Upbraid vs Calumniate - What's the difference?
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To criticize severely.
* Matthew 11:20 ,
* (rfdate),
(archaic) To charge with something wrong or disgraceful; to reproach; to cast something in the teeth of; – followed by with'' or ''for'', and formerly ''of , before the thing imputed.
* Mark 16:14 ,
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To treat with contempt.
(obsolete) To object or urge as a matter of reproach; to cast up; – with to before the person.
(archaic) To utter upbraidings.
To rise on the stomach; vomit; retch.
To make hurtful untrue comments about.
* Strype
* 1905 , Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes ,
To levy a false charge against, especially of a vague offense, with the intent to damage someone's reputation or standing.
In transitive terms the difference between upbraid and calumniate
is that upbraid is to criticize severely while calumniate is to levy a false charge against, especially of a vague offense, with the intent to damage someone's reputation or standing.As a noun upbraid
is the act of reproaching; contumely.upbraid
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Verb
(en verb)- Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done.
- How much doth thy kindness upbraid my wickedness!
- And upbraided them with their unbelief.
- Yet do not upbraid us our distress.
- (Spenser)
- (Francis Bacon)
Synonyms
* exprobrate, blame, censure, condemn, reproachcalumniate
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Verb
(calumniat)- Hatred unto the truth did always falsely report and calumniate all godly men's doings.
- There are adherents of each of the four French parties—Legitimists, Orleanists, Imperialists, and Republicans—in this little mountain-town; and they all hate, loathe, decry, and calumniate each other.