English words and phrases

dishonor, disgrace; shame, humiliation; scandal, baseness, vileness^†; turpitude &c (improbity) 940 [Obs.]; infamy.

tarnish, taint, defilement, pollution.

stain, blot, spot, blur, stigma, brand, reproach, imputation, slur.

crying shame, burning shame; scandalum magnatum [Lat.], badge of infamy, blot in one's escutcheon; bend sinister, bar sinister; champain^†, point champain^†; byword of reproach; Ichabod.

argumentum ad verecundiam [Lat.]; sense of shame &c 879.

play second fiddle; lose caste; pale one's ineffectual fire; recede into the shade; fall from one's high estate; keep in the background &c (modesty) 881; be conscious of disgrace &c (humility) 879; look blue, look foolish, look like a fool; cut a poor figure, cut a sorry figure; laugh on the wrong side of the mouth; make a sorry face, go away with a flea in.

one's ear, slink away.

cause shame &c n.; shame, disgrace, put to shame, dishonor; throw dishonor upon, cast dishonor upon, fling dishonor upon, reflect dishonor upon &c n.; be a reproach &c n.. to; derogate from.

tarnish, stain, blot sully, taint; discredit; degrade, debase, defile; beggar; expel &c (punish) 972.

impute shame to, brand, post, stigmatize, vilify, defame, slur, cast a slur upon, hold up to shame, send to Coventry; tread under foot, trample under foot; show up, drag through the mire, heap dirt upon; reprehend &c 932.

bring low, put down, snub; take down a peg, take down a peg lower, take down a peg or two.

obscure.

upset, throw off one's center; discompose, disconcert; put to the blush &c (humble) 879.

inglorious; nameless, renownless^†; obscure; unknown to fame; unnoticed, unnoted^†, unhonored, unglorified^†.

shameful; disgraceful, discreditable, disreputable; despicable; questionable; unbecoming, unworthy; derogatory; degrading, humiliating, infra dignitatem [Lat.], dedecorous^†; scandalous, infamous, too bad, unmentionable; ribald, opprobrious; errant, shocking, outrageous, notorious.

ignominious, scrubby, dirty, abject, vile, beggarly, pitiful, low, mean, shabby base &c (dishonorable) 940.

high life, haute monde [Fr.]; upper classes, upper ten thousand; the four hundred [U.S.]; elite, aristocracy, great folks; fashionable world &c (fashion) 852.

peer, peerage; house of lords, house of peers; lords, lords temporal and spiritual; noblesse; noble, nobleman; lord, lordling^†; grandee, magnifico [Lat.], hidalgo; daimio [Jap.], daimyo [Jap.], samurai [Jap.], shizoku [Jap.]; don, donship^†; aristocrat, swell, three-tailed bashaw^†; gentleman, squire, squireen^†, patrician, laureate.

gentry, gentlefolk; squirarchy [Slang], better sort magnates, primates, optimates^†; pantisocracy^†.

king &c (master) 745; atheling^†; prince, duke; marquis, marquisate^†; earl, viscount, baron, thane, banneret^†; baronet, baronetcy^†; knight, knighthood; count, armiger^†, laird; signior^†, seignior; esquire, boyar, margrave, vavasour^†; emir, ameer^†, scherif^†, sharif, effendi, wali; sahib; chevalier, maharaja, nawab, palsgrave^†, pasha, rajah, waldgrave^†.

princess, begum^†, duchess, marchioness; countess &c; lady, dame; memsahib; Do$a, maharani, rani.

personage of distinction, man of distinction, personage of rank, man of rank, personage of mark, man of mark; notables, notabilities; celebrity, bigwig, magnate, great man, star, superstar; big bug; big gun, great gun; gilded rooster [U.S.]; magni nominis umbra [Lat.] [Lucan]; every inch a king [Lear].

V. be noble &c adj..

Adj. noble, exalted; of rank &c n.; princely, titled, patrician, aristocratic; high-, well-born; of gentle blood; genteel, comme il faut [Fr.], gentlemanlike^†, courtly &c (fashionable) 852; highly respectable.

Adv. in high quarters.

Phr. Adel sitzt im Gemuthe nicht im Gebluete [G.]; adelig und edel sind zweierlei [G.]; noblesse oblige [Fr.].
876. Commonalty -- N. commonalty, democracy; obscurity; low condition, low life, low society, low company; bourgeoisie; mass of the people, mass of society; Brown Jones and Robinson; lower classes, humbler classes, humbler orders; vulgar herd, common herd; rank and file, hoc genus omne [Lat.]; the many, the general, the crowd, the people, the populace, the multitude, the million, the masses, the mobility, the peasantry; king Mob; proletariat; fruges consumere nati [Lat.], demos, hoi polloi [Gr.], great unwashed; man in the street.

mob; rabble, rabble rout; chaff, rout, horde, canaille; scum of the people, residuum of the people, dregs of the people, dregs of society; swinish multitude, foex populi^†; trash; profanum vulgus [Lat.], ignobile vulgus [Lat.]; vermin, riffraff, ragtag and bobtail; small fry.

commoner, one of the people, democrat, plebeian, republican, proletary^†, proletaire^†, roturier^†, Mr.

Snooks, bourgeois, epicier [Fr.], Philistine, cockney; grisette^†, demimonde.

peasant, countryman, boor, carle^†, churl; villain, villein; terrae filius [Lat.], son of the land; serf, kern^†, tyke, tike, chuff^†, ryot^†, fellah; longshoreman; swain, clown, hind; clod, clodhopper; hobnail, yokel, bog-trotter, bumpkin; plowman, plowboy^†; rustic, hayseed [Slang], lunkhead [U.S.], chaw-bacon [Slang], tiller of the soil; hewers of wood and drawers of water, groundling^†; gaffer, loon, put, cub, Tony Lumpkin^†, looby^†, rube [U.S.], lout, underling; gamin; rough; pot-wallopper^†, slubberdegullion^†; vulgar fellow, low fellow; cad, curmudgeon.

upstart, parvenu, skipjack^†; nobody, nobody one knows; hesterni quirites [Lat.], pessoribus orti [Lat.]; bourgeois gentilhomme [Fr.], novus homo [Lat.], snob, gent, mushroom, no one knows who, adventurer; man of straw.

beggar, gaberlunzie^†, muckworm^†, mudlark^†, sans culotte, raff^†, tatterdemalion, caitiff, ragamuffin, Pariah, outcast of society, tramp, vagabond, bezonian^†, panhandler [Slang], sundowner^†, chiffonnier, Cinderella, cinderwench^†, scrub, jade; gossoon^†.

Goth, Vandal, Hottentot, Zulu, savage, barbarian, Yahoo; unlicked cub^†, rough diamond^†.

barbarousness, barbarism; boeotia.

V. be ignoble &c adj., be nobody &c n..

Adj. ignoble, common, mean, low, base, vile, sorry, scrubby, beggarly; below par; no great shakes &c (unimportant) 643; homely, homespun; vulgar, low-minded; snobbish.

plebeian, proletarian; of low parentage, of low origin, of low extraction, of mean parentage, of mean origin, of mean extraction; lowborn, baseborn, earthborn^†; mushroom, dunghill, risen from the ranks; unknown to fame, obscure, untitled.

rustic, uncivilized; loutish, boorish, clownish, churlish, brutish, raffish; rude, unlicked^†.

barbarous, barbarian, barbaric, barbaresque^†; cockney, born within sound of Bow bells.

underling, menial, subaltern.

Adv. below the salt.

Phr. dummodo sit dives barbarus ipse placet [Lat.] [Ovid].
877. Title -- N. title, honor; knighthood &c (nobility) 875.

highness, excellency, grace; lordship, worship; reverence, reverend; esquire, sir, master, Mr., signor, senor, Mein Herr [G.], mynheer^†; your honor, his honor; serene highness; handle to one's name.

decoration, laurel, palm, wreath, garland, bays, medal, ribbon, riband, blue ribbon, cordon, cross, crown, coronet, star, garter; feather, feather in one's cap; epaulet, epaulette, colors, cockade; livery; order, arms, shield, scutcheon; reward &c 973.
878. Pride -- N. dignity, self-respect, mens sibi conscia recti [Lat.] [Vergil].

pride; haughtiness &c adj.; high notions, hauteur; vainglory, crest; arrogance &c (assumption) 885.

proud man, highflier^†; fine gentleman, fine lady.

V. be proud &c adj.; put a good face on; look one in the face; stalk abroad, perk oneself up; think no small beer of oneself; presume, swagger, strut; rear one's head, lift up one's head, hold up one's head; hold one's head high, look big, take the wall, bear like the Turk no rival near the throne [Pope], carry with a high hand; ride the high horse, mount on one's high horse; set one's back up, bridle, toss the head; give oneself airs &c (assume) 885; boast &c 884.

pride oneself on; glory in, take a pride in; pique oneself, plume oneself, hug oneself; stand upon, be proud of; put a good face on; not hide one's light under a bushel, not put one's talent in a napkin; not think small beer of oneself &c (vanity) 880.

haughty lofty, high, mighty, swollen, puffed up, flushed, blown; vainglorious; purse-proud, fine; proud as a peacock, proud as Lucifer; bloated with pride.

supercilious, disdainful, bumptious, magisterial, imperious, high and mighty, overweening, consequential; arrogant &c 885; unblushing &c 880.

stiff, stiff-necked; starch; perked stuck-up; in buckram, strait-laced; prim &c (affected) 855.

on one's dignity, on one's high horses, on one's tight ropes, on one's high ropes; on stilts; en grand seigneur [Fr.].

Adv. with head erect.

Phr. odi profanum vulgus et arceo [Lat.] [Horace].

a duke's revenues on her back [Henry VI]; disdains the shadow which he treads on at noon [Coriolanis]; pride in their port, defiance in their eye [Goldsmith].

condescension; affability &c (courtesy) 894.

modesty &c 881; verecundity^†, blush, suffusion, confusion; sense of shame, sense of disgrace; humiliation, mortification; let down, set down.

V. be humble &c adj.; deign, vouchsafe, condescend; humble oneself, demean oneself; stoop, stoop to conquer; carry coals; submit &c 725; submit with a good grace &c (brook) 826; yield the palm.

lower one's tone, lower one's note; sing small, draw in one's horns, sober down; hide one's face, hide one's diminished head; not dare to show one's face, take shame to oneself, not have a word to say for oneself; feel shame, be conscious of shame, feel disgrace, be conscious of disgrace; drink the cup of humiliation to the dregs.

blush for, blush up to the eves; redden, change color; color up; hang one's head, look foolish, feel small.

render humble; humble, humiliate; let down, set down, take down, tread down, frown down; snub, abash, abase, make one sing small, strike dumb; teach one his distance; put down, take down a peg, take down a peg lower; throw into the shade, cast into the shade &c 874; stare out of countenance, put out of countenance; put to the blush; confuse, ashame^†, mortify, disgrace, crush; send away with a flea in one's ear.

get a setdown^†.

Adj. humble, lowly, meek; modest &c 881; humble minded, sober-minded; unoffended^†; submissive &c 725; servile, &c 886.

condescending; affable &c (courteous) 891.

humbled &c v.; bowed down, resigned; abashed, ashamed, dashed; out of countenance; down in the mouth; down on one's knees, down on one's marrowbones, down on one's uppers; humbled in the dust, browbeaten; chapfallen^†, crestfallen; dumfoundered^†.

flabbergasted.

shorn of one's glory &c (disrepute) 874.

Adv. with downcast eyes, with bated breath, with bended knee; on all fours, on one's feet.

under correction, with due deference.

airs, affected manner, pretensions, mannerism; egotism; priggism^†, priggishness; coxcombry, gaudery^†, vainglory, elation; pride &c 878; ostentation &c 882; assurance &c 885.

vox et praeterea nihil [Lat.]; cheval de bataille [Fr.].

coxcomb &c 854; Sir Oracle &c 887.

have too high an opinion of oneself, have an overweening opinion of oneself, have too high an opinion of one's talents; blind oneself as to one's own merit; not think small beer of oneself, not think vin ordinaire of oneself [Fr.]; put oneself forward; fish for compliments; give oneself airs &c (assume) 885; boast &c 884.

render vain &c adj.; inspire with vanity &c n.; inflate, puff up, turn up, turn one's head.

Adj. vain, vain as a peacock, proud as a peacock; conceited, overweening, pert, forward; vainglorious, high-flown; ostentatious &c 882; puffed up, inflated, flushed.

self-satisfied, self-confident, self-sufficient, self-flattering, self-admiring, self-applauding, self-glorious, self-opinionated; entente &c (wrongheaded) 481; wise in one's own conceit, pragmatical^†, overwise^†, pretentious, priggish; egotistic, egotistical; soi-disant &c (boastful) 884 [Fr.]; arrogant &c 885.

unabashed, unblushing; unconstrained, unceremonious; free and easy.

Adv. vainly &c adj..

Phr. how we apples swim! [Swift]; prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk [Cymbeline].
881. Modesty -- N. modesty; humility &c 879; diffidence, timidity; retiring disposition; unobtrusiveness; bashfulness &c adj.; mauvaise honte [Fr.]; blush, blushing; verecundity^†; self-knowledge.

reserve, constraint; demureness &c adj.; blushing honors [Henry VIII].

keep private, keep in the background, keep one's distance; pursue the noiseless tenor of one's way, do good by stealth and blush to find it fame [Pope], hide one's light under a bushel, cast a sheep's eye.

unpretending^†, unpretentious; unobtrusive, unassuming, unostentatious, unboastful^†, unaspiring; poor in spirit.

out of countenance &c (humbled) 879.

reserved, constrained, demure.

magnificence, splendor; coup d'oeil [Fr.]; grand doings.

coup de theatre; stage effect, stage trick; claptrap; mise en scene [Fr.]; tour de force; chic.

demonstration, flying colors; tomfoolery; flourish of trumpets &c (celebration) 883; pageant, pageantry; spectacle, exhibition, exposition, procession; turn out, set out; grand function; f=ete, gala, field day, review, march past, promenade, insubstantial pageant.

dress; court dress, full dress, evening dress, ball dress, fancy dress; tailoring, millinery, man millinery, frippery, foppery, equipage.

ceremony, ceremonial; ritual; form, formality; etiquette; puncto [Lat.], punctilio, punctiliousness; starched stateliness, stateliness.

mummery, solemn mockery, mouth honor.

attitudinarian^†; fop &c 854.

cut a figure, make a dash, make a splash, make a splurge, cut a dash, cut a splash, cut a splurge; figure, figure away; make a show, make a display; glitter.

show off, show off one's paces; parade, march past; display, exhibit, put forward, hold up; trot out, hand out; sport, brandish, blazon forth; dangle, dangle before the eyes.

cry up &c (praise) 931; proner [Fr.], flaunt, emblazon, prink^†, set off, mount, have framed and glazed.

put a good face upon, put a smiling face upon; clean the outside of the platter &c (disguise) 544.

Adj. ostentatious, showy, dashing, pretentious; janty^†, jaunty; grand, pompous, palatial; high-sounding; turgid &c (big-sounding) 577; gairish^†, garish; gaudy, gaudy as a peacock, gaudy as a butterfly, gaudy as a tulip; flaunting, flashing, flaming, glittering; gay &c (ornate) 847.

splendid, magnificent, sumptuous.

theatrical, dramatic, spectacular; ceremonial, ritual.

solemn, stately, majestic, formal, stiff, ceremonious, punctilious, starched.

dressed to kill, dressed to the nines, decjed out, all decked out, en granite tenue [Fr.], in best bib and tucker, in Sunday best, endimanch_e, chic.

Adv. with flourish of trumpet, with beat of drum, with flying colors.

ad captandum vulgus [Lat.].

triumphal arch, bonfire, salute; salvo, salvo of artillery; feu de joie [Fr.], flourish of trumpets, fanfare, colors flying, illuminations.

inauguration, installation, presentation; coronation; Lord Mayor's show; harvest-home, red-letter day; trophy &c 733; Te Deum &c (thanksgiving) 990 [Lat.]; fete &c 882; holiday &c 840; Forefathers' Day [U.S.].

V. celebrate keep, signalize, do honor to, commemorate, solemnize, hallow, mark with a red letter.

pledge, drink to, toast, hob and nob^†.

inaugurate, install, chair.

rejoice &c 838; kill the fatted calf, hold jubilee, roast an ox.

vanity &c 880; vox et praeterea nihil [Lat.]; much cry and little wool, brutum fulmen [Lat.].

exultation; gloriation^†, glorification; flourish of trumpets; triumph &c 883.

boaster; braggart, braggadocio; Gascon [Fr.], fanfaron^†, pretender, soi-disant [Fr.]; blower [U.S.], bluffer, Foxy Quiller^†; blusterer &c 887; charlatan, jack-pudding, trumpeter; puppy &c (fop) 854.

exult, crow, crow over, neigh, chuckle, triumph; throw up one's cap; talk big, se faire valoir [Fr.], faire claquer son fouet [Fr.], take merit to oneself, make a merit of, sing Io triumphe^†, holloa before one is out of the wood^†.

elate, elated; jubilant, triumphant, exultant; in high feather; flushed, flushed with victory; cock-a-hoop; on stilts.

vaunted &c v..

Adv. vauntingly &c adj..

Phr. let the galled jade wince [Hamlet]; facta non verba [Lat.].
885. [Undue assumption of superiority.] Insolence -- N. insolence; haughtiness &c adj.; arrogance, airs; overbearance^†; domineering &c v.; tyranny &c 739.

impertinence; sauciness &c adj.; flippancy, dicacity^†, petulance, procacity^†, bluster; swagger, swaggering &c v.; bounce; terrorism.

assumption, presumption; beggar on horseback; usurpation.

impudence, assurance, audacity, hardihood, front, face, brass; shamelessness &c adj.; effrontery, hardened front, face of brass.

assumption of infallibility.

saucebox &c (blusterer) 887 [Obs.].