Laster

noun
1 youngsters driven to vice: immorality, wrongdoing, wickedness, badness, evil, iniquity, villainy, corruption, misconduct, misdeeds; sin, sinfulness, ungodliness; depravity, degeneracy, dissolution, dissipation, debauchery, decadence, lechery, perversion; crime, transgression; formal: turpitude; archaic: trespass. antonym: virtue.
2 smoking is my only vice: shortcoming, failing, flaw, fault, bad habit, defect, weakness, deficiency, limitation, imperfection, blemish, foible, frailty. antonym: virtue.

beleidigend, verleumderisch

libel

noun
she sued two newspapers for libel: defamation, defamation of character, character assassination, calumny, misrepresentation, scandalmongering; aspersions, denigration, vilification, disparagement, derogation, insult, slander, malicious gossip; lie, slur, smear, untruth, false report; informal: mudslinging, bad-mouthing.

verb
she alleged the magazine had libeled her: defame, malign, slander, blacken someone's name, sully someone's reputation, speak ill/evil of, traduce, smear, cast aspersions on, drag someone's name through the mud, besmirch, tarnish, taint, tell lies about, stain, impugn someone's character/integrity, vilify, denigrate, disparage, run down, stigmatize, discredit, slur; informal dis, bad-mouth; formal derogate, calumniate.

anlocken, ködern

verb
he tried to entice us by promising a screen test at his studio: tempt, lure, allure, attract, appeal to; invite, persuade, convince, beguile, coax, woo, court; seduce, lead on; informal: sweet-talk.

liefern; anvertrauen, übergeben

verb
1 he was consigned to Sing Sing: send to, deliver to, hand over to, turn over to, sentence to; confine in, imprison in, incarcerate in, lock up in; (consign to prison/jail) informal: put away, put behind bars, send up the river.
2 the picture was consigned to the gallery: assign, allocate, place, put, remit, commit.
3 the package was consigned by a local company: send (off), courier, dispatch, transmit, convey, mail, post, ship.
4 I consigned her picture to the garbage can: deposit, commit, banish, relegate.

anfechten, beschuldigen

verb
1 he was arraigned for murder: indict for, prosecute for, put on trial for, bring to trial for, take to court for, lay/file/prefer charges against for, summons for, cite for; accuse of, charge with, incriminate with; archaic: inculpate for. antonym: acquit.
2 they bitterly arraigned the government: criticize, censure, impugn, attack, condemn, chastise, lambaste, rebuke, admonish, remonstrate with, take to task, berate, reproach; informal: knock, slam, blast, lay into; castigate, excoriate. antonym: praise.

unappetitlich, geschmacklos, widerwärtig

adjective
1 unsavory portions of food: unpalatable, unappetizing, distasteful, disagreeable, unappealing, repugnant, off-putting, unattractive; inedible, uneatable, disgusting, revolting, nauseating, sickening, foul, raunchy, nasty, vile; tasteless, bland, flavorless; informal: yucky. antonym: tasty, appetizing.
2 an unsavory character: disreputable, unpleasant, undesirable, disagreeable, nasty, mean, rough; immoral, degenerate, dishonorable, dishonest, unprincipled, unscrupulous, low, villainous; informal: shady, crooked. antonym: reputable.

bockig, widerspenstig

Kabbelei, Zank

small argument

in die Länge ziehen, hinziehen, verschleppen

verb
the opposition will try to protract the discussion: prolong, lengthen, extend, draw out, drag out, spin out, stretch out, string out, elongate; carry on, continue, keep up, perpetuate. antonym: curtail, shorten.

agil, hurtig

adjective
isn't Aunt Helen spry for her age?: sprightly, lively, agile, nimble, energetic, active, full of energy, full of vim and vigor, vigorous, spirited, animated, vivacious, frisky, peppy. antonym: doddery, lethargic.

auslassen, weglassen, nicht berücksichtigen

verb
1 they omitted his name from the list: leave out, exclude, leave off, fail to mention, miss, pass over; take out, drop, cut, delete, eliminate, erase, rub out, cross out, expunge, strike out. antonym: include.
2 I omitted to mention our guest lecturer: forget, neglect, fail; leave undone, overlook, ignore, skip.
antonym: remember.

abgedroschen, banal, trivial, ausgeleiert, abgegriffen

adjective
your hackneyed arguments fail to persuade anyone: overused, overdone, overworked, worn out, timeworn, platitudinous, vapid, stale, tired, threadbare; trite, banal, hack, clichéd, hoary, commonplace, common, ordinary, stock, conventional, stereotyped, predictable; unimaginative, unoriginal, uninspired, prosaic, dull, boring, pedestrian, run-of-the-mill, boilerplate, routine; informal old hat, cheesy, corny, played out. antonym: original.

Stumpfheit, Uneinsichtigkeit

Antonym: perspicacity

adjective
he frustrated his teachers by pretending to be obtuse: stupid, slow-witted, slow, dull-witted, unintelligent, ignorant, simpleminded, witless; insensitive, imperceptive, uncomprehending; informal dim, dimwitted, dense, dumb, slow on the uptake, halfwitted, brain-dead, moronic, cretinous, thick, dopey, lamebrained, dumb-ass, dead from the neck up, boneheaded, chowderheaded.
antonym clever, astute.

Ansporn; Stachelstock

antreiben, aufreizen

noun
1 he applied his goad to the cows: prod, spike, staff, crook, rod.
2 a goad to political change: stimulus, incentive, encouragement, inducement, fillip, spur, prod, prompt, catalyst; motive, motivation.

verb
we were goaded into action: provoke, spur, prod, egg on, hound, badger, incite, rouse, stir, move, stimulate, motivate, prompt, induce, encourage, urge, inspire; impel, pressure, dragoon.

speien, spuken, raushusten, abhusten

verb [ intrans. ]
cough or spit out phlegm from the throat or lungs.
• [ trans. ] spit out (phlegm) in this way.

hinunterschlingen, verschlingen, schlucken

Schluck

verb
1 she gulped her juice: swallow, guzzle (down), quaff, swill down, down; informal: swig, knock back, chug, chugalug. antonym: sip.
2 he gulped down the rest of his meal: gobble (down), guzzle (down), devour, bolt down, wolf down; informal: put away, demolish, polish off, shovel in/down, scoff (down). antonym: nibble.
3 Lisa gulped back her tears: choke back, fight back, hold back/in, suppress, stifle, smother.

noun
a gulp of cold beer: mouthful, swallow, draft; informal: swig.

auf- und abgehen

Schritt, Geschwindigkeit, Tempo

noun
1 he stepped back a pace: step, stride.
2 a slow, steady pace: gait, stride, walk, march.
3 he drove home at a furious pace; speed, rate, velocity; informal: clip, lick.

verb
she paced up and down: walk, stride, tread, march, pound, patrol.

gemütlich gehen, schlendern

Passgang (Pferd)

verb
ambling through the park: stroll, saunter, wander, ramble, promenade, walk, go for a walk, take a walk; informal: mosey, toddle, tootle; formal: perambulate.

berauben, plündern, ausplündern

verb
1 a village despoiled by invaders: plunder, pillage, rob, ravage, raid, ransack, rape, loot, sack; devastate, lay waste, ruin.
2 the thief despoiled him of all he had: rob, strip, deprive, dispossess, denude, divest, relieve, clean out.

sich davonmachen, sich aus dem Staub machen, ausreißen, flüchten; abmarschieren, das Lager abbrechen

verb
1 he decamped with the profits: abscond, make off, run off/away, flee, bolt, take flight, disappear, vanish, steal away, sneak away, escape, make a run for it, leave, depart; informal: split, scram, vamoose, cut and run, do a disappearing act, head for the hills, go AWOL, take a powder, go on the lam.
2 archaic : the armies decamped: strike one's tents, break camp, move on.

abgießen, umfüllen

verb
the wine was decanted into a flask: pour off, draw off, siphon off, drain, tap; transfer.

affektiert, pingelig, zimperlich, etepetete

adjective
their fancy words and finicky manners: fussy, fastidious, punctilious, over-particular, difficult, exacting, demanding; informal: picky, choosy, persnickety; archaic: nice.

erschöpft, überarbeitet; hysterisch

adjective

wiederbeleben

verb
1 medics resuscitated him: bring around, revive, bring back to consciousness; give CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) to, give the kiss of life to.
2 measures to resuscitate the economy: revive, resurrect, restore, regenerate, revitalize, breathe new life into, reinvigorate, rejuvenate, stimulate.

in Erinnerung schwelgen, sich zurückerinnern

verb
we reminisced about Freddy's first Christmas with us: remember, remember with pleasure, cast one's mind back to, look back on, be nostalgic about, recall, recollect, reflect on, call to mind.
 

Einbildung; Eingebildetheit

noun
1 his extraordinary conceit: vanity, narcissism, conceitedness, egotism, self-admiration, self-regard; pride, arrogance, hubris, self-importance; self-satisfaction, smugness; informal: bigheadedness; literary: vainglory. antonym: humility.
2 the conceits of Shakespeare's verse: image, imagery, metaphor, simile, trope; play on words, pun, quip, witticism.
3 the conceit of time travel: idea, notion, fancy.

reichlich, weitschweifig

adjective
she took copious notes: abundant, superabundant, plentiful, ample, profuse, full, extensive, generous, bumper, lavish, fulsome, liberal, overflowing, in abundance, many, prevalent, rampant, rife, numerous; informal: galore; literary: plenteous. antonym sparse.

optional; Handlungsfreiheit

adjective
a discretionary service charge: optional, voluntary, at one's discretion, elective. antonym: compulsory.

schwanger sein

auf den Kopf stellen, hochkant stellen, umstülpen, aufrichten

verb
the table was upended in the struggle: overturn, invert, turn over, turn upside down; capsize, flip, tip, keel over, turn turtle; trip, take the legs out from under.

blendendes Licht

anblitzen

Esprit, Verstand, Witz

bemerken

noun
1 (wits) : he needed all his wits to escape: intelligence, shrewdness, astuteness, cleverness, canniness, sense, common sense, wisdom, sagacity, judgment, acumen, insight; brains, mind; informal: gumption, savvy, horse sense, smarts, street smarts.
2 my sparkling wit: wittiness, humor, funniness, drollery, esprit; repartee, badinage, banter, wordplay; jokes, witticisms, quips, puns.
3 she's such a wit: comedian, humorist, comic, joker, jokester; informal: wag, card, funnyman.

funkelnd

adjective
1 a scintillating diamond: necklace sparkling, shining, bright, brilliant, gleaming, glittering, twinkling, shimmering, glistening; literary: glistering. antonym: dull.
2 a scintillating performance: brilliant, dazzling, exciting, exhilarating, stimulating; sparkling, lively, buzzy, vivacious, vibrant, animated, ebullient, effervescent; witty, clever; literary: coruscating. antonym: dull, boring.

verachtungsvoll, herablassend, despektierlich

adjective
the contemptuous look on your face says it all: scornful, disdainful, disrespectful, insulting, insolent, derisive, mocking, sneering, scoffing, withering, scathing, snide; condescending, supercilious, haughty, proud, superior, arrogant, dismissive, aloof; informal: high and mighty, snotty, sniffy. antonym. respectful.