pride vs smear

pride

noun
  • Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct; insolent exultation. 

  • Lust; sexual desire; especially, excitement of sexual appetite in a female animal. 

  • That of which one is proud; that which excites boasting or self-congratulation; the occasion or ground of self-esteem, or of arrogant and presumptuous confidence, as beauty, ornament, noble character, children, etc. 

  • A sense of one's own worth, and scorn for what is beneath or unworthy of oneself; lofty self-respect; noble self-esteem; elevation of character; dignified bearing; rejection of shame 

  • Show; ostentation; glory. 

  • The small European lamprey species Petromyzon branchialis. 

  • The quality or state of being proud; an unreasonable overestimation of one's own superiority in terms of talents, looks, wealth, importance etc., which manifests itself in lofty airs, distance, reserve and often contempt of others. 

  • Consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits; mettle; wantonness. 

  • Highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory. 

  • A company of lions or other large felines. 

verb
  • To take or experience pride in something; to be proud of it. 

smear

noun
  • A false or unsupported, malicious statement intended to injure a person's reputation. 

  • A Pap smear (screening test for cervical cancer). 

  • Any of various forms of distortion that make a signal harder to see or hear. 

  • A mark made by smearing. 

  • A rough glissando in jazz music. 

  • A maneuver in which the shoe is placed onto the holdless rock, and the friction from the shoe keeps it in contact 

  • A preparation to be examined under a microscope, made by spreading a thin layer of a substance (such as blood, bacterial culture) on a slide. 

verb
  • To damage someone's reputation by slandering, misrepresenting, or otherwise making false accusations about them, their statements, or their actions. 

  • To become messy or not clear by being spread. 

  • To spread (a substance, especially one that colours or is dirty) across a surface by rubbing. 

  • To make something dirty. 

  • To cause (something) to be messy or not clear by rubbing and spreading it. 

  • To cause (something) to be a particular colour by covering with a substance. 

  • To climb without using footholds, using the friction from the shoe to stay on the wall. 

  • To cover (a surface with a layer of some substance) by rubbing. 

  • To rub (a body part, etc.) across a surface. 

  • To write or draw (something) by spreading a substance on a surface. 

  • (of a substance, etc.) To make a surface dirty by covering it. 

  • To attempt to remove (a substance) from a surface by rubbing. 

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