< p. 326 > #935. Flatterer. N. flatterer, adulator; eulogist, euphemist; optimist, encomias t, laudator[Lat], whitewasher.

. toady, toadeater[obs3]; sycophant, courtier, Sir Pertinax MacSycophant; flaneur[Fr], proneur[Fr]; puffer, touter[obs3], claqueur[ Fr]; clawback[obs3], earwig, doer of dirty work; parasite, hanger-on &c. (servil ity) 886. yes-man, suckup, ass-kisser [vulgar], brown-noser [vulgar], teacher's pet. Phr. pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes [Lat][Tacitus]. #936. Detractor. N. detractor, reprover; censor, censurer; cynic, critic, caviler, carper, word-catcher, frondeur; barracker[obs3]. defamer, backbiter, slanderer, Sir Benjamin Backbite, lampooner, satirist, traducer, libeler, calumniator, dawplucker[obs3], Thersites[obs3]; Zoilus; good-natured friend [satirically]; reviler, vituperator, castigator; shrew &c. 901; muckraker. disapprover, laudator temporis acti [Lat][Horace]. Adj. black-mouthed, abusive &c. 934. < vindication and advocacy together?? > #937. Vindication. N. vindication, justification, warrant; exoneration, exculpation; acquittal &c. 970; whitewashing. extenuation; palliation, palliative; softening, mitigation. reply, defense; recrimination &c 938. apology, gloss, varnish; plea &c. 617; salvo; excuse, extenuating circumstances; allowance, allowance to be made; locus paenitentiae[Lat]. apologist, vindicator, justifier; defendant &c. 938. justifiable charge, true bill. v. justify, warrant; be an excuse &c. n.for; lend a color, furnish a handle; vindicate; exculpate, disculpate[obs3]; acquit &c. 970; clear, set right, exonerate, whitewash; clear the skirts of. extenuate, palliate, excuse, soften, apologize, varnish, slur, gloze; put a gloss, put a good face upon; mince; gloss over, bolster up, help a lame dog over a stile. advocate, defend, plead one's cause; stand up for, stick up for, speak up for; contend for, speak for; bear out, keep in countenance, support; plead &c, 617; say in defense; plead ignorance; confess and avoid, propugn[obs3], put in a good word for. take the will for the deed, make allowance for, give credit for, do justice to; give one his due, give the Devil his due. make good; prove the truth of, prove one's case; be justified by the event. Adj. vindicated, vindicating &c v.; exculpatory; apologetic. excusable, defensible, pardonable; venial, veniable[obs3]; specious, plausible, justifiable. Phr. "honi sot qui mal y pense"; "good wine needs no bush." #938. Accusation. N. accusation, charge, imputation, slur, inculpation, exprobra tion[obs3], delation; crimination; incrimination, accrimination[obs3], recrimina tion; tu quoque argument[Lat]; invective &c. 932. denunciation, denouncement; li bel, challenge, citation, arraignment; impeachment, appeachment[obs3]; indictmen t, bill of indictment, true bill; lawsuit &c. 969; condemnation &c. 971. gravame n of a charge, head and front of one's offending, argumentum ad hominem[Lat]; sc andal &c. (detraction) 934; scandalum magnatum[Lat]. accuser, prosecutor, plaint iff; relator, informer; appellant. accused, defendant, prisoner, perpetrator, pa nel, respondent; litigant. V. accuse, charge, tax, impute, twit, taunt with, rep roach. brand with reproach; stigmatize, slur; cast a stone at, cast a slur on; i ncriminate, criminate; inculpate, implicate; call to account &c. (censure) 932;

take to blame, take to task; put in the black book. inform against, indict, deno unce, arraign; impeach, appeach[obs3]; have up, show up, pull up; challenge, cit e, lodge a complaint; prosecute, bring an action against &c. 969; blow upon. cha rge with, saddle with; lay to one's door, lay charge; lay the blame on, bring ho me to; cast in one's teeth, throw in one's teeth; cast the first stone at. have a rod in pickle for, keep a rod in pickle for; have a crow to pluck with. trump up a charge. Adj. accusing &c.v.; accusatory, accusative; imputative, denunciato ry; recriminatory, criminatory[obs3]. accused &c.v.; suspected; under suspicion, under a cloud, under surveillance; in custody, in detention; in the lockup, in the watch house, in the house of detention. accusable, imputable; indefensible, inexcusable; unpardonable, unjustifiable; vicious &c. 845. Int. look at home; tu quoque &c. (retaliation) 718[Lat]. Phr. "the breath of accusation kills an inno cent name" [Shelley]; "thou can'st not say I did it" [Macbeth]. < p. 327 > % 3. MORAL CONDITIONS % #939. Probity. N. probity, integrity, rectitude; uprightness &c. adj.; honesty, faith; honor; bonne foi[Fr], good faith, bona fides[Lat]; purity, clean hands. f airness &c. adj.; fair play, justice, equity, impartiality, principle, even-hand edness; grace. constancy; faithfulness &c. adj.; fidelity, loyalty; incorruption , incorruptibility. trustworthiness &c. adj.; truth, candor, singleness of heart ; veracity &c. 543; tender conscience &c. (sense of duty) 926. punctilio, delica cy, nicety; scrupulosity, scrupulousness &c. adj.; scruple; point, point of hono r; punctuality. dignity &c, (repute) 873; respectability, respectableness &c. ad j; gentilhomme[Fr], gentleman; man of honor, man of his word; fidus Achates[Lat] [obs3], preux chevalier[Fr], galantuomo[It]; truepenny[obs3], trump, brick; true Briton; white man * [U.S.]. court of honor, a fair field and no favor; argument um ad verecundiam[Lat]. V. be honorable &c. adj.; deal honorably, deal squarely, deal impartially, deal fairly; speak the truth &c. (veracity) 543; draw a strai ght furrow; tell the truth and shame the Devil, vitam impendere vero[Lat]; show a proper spirit, make a point of; do one's duty &c. (virtue) 944. redeem one's p ledge &c. 926; keep one's promise, be as good as one's promise, be as good as on e's word; keep faith with, not fail. give and take, audire alteram partem[Lat], give the Devil his due, put the saddle on the right horse. redound to one's hono r. Adj. upright; honest, honest as daylight; veracious &c. 543; virtuous &c. 944 ; honorable; fair, right, just, equitable, impartial, evenhanded, square; fair a nd aboveboard, open and aboveboard; white * [U.S.]. constant, constant as the no rthern star; faithful, loyal, staunch; true, true blue, true to one's colors, tr ue to the core, true as the needle to the pole; "marble-constant" [Antony and Cl eopatra]; true-hearted, trusty, trustworthy; as good as one's word, to be depend ed on, incorruptible. straightforward &c. (ingenuous) 703; frank, candid, open-h earted. conscientious, tender-conscienced, right-minded; high-principled, high-m inded; scrupulous, religious, strict; nice, punctilious, correct, punctual; resp ectable, reputable; gentlemanlike[obs3]. inviolable, inviolate; unviolated[obs3] , unbroken, unbetrayed; unbought, unbribed[obs3]. innocent &c. 946; pure, stainl ess; unstained, untarnished, unsullied, untainted, unperjured[obs3]; uncorrupt, uncorrupted; undefiled, undepraved[obs3], undebauched[obs3]; integer vitae scele risque purus [Lat][Horace]; justus et tenax propositi [Lat][Horace]. chivalrous, jealous of honor, sans peur et sans reproche[Fr]; high- spirited. supramundane[ obs3], unworldly, other-worldly, overscrupulous[obs3]. Adv. honorable &c. adj.; bona fide; on the square, in good faith, honor bright, foro conscientiae[Lat], w ith clean hands. Phr. "a face untaught to feign" [Pope]; bene qui latuit bene vi xit [Lat][Ovid]; mens sibi conscia recti[Lat]; probitas laudatur et alget [Lat][ obs3][Juvenal]; fidelis ad urnam[Lat]; "his heart as far from fraud as heaven fr om earth" [Two Gentlemen]; loyaute m'oblige[Fr]; loyaute n'a honte[Fr]; "what st ronger breastplate than a heart untainted?" [Henry VI]. < p. 328 > #940. Improbity. N. improbity[obs3]; dishonesty, dishonor; deviation from rectit

ude; disgrace &c. (disrepute) 874; fraud &c. (deception) 545; lying &c. 544; bad faith, Punic faith; mala fides[Lat], Punica fides[Lat]; infidelity; faithlessne ss &c. adj.; Judas kiss, betrayal. breach of promise, breach of trust, breach of faith; prodition|, disloyalty, treason, high treason; apostasy &c. (tergiversat ion) 607; nonobservance &c. 773. shabbiness &c. adj.; villainy, villany[obs3]; b aseness &c. adj.; abjection, debasement, turpitude, moral turpitude, laxity, tri mming, shuffling. perfidy; perfidiousness &c. adj.; treachery, double dealing; u nfairness &c. adj.; knavery, roguery, rascality, foul play; jobbing, jobbery; gr aft, bribery; venality, nepotism; corruption, job, shuffle, fishy transaction; b arratry, sharp practice, heads I win tails you lose; mouth honor &c. (flattery) 933. V. be dishonest &c. adj.; play false; break one's word, break one's faith, break one's promise; jilt, betray, forswear; shuffle &c. (lie) 544; live by one' s wits, sail near the wind. disgrace oneself, dishonor oneself, demean oneself; derogate, stoop, grovel, sneak, lose caste; sell oneself, go over to the enemy; seal one's infamy. Adj. dishonest, dishonorable; unconscientious, unscrupulous; fraudulent &c. 545; knavish; disgraceful &c. (disreputable) 974; wicked &c. 945. false-hearted, disingenuous; unfair, one-sided; double, double- hearted, double -tongued, double-faced; timeserving[obs3], crooked, tortuous,insidious, Machiave lian, dark, slippery; fishy; perfidious, treacherous, perjured. infamous, arrant , foul, base, vile, ignominious, blackguard. contemptible, unrespectable, abject , mean, shabby, little, paltry, dirty, scurvy, scabby, sneaking, groveling, scru bby, rascally, pettifogging; beneath one. low-minded, low-thoughted[obs3]; baseminded. undignified, indign|; unbecoming, unbeseeming[obs3], unbefitting; deroga tory, degrading; infra dignitatem [Latin: beneath one's dignity]; ungentlemanly, ungentlemanlike; unknightly[obs3], unchivalric[obs3], unmanly, unhandsome; recr eant, inglorious. corrupt, venal; debased, mongrel. faithless, of bad faith, fal se, unfaithful, disloyal; untrustworthy; trustless, trothless[obs3]; lost to sha me, dead to honor; barratrous. Adv. dishonestly &c. adj.; mala fide[Lat], like a thief in the night, by crooked paths. Int. O tempora[obs3]! O mores! [Cicero]. Phr. corruptissima respublica plurimae leges [Lat][Tacitus]. #941. Knave. N. knave, rogue; Scapin[obs3], rascal; Lazarillo de Tormes; bad man &c. 949; blackguard &c. 949; barrater[obs3], barrator[obs3]; shyster [U.S..]. t raitor, betrayer, archtraitor[obs3], conspirator, Judas, Catiline; reptile, serp ent, snake in the grass, wolf in sheep's clothing, sneak, Jerry Sneak, squealer* , tell-tale, mischief-maker; trimmer, fence-sitter, renegade &c. (tergiversation ) 607; truant, recreant; sycophant &c. (servility) 886. #942. Disinterestedness. N. disinterestedness &c. adj.; generosity; liberality, liberalism; altruism; benevolence &c. 906; elevation, loftiness of purpose, exal tation, magnanimity; chivalry, chivalrous spirit; heroism, sublimity. self-denia l, self-abnegation, self-sacrifice, self-immolation, self- control &c. (resoluti on) 604; stoicism, devotion, martyrdom, suttee. labor of love. V. be disinterest ed &c. adj.; make a sacrifice, lay one's head on the block; put oneself in the p lace of others, do as one would be done by, do unto others as we would men shoul d do unto us. Adj. disinterested; unselfish; self-denying, self-sacrificing, sel f- devoted; generous. handsome, liberal, noble, broad-minded; noble-minded, high -minded; princely, great, high, elevated, lofty, exalted, spirited, stoical, mag nanimous; great-hearted, large-hearted; chivalrous, heroic, sublime. unbought, u nbribed[obs3]; uncorrupted &c. (upright) 939. Phr. non vobis solum[Lat]. #943. Selfishness. N. selfishness &c. adj.; self-love, self- indulgence, self-wo rship, self-interest; egotism, egoism; amour propre[Fr],&c. (vanity) 880; nepoti sm. worldliness &c. adj.; world wisdom. illiberality; meanness &c. adj. time-ple aser, time-server; tuft-hunter, fortune-hunter; jobber, worldling; egotist, egoi st, monopolist, nepotist; dog in the manger, charity that begins at home; canis in praesepi[Lat], "foes to nobleness," temporizer, trimmer. V. be selfish &c. ad j.; please oneself, indulge oneself, coddle oneself; consult one's own wishes, c onsult one's own pleasure; look after one's own interest; feather one's nest; ta ke care of number one, have an eye to the main chance, know on which side one's

bread is buttered; give an inch and take an ell. Adj. selfish; self-seeking, sel f-indulgent, self-interested, self- centered; wrapped up in self, wrapt up in se lf[obs3], centered in self; egotistic, egotistical; egoistical[obs3]. illiberal, mean, ungenerous, narrow-minded; mercenary, venal; covetous &c. 819. unspiritua l, earthly, earthly-minded; mundane; worldly, worldly- minded; worldly-wise; tim eserving[obs3]. interested; alieni appetens sui profusus[Lat]. Adv. ungenerously &c. adj.; to gain some private ends, from interested motives. Phr. apres nous l e deluge[Fr]. < p. 329 > #944. Virtue. N. virtue; virtuousness &c. adj.; morality; moral rectitude; integ rity &c. (probity) 939; nobleness &c. 873. morals; ethics &c. (duty) 926; cardin al virtues. merit, worth, desert, excellence, credit; self-control &c. (resoluti on) 604; self-denial &c. (temperance) 953. well-doing; good actions, good behavi or; discharge of duty, fulfillment of duty, performance of duty; well-spent life ; innocence &c. 946. V. be virtuous &c. adj.; practice virtue &c.n.; do one's du ty, fulfill one's duty, perform one's duty, discharge one's duty; redeem one's p ledge, keep one's promise &c. 926; act well, act one's part; fight the good figh t; acquit oneself well; command one's passions, master one's passions; keep in t he right path. set an example, set a good example; be on one's good behavior, be on one's best behavior. Adj. virtuous, good; innocent &c. 946; meritorious, des erving, worthy, desertful[obs3], correct; dutiful, duteous; moral; right, righte ous, right- minded; well-intentioned, creditable, laudable, commendable, praisew orthy; above all praise, beyond all praise; excellent, admirable; sterling, pure , noble; whole-souled[obs3]. exemplary; matchless, peerless; saintly, saint-like ; heaven-born, angelic, seraphic, godlike. Adv. virtuously &c, adj.; e merito[La t]. Phr. esse quam videri bonus malebat [Lat][Sallust]; Schonheit vergeht Tugend besteht[Ger]; "virtue the greatest of all monarchies" [Swift]; virtus laudatur et alget [Lat][obs3][Juvenal]; virtus vincit invidiam[Lat]. #945. Vice. N. vice; evil-doing, evil courses; wrongdoing; wickedness, viciousne ss &c. adj.; iniquity, peccability[obs3], demerit; sin, Adam|!; old Adam[obs3], offending Adam[obs3]. immorality, impropriety, indecorum, scandal, laxity, loose ness of morals; enphagy[obs3], dophagy[obs3], exophagy[obs3]; want of principle, want of ballast; obliquity, backsliding, infamy, demoralization, pravity[obs3], depravity, pollution; hardness of heart; brutality &c. (malevolence) 907; corru ption &c. (debasement) 659; knavery &c. (improbity) 940[obs3]; profligacy; flagr ancy, atrocity; cannibalism; lesbianism, Sadism. infirmity; weakness &c. adj.; w eakness of the flesh, frailty, imperfection; error; weak side; foible; failing, failure; crying sin, besetting sin; defect, deficiency; cloven foot. lowest dreg s of vice, sink of iniquity, Alsatian den[obs3]; gusto picaresco[It]. fault, cri me; criminality &c. (guilt) 947. sinner &c. 949.