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Adjectives (21)
base, ugly
adj. morally reprehensible; "would do something as despicable as murder"; "ugly crimes"; "the vile development of slavery appalled them"; "a slimy little liar"
foul, noisome, nauseating, nauseous, sickening
adj. causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench"
foul, dirty, unpleasant, filthy, nasty, abominable, beastly
adj. disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter; "as filthy as a pigsty"; "a foul pond"; "a nasty pigsty of a room"
base, low, low-down, miserable, despicable, abject, lowdown
adj. of the most contemptible kind; "abject cowardice"; "a low stunt to pull"; "a low-down sneak"; "his miserable treatment of his family"; "You miserable skunk!"; "a scummy rabble"; "a scurvy trick"
Fuzzynyms (239)
immoral
adj. deliberately violating accepted principles of right and wrong
evil, wicked
adj. morally bad or wrong; "evil purposes"; "an evil influence"; "evil deeds"
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"
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"
hideous, monstrous
adj. revoltingly ugly: "a hideous scar"; "twisted into monstrous shapes"; "a monstrous urban wilderness"
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"
ugly
adj. displeasing to the senses; "an ugly face"; "ugly furniture"
ugly, surly
adj. inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace; "a surly waiter"; "an ugly frame of mind"
unsightly
adj. unpleasant to look at; "unsightly billboards"
libertine, degenerate, profligate, degraded, debauched, dissipated, dissolute
adj. unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women"
impure
adj. (used of persons or behaviors) immoral or obscene; "impure thoughts"
gross, earthy, coarse
adj. conspicuously and tastelessly indecent; "coarse language"; "a crude joke"; "crude behavior"; "an earthy sense of humor"; "a revoltingly gross expletive"; "a vulgar gesture"; "full of language so vulgar it should have been edited"
infernal
adj. being of a lower world of the dead; "infernal regions"
abominable, execrable, detestable, odious
adj. unequivocally detestable; "abominable treatment of prisoners"; "detestable vices"; "execrable crimes"; "consequences odious to those you govern"- Edmund Burke
damnable, execrable
adj. deserving a curse; "her damnable pride"
foul, vile, noisome, nauseating, nauseous, sickening
adj. causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench"
base
adj. (used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal; "base coins of aluminum"; "a base metal"
hateful
adj. evoking or deserving hatred; "no vice is universally as hateful as ingratitude"- Joseph Priestly
objectionable, unpleasant, obnoxious
adj. causing disapproval or protest; "a vulgar and objectionable person"
indecent, indecorous, untoward, unbecoming, uncomely, unseemly
adj. not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society; "was buried with indecent haste"; "indecorous behavior"; "language unbecoming to a lady"; "unseemly to use profanity"; "moved to curb their untoward ribaldry"
dirty, soiled, unclean
adj. soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime; "dirty unswept sidewalks"; "a child in dirty overalls"; "dirty slums"; "piles of dirty dishes"; "put his dirty feet on the clean sheet"; "wore an unclean shirt"; "mining is a dirty job"; "Cinderella did the dirty work while her sisters preened themselves"
dirty, infected, contaminated
adj. contaminated with infecting organisms; "dirty wounds"; "obliged to go into infected rooms"- Jane Austen
corrupt, crooked
adj. not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive
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
abominable, execrable, detestable, odious
adj. unequivocally detestable; "abominable treatment of prisoners"; "detestable vices"; "execrable crimes"; "consequences odious to those you govern"- Edmund Burke
hateful
adj. evoking or deserving hatred; "no vice is universally as hateful as ingratitude"- Joseph Priestly
mean, beggarly
adj. (used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt
mean, beggarly
adj. marked by poverty befitting a beggar; "a beggarly existence in the slums"; "a mean hut"
low
adj. less than normal in degree or intensity or amount; "low prices"; "the reservoir is low"
abominable, execrable, detestable, odious
adj. unequivocally detestable; "abominable treatment of prisoners"; "detestable vices"; "execrable crimes"; "consequences odious to those you govern"- Edmund Burke
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"
inglorious, disgraceful, ignominious, opprobrious, shameful
adj. (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame; "Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands"- Rachel Carson; "an ignominious retreat"; "inglorious defeat"; "an opprobrious monument to human greed"; "a shameful display of cowardice"
caitiff, despicable
adj. despicably mean and cowardly
ignoble
adj. completely lacking nobility in character or quality or purpose; "something cowardly and ignoble in his attitude"; "I think it a less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part"- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
dastard, dastardly
adj. treacherously cowardly; "the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on...December 7th"- F.D. Roosevelt
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"
hateful
adj. evoking or deserving hatred; "no vice is universally as hateful as ingratitude"- Joseph Priestly
ill-famed, infamous, notorious
adj. having an exceedingly bad reputation; "a notorious gangster"; "the tenderloin district was notorious for vice"
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"
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"
trifling, paltry, negligible, piddling, piffling
adj. not worth considering; "he considered the prize too paltry for the lives it must cost"; "piffling efforts"; "a trifling matter"
immoral
adj. deliberately violating accepted principles of right and wrong
inconsequent, inconsequential
adj. lacking worth or importance; "his work seems trivial and inconsequential"; "the quite inconsequent fellow was managed like a puppet"
insignificant, unimportant
adj. not important or noteworthy
peddling, small, lilliputian, little, petty, trivial, fiddling, footling, niggling, picayune
adj. (informal) small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction"
criminal, shameful, condemnable, reprehensible
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"
base, mean, scurvy, contemptible, currish, meanspirited, mean-spirited
adj. having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality; "that liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble"- Edmund Burke; "taking a mean advantage"; "chok'd with ambition of the meaner sort"- Shakespeare; "something essentially vulgar and meanspirited in politics"
Synonyms (56)
evil, vicious, depraved
adj. having the nature of vice
ungodly, sinful, iniquitous, peccant
adj. characterized by iniquity; wicked because it is believed to be a sin; "iniquitous deeds"; "he said it was sinful to wear lipstick"; "ungodly acts"
unreformable, irredeemable, irreclaimable, unredeemable
adj. insusceptible of reform; "vicious irreclaimable boys"; "irredeemable sinners"
nefarious, villainous
adj. extremely wicked; "nefarious schemes"; "a villainous plot"; "a villainous band of thieves"
peccable
adj. liable to sin; "a frail and peccable mortal"- Sir Walter Scott
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
severe, intemperate
adj. (of weather or climate) not mild; subject to extremes; "an intemperate climate"; "intemperate zones"
rainy
adj. (of weather) wet by periods of rain; "showery weather"; "rainy days"
pathetic, pitiable, pitiful
adj. inspiring mixed contempt and pity; "their efforts were pathetic"; "pitiable lack of character"; "pitiful exhibition of cowardice"
Antonyms (1)
virtuous
adj. morally excellent
vile
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