adj. very unpleasant; "hellish weather"; "stop that god-awful racket"

adj. very unpleasant; "hellish weather"; "stop that god-awful racket"

adj. extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell; "something demonic in him--something that could be cruel"; "fires lit up a diabolic scene"; "diabolical sorcerers under the influence of devils"; "a fiendish despot"; "hellish torture"; "infernal instruments of war"; "satanic cruelty"; "unholy grimaces"

adj. extremely wicked; "nefarious schemes"; "a villainous plot"; "a villainous band of thieves"

adj. suggesting the horror of death and decay; "morbid details"

adj. bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure; "a criminal waste of talent"; "a deplorable act of violence"; "adultery is as reprehensible for a husband as for a wife"

adj. having or exerting a malignant influence; "malevolent stars"; "a malefic force"

adj. having the nature of or resulting from malice; "malicious gossip"; "took malicious pleasure in...watching me wince"- Rudyard Kipling

adj. suggestive of the supernatural; mysterious; "an eerie feeling of deja vu"

adj. shockingly repellent; inspiring horror; "ghastly wounds"; "the grim aftermath of the bombing"; "the grim task of burying the victims"; "a grisly murder"; "gruesome evidence of human sacrifice"; "macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages"; "macabre tortures conceived by madmen"

adj. being of a lower world of the dead; "infernal regions"

adj. revoltingly ugly: "a hideous scar"; "twisted into monstrous shapes"; "a monstrous urban wilderness"

adj. requiring full use of your abilities or resources; "ambitious schedule"; "performed the most challenging task without a mistake"

adj. making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe; "a baffling problem"; "I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast"; "a problematic situation at home"

adj. having concealed difficulty; "a catchy question"; "a tricky recipe to follow"

adj. difficult to handle; requiring great tact; "delicate negotiations with the big powers";"hesitates to be explicit on so ticklish a matter"; "a touchy subject"

adj. causing vexation or worry: "trying times"; "serious problems"

adj. impressively difficult; "a tall order"

adj. extremely difficult; requiring the strength of a Hercules; "a herculean task"

adj. hard to manage; inclined to make trouble: "a difficult child"

adj. requiring great effort; "a hard-fought primary"

adj. exasperatingly difficult to handle or circumvent; "a nasty problem"; "a good man to have on your side in a tight situation"

adj. full of hardship or trials; "the rocky road to success"; "they were having a rough time"

adj. causing difficulty in finding an answer or solution; much disputed; "the vexed issue of priorities"; "we live in vexed and troubled times"

adj. harsh or corrosive in tone; "an acerbic tone piercing otherwise flowery prose"; "a barrage of acid comments"; "her acrid remarks make her many enemies"; "bitter words"; "blistering criticism"; "caustic jokes about political assassination, talk-show hosts and medical ethics"; "a sulfurous denunciation"; "a vitriolic critique"

adj. harsh; "sharp criticism"; "a sharp-worded exchange"; "a tart remark"

adj. disagreeable; "I will not perform the ungrateful task of comparing cases of failure"- Abraham Lincoln

adj. harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance; "a dour, self-sacrificing life"; "a forbidding scowl"; "a grim man loving duty more than humanity"; "undoubtedly the grimmest part of him was his iron claw"- J.M.Barrie

adj. very unpleasant

adj. causing to feel shame or chagrin or vexation; "the embarrassing moment when she found her petticoat down around her ankles"; "it was mortifying to know he had heard every word"

adj. causing misery or pain or distress; "it was a sore trial to him"; "the painful process of growing up"

adj. serving or tending to repel; "he became rebarbative and prickly and spiteful"; "I find his obsequiousness repellent"

adj. causing discomfort; "the unhappy truth"

adj. without beauty or charm

adj. shockingly brutal or cruel; "murder is an atrocious crime"; "a grievous offense against morality"; "a grievous crime"; "no excess was too monstrous for them to commit"

adj. stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable; "black deeds"; "a black lie"; "his black heart has concocted yet another black deed"; "Darth Vader of the dark side"; "a dark purpose"; "dark undercurrents of ethnic hostility"; "the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him"-Thomas Hardy

adj. characterized by wickedness or immorality; "led a very bad life"

adj. "the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him"-Thomas Hardy

adj. showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil; "devilish schemes"; "the cold calculation and diabolic art of some statesmen"; "the diabolical expression on his face"; "a mephistophelian glint in his eye"

adj. having evil thoughts or intentions

adj. marked by utter benignity; resembling or befitting an angel or saint; "angelic beneficence"; "a beatific smile"; "a saintly concern for his fellow men"; "my sainted mother"

adj. mentally healthy; free from mental disorder; "appears to be completely sane"