slap in the face

Strongest matches

• indignity
• provocation
• slight

Strong matches

• abuse
• brickbat
• injury
• offense
• outrage
• put down
• slap
• slur
• vexation
• wrong

Weak matches

• backhanded compliment
• dirty deed
• left-handed compliment

Strongest matches

• abuse
• affront
• blasphemy
• contempt
• disgrace
• disrespect
• indignity
• invective
• libel
• outrage
• put-down
• scorn
• shame
• slander
• slap
• slight
• snub
• taunt

Strong matches

• aspersion
• contumely
• derision
• despite
• discourtesy
• disdainfulness
• ignominy
• impertinence
• impudence
• incivility
• insolence
• mockery
• obloquy
• offense
• opprobrium
• rudeness
• scurrility
• slam
• superciliousness
• vilification
• vituperation

Weak matches

• black eye
• cheap shot
• unpleasantry

Weak matches

• aspersion
• back-handed compliment
• home truth
• insult
• no compliment
• slight
• snub
• uncomplimentary remark

Strongest matches

• assault
• attack
• injury

Strong matches

• affront
• aggression
• battery
• blitz
• blitzkrieg
• dig
• harm
• hit
• hurt
• indignation
• indignity
• injustice
• mugging
• onset
• onslaught
• outrage
• push
• put-down
• slam
• slight
• snub
• zinger

Weak matches

• assailment
• black eye
• dirty dig
• left-handed compliment

Strongest matches

• admonition
• censure
• condemnation
• disapproval
• punishment
• rebuff
• reproach
• snub

Strong matches

• admonishment
• affliction
• berating
• blame
• castigation
• chiding
• comeuppance
• correction
• earful
• expostulation
• going-over
• lecture
• lesson
• objurgation
• ostracism
• put down
• rap
• rating
• refusal
• remonstrance
• reprehension
• reproof
• reproval
• repulse
• row
• scolding
• tongue-lashing
• upbraiding

Weak matches

• bawling-out
• chewing-out
• dressing-down
• hard time
• kick in the teeth
• talking-to
• telling-off

Strongest matches

• elimination
• exclusion
• repudiation
• veto

Strong matches

• bounce
• brush-off
• dismissal
• nix
• pass
• rebuff
• renunciation
• turndown

Weak matches

• cold shoulder
• disallowance
• hard time
• kick in teeth
• no dice
• no-go
• nothing doing
• thumbs-down

Strong matches

• brush-off
• check
• defeat
• disappointment
• failure
• nix
• rebuff
• refusal
• reverse
• spurning
• turndown

Weak matches

• cold shoulder
• nothing doing
• thumbs-down

Weak matches

• affront
• aggression
• assailment
• assault
• attack
• battery
• black eye
• blitz
• blitzkrieg
• dig
• dirty dig
• dudgeon
• harm
• hit
• huff
• hurt
• indignation
• indignity
• injury
• injustice
• left-handed compliment
• miff
• mugging
• onset
• onslaught
• outrage
• pique
• push
• put-down
• resentment
• slam
• slight
• snub
• umbrage
• zinger

Strongest matches

• affront
• rejection
• snub

Strong matches

• brush-off
• contempt
• cut
• discourtesy
• disdain
• disregard
• inattention
• indifference
• kick
• neglect
• put-down
• rebuff

Weak matches

• call down
• cold shoulder
• go-by

Weak matches

• add fuel to the fire
• aggravate
• exacerbate
• heighten
• provoke
• rub salt in the wound
• twist the knife
• worsen

Strong matches

• blacken
• blemish
• blister
• blot
• brand
• calumniate
• cap
• chop
• defame
• denigrate
• detract
• discredit
• disgrace
• insinuate
• libel
• malign
• miff
• offend
• push
• reproach
• roast
• scorch
• slander
• slight
• smear
• snub
• spatter
• stain
• traduce
• vilify
• zing

Weak matches

• blow off
• cut to the quick
• cut up
• dump on
• give a black eye
• hit where one lives
• kick in the teeth
• put down
• skin alive
• tear down