preceptive



authoritative, autodidactic, binding, canonical, coeducational, commanding, compelling, cultural, dictated, dictating, didactic, directive, disciplinary, edifying, educating,

   hurl at - cast, chuck, fire, fling, heave, hurl, let fly at, shy, sling, throw, toss ,

   uncooked - crude, rare, raw, red ,

   newsworthiness - advice, fourth estate, information, intelligence, journalism, newsletter, newspaper, press, radio, reportage, television, tidings, wire service, word ,

   shrubbery - alpine garden, arboretum, bed, bog garden, border, botanical garden, bracken, brake, bramble, brier, brier bush, bush, coppice, copse, dry garden,

   high-living - debauched, dissipated, dissolute, licentious, riotous ,

   sneak thief - booster, con man, crook, ghoul, grafter, grave robber, lifter, poacher, prowler, robber, scrounger, shoplifter, swindler ,

   sexton - acolyte, almoner, beadle, choir chaplain, churchwarden, clerk, deacon, deaconess, elder, lay elder, lay reader, lecturer, parish clerk, reader, ruling elder,

   spaniel - backslapper, brownie, courtier, creature, dog, dupe, flatterer, flunky, groveller, helot, hound, instrument, jackal, lackey, minion,

   foredeck - beak, bow, figurehead, nose, rostrum, stem ,

   disappoint - awaken, baffle, baulk, beat, bilk, break the spell, burst the bubble, cast down, circumvent, correct, cross, dash, debunk, deceive, defeat,