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What are the differences between Vitriol, Vituperation, and Invective?
I am having a really hard time seeing the nuanced differences between these three synonyms, especially vituperation and vitriol. I saw from my research that invective is used in more formal context ...
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defamation, slander, libel, ...?
German law has three distinct terms in the context of insulting a person:
§ 185, Beleidigung -- Insulting a person. This covers e.g. flipping somebody off in traffic, calling somebody names etc.
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Difference between "vulgar", "offensive" and "derogatory"
Why do we use the words "vulgar", "offensive" and "derogatory"? What are the differences between them?
For example, on Wiktionary, if we look up "nigger".
now offensive, ethnic slur, vulgar, see ...
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Difference between "dumb" and "stupid"
A friend and I had a disagreement about something, in which he called one of my statements "dumb". As we were talking through the disagreement, it got a little heated and I tried repeating ...
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What are the distinctions between the insulting names "jerk", "a--hole", "bit-h", "c-nt", and "dipsh-t"? [closed]
The insulting names jerk, a--hole, bit-h, cu-t, and dipsh-t are defined by most dictionaries as to generally used to describe someone who is foolish, contemptible, obnoxious, and disagreeable, but ...
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