| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. The act of attacking: aggression, assailment, assault, attack, attempt, offensive, onrush, onset, onslaught, strike. See ATTACK. 2. A serious breaking of the public law: crime, illegality, misdeed. Law : felony. See CRIMES. 3. A wicked act or wicked behavior: crime, deviltry, diablerie, evil, evildoing, immorality, iniquity, misdeed, peccancy, sin, wickedness, wrong, wrongdoing. See RIGHT. 4. Something that offends one's sense of propriety, fairness, or justice: crime, outrage, sin. See RIGHT. 5. An act that offends a person's sense of pride or dignity: affront, contumely, despite, indignity, insult, outrage, slight. Idioms: slap in the face. See ATTACK. 6. Extreme displeasure caused by an insult or slight: dudgeon, huff, miff, pique, resentment, ruffled feathers, umbrage. See LIKE, PAIN.
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