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Adjectives (5)

foul, vile, noisome, nauseous, sickening

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

Fuzzynyms (92)

hateful

adj. evoking or deserving hatred; "no vice is universally as hateful as ingratitude"- Joseph Priestly

livery, bilious, liverish

adj. suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric distress

abominable, execrable, detestable, odious

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

atrocious, monstrous, flagitious, heinous

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"

sick, nauseated, queasy, sickish

adj. feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit

dainty, nice, overnice, prissy, squeamish

adj. excessively fastidious and easily disgusted; "too nice about his food to take to camp cooking"; "so squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow"

abusive, opprobrious, insulting, scornful, scurrilous

adj. expressing offensive reproach

jeering, derisive, derisory, mocking

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

belittling, depreciative, depreciatory, derogative, derogatory, detractive, disparaging, slighting

adj. expressive of low opinion; "derogatory comments"; "disparaging remarks about the new house"

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

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

unappetizing, distasteful, unsavory, unsavoury

adj. not pleasing in odor or taste

flat, insipid, bland, flavorless, flavourless, savorless, savourless

adj. lacking taste or flavor or tang; "a bland diet"; "insipid hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid beer"; "vapid tea"

tasteless

adj. lacking flavor

nasty

adj. offensive or even (of persons) malicious; "in a nasty mood"; "a nasty accident"; "a nasty shock"; "a nasty smell"; "a nasty trick to pull"; "Will he say nasty things at my funeral?"- Ezra Pound

common, crude, coarse

adj. of low or inferior quality or value; "of what coarse metal ye are molded"- Shakespeare; "produced...the common cloths used by the poorer population"

profane

adj. not sacred or concerned with religion; "sacred and profane music"; "children being brought up in an entirely profane environment"

gory, sanguinary, sanguineous, slaughterous, violent, butcherly

adj. accompanied by bloodshed; "this bitter and sanguinary war"

bloody

adj. having or covered with or accompanied by blood; "a bloody nose"; "your scarf is all bloody"; "the effects will be violent and probably bloody"; "a bloody fight"

ghastly, grisly, gruesome, lurid, macabre

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"

ugly, atrocious, frightful, horrifying, horrible

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"

caitiff, despicable

adj. despicably mean and cowardly

infernal

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

damnable, execrable

adj. deserving a curse; "her damnable pride"

nefarious, villainous

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

base, ugly, vile

adj. morally reprehensible; "would do something as despicable as murder"; "ugly crimes"; "the vile development of slavery appalled them"; "a slimy little liar"

contemptible

adj. deserving of contempt or scorn

Synonyms (36)

repulsive, obscene, detestable, abhorrent, repugnant

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"

gross, swinish, bestial

adj. ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance; "was boorish and insensitive"; "the loutish manners of a bully"; "her stupid oafish husband"; "aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude"

ghastly, sepulchral, charnel

adj. gruesomely indicative of death or the dead; "a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones"; "ghastly shrieks"; "the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs"

crying, rank, gross, egregious, flagrant

adj. conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible; "a crying shame"; "an egregious lie"; "flagrant violation of human rights"; "a glaring error"; "gross ineptitude"; "gross injustice"; "rank treachery"

repellent, repellant, distasteful, disgusting, disgustful, loathly, loathsome, revolting, yucky, rebarbative

adj. highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust; "a disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me"; "revolting food"; "a wicked stench"

morbid, ghoulish

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

hideous, horrid, 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"

objectionable, unpleasant, obnoxious

adj. causing disapproval or protest; "a vulgar and objectionable person"

scrimy

adj. dirty and disgusting; "worry about the gossip and secretiveness and other scrimy sides"- Al Hine

verminous

adj. of the nature of vermin; very offensive or repulsive

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