blackguardism

noun

Roget 895: discourtesy; ill breeding; ill manners, bad manners, ungainly manners; insuavity^†; uncourteousness^†, etc. adj.; rusticity, inurbanity^†; illiberality, incivility displacency^†.    disrespect etc. 929; procacity^†, impudence: barbarism, barbarity; misbehavior, brutality, blackguardism^†, conduct unbecoming a gentleman, grossieret_e, brusquerie^†; vulgarity, etc. 851.    churlishness etc. adj.; spinosity^†, perversity; moroseness etc. (sullenness) 901.1. sternness etc. adj.; austerity; moodishness^†, captiousness etc. 901; cynicism; tartness etc. adj.; acrimony, acerbity, virulence, asperity.    scowl, black looks, frown; short answer, rebuff; hard words, contumely; unparliamentary language, personality.    bear, bruin, brute, blackguard, beast; unlicked cub^†; frump, crosspatch^†; saucebox etc. 887^†; crooked stick; grizzly.    ... show more

Roget 851: vulgarity, vulgarism; barbarism, Vandalism, Gothicism^†; mauvis gout [Fr.], bad taste; gaucherie, awkwardness, want of tact; ill-breeding etc. (discourtesy) 895.    courseness etc. adj.^†; indecorum, misbehavior.    lowness, homeliness; low life, mauvais ton [Fr.], rusticity; boorishness etc. adj.; brutality; rowdyism, blackguardism^†; ribaldry; slang etc. (neology) 563.    bad joke, mauvais plaisanterie [Fr.].    [Excess of ornament] gaudiness, tawdriness; false ornament; finery, frippery, trickery, tinsel, gewgaw, clinquant^†; baroque, rococo.    rough diamond, tomboy, hoyden, cub, unlicked cub^†; clown etc. (commonalty) 876; Goth, Vandal, Boeotian; snob, cad, gent; parvenu etc. 876; frump, dowdy; slattern etc. 653.    ... show more

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