coat; make a fuss about.
     take down, take down a peg, set down; snub, snap one up, give a rap on
the knuckles; throw a stone at, throw a stone in one’s garden; have a fling, have a snap at; have words with, pluck a crow with; give one a wipe, give one a lick with the rough side of the tongue.
     incur blame, excite disapprobation, scandalize, shock, revolt; get a
bad name, forfeit one’s good opinion, be under a cloud, come under the ferule, bring a hornet’s nest about one’s ears.
     take blame, stand corrected; have to answer for. 
     Adj. disapproving &c.v.; scandalized.
     disparaging, condemnatory, damnatory[obs3], denunciatory, reproachful,
abusive, objurgatory[obs3], clamorous, vituperative; defamatory &c. 934.
     satirical, sarcastic, sardonic, cynical, dry, sharp, cutting, biting,
severe, withering, trenchant, hard upon; censorious, critical, captious, carping, hypercritical; fastidious &c. 868; sparing of praise, grudging praise.
     disapproved, chid &c.v.; in bad odor, blown upon, unapproved;
unblest[obs3]; at a discount, exploded; weighed in the balance and found wanting.
     blameworthy, reprehensible &c. (guilt) 947; to blame, worthy of blame;
answerable, uncommendable, exceptionable, not to be thought of; bad &c. 649; vicious &c. 945.
     unlamented, unbewailed[obs3], unpitied[obs3]. 
     Adv. with a wry face; reproachfully &c. adj. 
     Int. it is too bad! it won’t do, it will never do! marry come up!  Oh!
come! ’sdeath!
     forbid it Heaven!  God forbid, Heaven forbid! out upon, fie upon it!
away with! tut!  O tempora[obs3]!  O mores! shame! fie, fie for shame! out on you!
     tell it not in Gath!

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     #933.  Flattery. —­ N. flattery, adulation, gloze; blandishment,
blandiloquence[obs3]; cajolery; fawning, wheedling &c.v.; captation[obs3], coquetry, obsequiousness, sycophancy, flunkeyism[obs3], toadeating[obs3], tuft-hunting; snobbishness.
     incense, honeyed words, flummery; bunkum, buncombe; blarney, placebo,
butter; soft soap, soft sawder[obs3]; rose water.
     voice of the charmer, mouth honor; lip homage; euphemism; unctuousness
&c. adj. 
     V. flatter, praise to the skies, puff; wheedle, cajole, glaver[obs3],
coax; fawn upon, faun upon; humor, gloze, soothe, pet, coquet, slaver, butter; jolly [U.S.]; bespatter, beslubber[obs3], beplaster[obs3], beslaver[obs3]; lay it on thick, overpraise; earwig, cog, collogue[obs3]; truckle to, pander to, pandar to[obs3], suck up to, kiss the ass of [vulgar], pay court to; court; creep into the good graces of, curry favor with, hang on the sleeve of; fool to the top of one’s bent; lick the dust.
     lay the flattering unction to one’s soul, gild the pill, make things
pleasant.
     overestimate &c. 482; exaggerate &c. 549. 
     Adj. flattering &c.v.; adulatory; mealy-mouthed, honey-mouthed;
honeyed; smooth, smooth-tongued; soapy, oily, unctuous, blandiloquent[obs3], specious; fine-spoken, fair spoken; plausible, servile, sycophantic, fulsome; courtierly[obs3], courtier-like. 
     Adv. ad captandum[Lat].