposity; pretense, pretensions; showing off; fuss. magnificence, splendor; coup d'oeil [Fr.]; grand doings. coup de theatre; stage effect, stage trick; claptrap; mise en scene [Fr.]; tour de force; chic. demonstration, flying colors; tomfoolery; flourish of trumpets &c (celebration) 883; pageant, pageantry; spectacle, exhibition, exposition, procession; turn out, set out; grand function; fête, gala, field day, review, march past, promenade, insubstantial pageant. dress; court dress, full dress, evening dress, ball dress, fancy dress; tailoring, millinery, man millinery, frippery, foppery, equipage. ceremony, ceremonial; ritual; form, formality; etiquette; puncto [Lat.], punctilio, punctiliousness; starched stateliness, stateliness. mummery, solemn mockery, mouth honor. attitudinarian†; fop &c 854. V. be ostentatious &c adj.; come forward, put oneself forward; attract attention, star it. cut a figure, make a dash, make a splash, make a splurge, cut a dash, cut a splash, cut a splurge; figure, figure away; make a show, make a display; glitter. show off, show off one's paces; parade, march past; display, exhibit, put forward, hold up; trot out, hand out; sport, brandish, blazon forth; dangle, dangle before the eyes. cry up &c (praise) 931; proner [Fr.], flaunt, emblazon, prink†, set off, mount, have framed and glazed. put a good face upon, put a smiling face upon; clean the outside of the platter &c (disguise) 544. Adj. ostentatious, showy, dashing, pretentious; janty†, jaunty; grand, pompous, palatial; high-sounding; turgid &c (big-sounding) 577; gairish†, garish; gaudy, gaudy as a peacock, gaudy as a butterfly, gaudy as a tulip; flaunting, flashing, flaming, glittering; gay &c (ornate) 847. splendid, magnificent, sumptuous. theatrical, dramatic, spectacular; ceremonial, ritual. solemn, stately, majestic, formal, stiff, ceremonious, punctilious, starched. dressed to kill, dressed to the nines, decjed out, all decked out, en granite tenue [Fr.], in best bib and tucker, in Sunday best, endimanché, chic. Adv. with flourish of trumpet, with beat of drum, with flying colors. ad captandum vulgus [Lat.]. Phr. honores mutant mores [Lat.].

883. Celebration — N. celebration, solemnization, jubilee, commemoration, ovation, paean, triumph, jubilation, ceremony (rite) 998; holiday, fiesta, zarabanda†, revelry, feast (amusement) 840; china anniversary, diamond anniversary, golden anniversary, silver anniversary, tin anniversary, china jubilee, diamond jubilee, golden jubilee, silver jubilee, tin jubilee, china wedding, diamond wedding, golden wedding, silver wedding, tin wedding. triumphal arch, bonfire, salute; salvo, salvo of artillery; feu de joie [Fr.], flourish of trumpets, fanfare, colors flying, illuminations. inauguration, installation, presentation; coronation; Lord Mayor's show; harvest-home, red-letter day; trophy &c 733; Te Deum &c (thanksgiving) 990 [Lat.]; fete &c 882; holiday &c 840; Forefathers' Day [U.S.]. V. celebrate keep, signalize, do honor to, commemorate, solemnize, hallow, mark with a red letter. pledge, drink to, toast, hob and nob†. inaugurate, install, chair. rejoice &c 838; kill the fatted calf, hold jubilee, roast an ox. Adj. celebrating &c v.; commemorative, celebrated, immortal. Adv. in honor of, in commemoration of. Int. hail!, all hail!, io paean, io triumphe!†, see the conquering hero comes!.

884. Boasting — N. boasting &c v.; boast, vaunt, crake†; pretense, pretensions; puff, puffery; flourish, fanfaronade†; gasconade; blague†, bluff, gas [Slang]; highfalutin, highfaluting†; hot air, spread-eagleism [U.S.]; brag, braggardism†; bravado, bunkum, buncombe; jactitation†, jactancy†; bounce; venditation†, vaporing, rodomontade, bombast, fine talking, tall talk, magniloquence, teratology†, heroics; Chauvinism; exaggeration &c 549. vanity &c 880; vox et praeterea nihil [Lat.]; much cry and little wool, brutum fulmen [Lat.]. exultation; gloriation†, glorification; flourish of trumpets; triumph &c 883. boaster; braggart, braggadocio; Gascon [Fr.], fanfaron†, pretender, soi-disant [Fr.]; blower [U.S.], bluffer, Foxy Quiller†; blusterer &c 887; charlatan, jack-pudding, trumpeter; puppy &c (fop) 854. V. boast, make a boast of, brag, vaunt, Puff, show off, flourish, crake†, crack, trumpet, strut, swagger, vapor; blague†, blow, four-flush [Slang], bluff. exult, crow, crow over, neigh, chuckle, triumph; throw up one's cap; talk big, se faire valoir [Fr.], faire claquer son fouet [Fr.], take merit to oneself, make a merit of, sing Io triumphe†, holloa before one is out of the wood†. Adj. boasting &c v.; magniloquent, flaming, Thrasonic, stilted, gasconading, braggart, boastful, pretentious, soi-disant [Fr.]; vainglorious &c (conceited) 880; highfalutin, highfaluting†; spread- eagle [U.S.]. elate, elated; jubilant, triumphant, exultant; in high feather; flushed, flushed with victory; cock-a-hoop; on stilts. vaunted &c v.. Adv. vauntingly &c adj.. Phr. let the galled jade wince [Hamlet]; facta non verba [Lat.].

885. [Undue assumption of superiority.] Insolence — N. insolence; haughtiness &c adj.; arrogance, airs; overbearance†; domineering &c v.; tyranny &c 739. impertinence; sauciness &c adj.; flippancy, dicacity†, petulance, procacity†, bluster; swagger, swaggering &c v.; bounce; terrorism. assumption, presumption; beggar on horseback; usurpation. impudence, assurance, audacity, hardihood, front, face, brass; shamelessness &c adj.; effrontery, hardened front, face of brass. assumption of infallibility. saucebox &c (blusterer) 887 [Obs.]. V. be insolent &c adj.; bluster, vapor, swagger, swell, give oneself airs, snap one's fingers, kick up a dust; swear &c (affirm) 535; rap out oaths; roister. arrogate; assume, presume; make bold, make free; take a liberty, give an inch and take an ell. domineer, bully, dictate, hector; lord it over; traiter de haut en bas [Fr.], regarder de haut en bas [Fr.]; exact; snub, huff., beard, fly in the face of; put to the blush; bear down, beat down; browbeat, intimidate; trample down, tread down, trample under foot; dragoon, ride roughshod over. out face, outlook, outstare, outbrazen†, outbrave†; stare out of countenance; brazen out; lay down the law; teach one's grandmother to suck eggs; assume a lofty bearing; talk big, look big; put on big looks, act the grand seigneur [Fr.]; mount the high horse, ride the high horse; toss the head, carry, with a high hand. tempt Providence, want snuffing. Adj. insolent, haughty, arrogant, imperious, magisterial, dictatorial, arbitrary; high-handed, high and mighty; contumelious, supercilious, overbearing, intolerant, domineering, overweening, high-flown. flippant, pert, fresh [U.S.], cavalier, saucy, forward, impertinent, malapert. precocious, assuming, would-be, bumptious. bluff; brazen, shameless, aweless, unblushlng†, unabashed; brazen, boldfaced-, barefaced-, brazen-faced; dead to shame, lost to shame. impudent, audacious, presumptuous, free and easy, devil-may-care, rollicking; jaunty, janty†; roistering, blustering, hectoring, swaggering, vaporing; thrasonic, fire eating, full of sound and fury [Macbeth]. Adv. with a high hand; ex cathedra [Lat.]. Phr. one's bark being worse than his bite; beggars mounted run their horse to death [Henry VI]; quid times? Caesarem vehis [Lat.] [Plutarch]; wagahai wa [Jap.] (expressing superiority) [Jap.Tr.].

886. Servility — N. servility; slavery &c (subjection) 749; obsequiousness &c adj.; subserviency; abasement; prostration, prosternation†; genuflection &c (worship) 990; fawning &c v.; tuft- hunting, timeserving†, flunkeyism†; sycophancy &c (flattery) 933; humility &c 879. sycophant, parasite; toad, toady, toad-eater; tufthunter†; snob, flunky, flunkey, yes-man, lapdog, spaniel, lickspittle, smell-feast, Graeculus esuriens [Lat.], hanger on, cavaliere servente [It], led captain, carpet knight; timeserver, fortune hunter, Vicar of Bray, Sir- Pertinax, Max Sycophant, pickthank†; flatterer &c 935; doer of dirty work; ame damnee [Fr.], tool; reptile; slave &c (servant) 746; courtier; beat [Slang], dead beat [Slang], doughface [U.S.], heeler [U.S.], homme de cour [Fr.], sponger, sucker [Slang], tagtail†, truckler. V. cringe, bow, stoop, kneel, bend the knee; fall on one's knees, prostrate oneself; worship &c 990. sneak, crawl, crouch, cower, sponge, truckle to, grovel, fawn, lick the feet of, kiss the hem of one's garment, kiss one's ass [Vulg.], suck up. pay court to; feed on, fatten on, dance attendance on, pin oneself upon, hang on the sleeve of, avaler les couleuvres [Fr.], keep time to, fetch and carry, do the dirty work of. go with the stream, worship the rising sun, hold with the hare and run with the hounds. Adj. servile, obsequious; supple, supple as a glove; soapy, oily, pliant, cringing, abased, dough-faced, fawning, slavish, groveling, sniveling, mealy-mouthed; beggarly, sycophantic, parasitical; abject, prostrate, down on ones marrowbones; base, mean, sneaking; crouching &c v.. Adv. hat in hand, cap in hand.

887. Blusterer — N. blusterer, swaggerer, vaporer, roisterer†, brawler; fanfaron†; braggart &c (boaster) 884; bully, terrorist, rough; bulldozer [U.S.], hoodlum, hooligan [Slang], larrikin†, roarer [Slang]; Mohock, Mohawk; drawcansir†, swashbuckler, Captain Bobadil, Sir Lucius O'Trigger, Thraso, Pistol, Parolles, Bombastes Furioso†, Hector, Chrononhotonthologos†; jingo; desperado, dare-devil, fire eater; fury, &c (violent person) 173; rowdy; slang-whanger [Slang], tough [U.S.]. puppy &c (fop) 854; prig; Sir Oracle, dogmatist, doctrinaire, jack-in-office; saucebox†, malapert, jackanapes, minx; bantam-cock.

SECTION III. SYMPATHETIC AFFECTIONS

1. SOCIAL AFFECTIONS

888. Friendship — N. friendship, amity; friendliness &c adj.; brotherhood, fraternity, sodality, confraternity; harmony &c (concord) 714; peace &c 721. firm friendship, staunch friendship, intimate friendship, familiar friendship, bosom friendship, cordial friendship, tried friendship, devoted friendship, lasting friendship, fast friendship, sincere friendship, warm friendship, ardent friendship. cordiality, fraternization, entente cordiale [Fr.], good understanding, rapprochement, sympathy, fellow-feeling, response, welcomeness. affection &c (love) 897; favoritism; good will &c (benevolence) 906. acquaintance, familiarity, intimacy, intercourse, fellowship, knowledge of; introduction. V. be friendly &c adj., be friends &c 890, be acquainted with &c adj.; know; have the ear of; keep company with &c (sociality) 892; hold communication with, have dealings with, sympathize with; have a leaning to; bear good will &c (benevolent) 906; love &c 897; make much of; befriend &c (aid) 707; introduce to. set one's horses together; have the latchstring out [U.S.]; hold out the right hand of friendship, extend the right hand of friendship, hold out the right hand of fellowship; become friendly &c adj.; make friends with &c 890; break the lee, be introduced to; make acquaintance with, pick acquaintance with, scrape acquaintance with; get into favor, gain the friendship of. shake hands with, fraternize, embrace; receive with open arms, throw oneself into the arms of; meet halfway, take in good part. Adj. friendly; amicable, amical†; well-affected, unhostile†, neighborly, brotherly, fraternal, sympathetic, harmonious, hearty, cordial, warm- hearted. friends with, well with, at home with, hand in hand with; on good terms, on friendly terms, on amicable terms, on cordial terms, on familiar terms, on intimate terms, on good footing; on speaking terms, on visiting terms; in one's good graces, in one's good books. acquainted, familiar, intimate, thick, hand and glove, hail fellow well met, free and easy; welcome. Adv. amicably &c adj.; with open arms; sans ceremonie [Fr.]; arm in arm. Phr. amicitia semper prodest [Lat.] [Seneca]; a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one [Carlyle]; friendship is love without either flowers or veil [Hare]; trulgus amicitias utilitate probat [Lat.] [Ovid].