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adj. characterized by physical or psychological maltreatment; "abusive punishment"; "argued...that foster homes are abusive"

opprobrious, scurrilous

adj. expressing offensive reproach

Fuzzynyms (62)

pitiless, unkind

adj. deficient in humane and kindly feelings

brutal

adj. disagreeably direct and precise; "he spoke with brutal honesty"

contemptuous, disdainful, insulting, scornful

adj. expressing extreme contempt

damnatory, damning

adj. threatening with damnation

admonitory, admonishing, reproachful, reproving

adj. expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective

hideous, horrid, horrific, outrageous

adj. grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror; "subjected to outrageous cruelty"; "a hideous pattern of injustice"; "horrific conditions in the mining industry"

disgraceful, scandalous, shameful, shocking

adj. giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation; "scandalous behavior"; "the wicked rascally shameful conduct of the bankrupt"- Thackeray; "the most shocking book of its time"

abominable, detestable, execrable, odious

adj. unequivocally detestable; "abominable treatment of prisoners"; "detestable vices"; "execrable crimes"; "consequences odious to those you govern"- Edmund Burke

flagitious, heinous

adj. extremely wicked, deeply criminal; "a flagitious crime"; "heinous accusations"

atrocious, frightful, horrifying, horrible, ugly

adj. provoking horror; "an atrocious automobile accident"; "a frightful crime of decapitation"; "an alarming, even horrifying, picture"; "war is beyond all words horrible"- Winston Churchill; "an ugly wound"

hideous, repulsive

adj. so extremely ugly as to be terrifying; "a hideous scar"; "a repulsive mask"

nauseating, nauseous, noisome, queasy, loathsome, offensive, sickening, vile

adj. causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench"

derisive, gibelike, jeering, mocking, taunting

adj. abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule; "derisive laughter"; "a jeering crowd"; "her mocking smile"; "taunting shouts of `coward' and `sissy'"

detractive

adj. causing to decrease in importance or value; "detractive influences on the volume of investment"

calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrative, denigrating, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous

adj. (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign

abhorrent, detestable, obscene, repugnant, repulsive

adj. offensive to the mind; "an abhorrent deed"; "the obscene massacre at Wounded Knee"; "morally repugnant customs"; "repulsive behavior"; "the most repulsive character in recent novels"

Synonyms (27)

bad

adj. capable of harming; "bad air"; "smoking is bad for you"

deleterious, hurtful, injurious

adj. harmful to living things; "deleterious chemical additives"

calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrative, denigrating, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous

adj. (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign

cataclysmal, cataclysmic

adj. severely destructive; "cataclysmic nuclear war"; "a cataclysmic earthquake"

catastrophic, ruinous

adj. extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin; "a catastrophic depression"; "catastrophic illness"; "a ruinous course of action"

counterproductive

adj. tending to hinder the achievement of a goal

prejudicial, prejudicious

adj. tending to favor preconceived ideas; "the presence of discriminatory or prejudicial attitudes in the white population"

insidious, pernicious, subtle

adj. working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way; "glaucoma is an insidious disease"; "a subtle poison"

mischievous

adj. deliberately causing harm or damage; "mischievous rumors and falsehoods"

nocent

adj. having a tendency to cause harm

stabbing, wounding

adj. causing physical or especially psychological injury; "a stabbing remark"; "wounding and false charges of disloyalty"

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