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31habileté — [ abilte ] n. f. • 1539; de habile I ♦ Vx ou dr. ⇒ aptitude, capacité, habilité; habilitation. « Leur habileté à disputer les droits des couronnes » (Fléchier). II ♦ Mod. 1 ♦ Qualité d une personne habile. ⇒ 2. adresse, dextérité, technique. L… …
32hautain — 1. hautain, aine [ otɛ̃, ɛn ] adj. • XIIe; de haut 1 ♦ Vx ou poét. Qui s élève. ♢ Vx ou littér. Élevé, noble. « le renoncement volontaire, la vie hautaine et pure » (Montherlant). 2 ♦ Mod. et cour. Qui, dans ses manières et son aspect, marque une …
33jaune — [ ʒon ] adj., n. et adv. • XIIe; jalne 1080; lat. imp. galbinus I ♦ Adj. 1 ♦ Qui est d une couleur placée dans le spectre entre le vert et l orangé et dont la nature offre de nombreux exemples (citron, bouton d or). ⇒ ambré, blond, doré; xantho …
34deprecatory — Synonyms and related words: abusive, back biting, belittling, bitchy, blackening, blameful, calumniatory, calumnious, catty, censorious, condemnatory, contemptuous, contumelious, damnatory, defamatory, denunciatory, deprecative, depreciative,… …
35depreciativ — DEPRECIATÍV, Ă, depreciativi, e, adj. Care dovedeşte lipsă de consideraţie sau dispreţ, care conţine o notă de batjocură. [pr.: ci a ] – Din fr. dépréciatif. Trimis de LauraGellner, 10.07.2004. Sursa: DEX 98 DEPRECIATÍV adj. v. peiorativ.… …
36derogatory — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. depreciative, disparaging, defamatory, humiliating. See disrepute, detraction. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. belittling, disparaging, slighting, dishonoring, deprecatory, depreciatory, denigrating,… …
37confident — confident, assured, sanguine, sure, presumptuous arecomparable as applied to a person or to his temperament, looks, manner, acts, or utterances with the meaning not inhibited by doubts, fears, or a sense of inferiority. Confident may imply a… …
38belittling — I noun 1. a belittling comment • Syn: ↑denigration • Derivationally related forms: ↑denigrate (for: ↑denigration) • Hypernyms: ↑ …
39deprecating — adjective tending to diminish or disparage (Freq. 1) belittling comments managed a deprecating smile at the compliment deprecatory remarks about the book a slighting remark • Syn: ↑belittling, ↑deprecative, ↑ …
40deprecative — adjective 1. tending to diminish or disparage belittling comments managed a deprecating smile at the compliment deprecatory remarks about the book a slighting remark • Syn: ↑belittling, ↑deprecating, ↑deprecatory, ↑ …
