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nefarious, villainous
adj. extremely wicked; "nefarious schemes"; "a villainous plot"; "a villainous band of thieves"
Fuzzynyms (97)
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evil
adj. morally bad or wrong; "evil purposes"; "an evil influence"; "evil deeds"
condemnable, criminal, deplorable, reprehensible, vicious
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"
incorrect
adj. (of a word or expression) not agreeing with grammatical principles
demonic, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, hellish, infernal, satanic, unholy
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"
flagitious, heinous
adj. extremely wicked, deeply criminal; "a flagitious crime"; "heinous accusations"
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"
abominable, detestable, execrable, odious
adj. unequivocally detestable; "abominable treatment of prisoners"; "detestable vices"; "execrable crimes"; "consequences odious to those you govern"- Edmund Burke
inhuman
adj. belonging to or resembling something nonhuman; "something dark and inhuman in form"; "a babel of inhuman noises"
ill-famed, infamous, notorious
adj. known widely and usually unfavorably; "a notorious gangster"; "the tenderloin district was notorious for vice"; "the infamous Benedict Arnold";
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.
black, disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, 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"
crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily
adj. marked by skill in deception; "cunning men often pass for wise"; "deep political machinations"; "a foxy scheme"; "a slick evasive answer"; "sly as a fox"; "tricky Dick"; "a wily old attorney"
dastard(a), dastardly
adj. despicably cowardly; "the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on...December 7th"- F.D. Roosevelt
mendacious
adj. given to lying; "a mendacious child"
illogical, unlogical
adj. lacking in correct logical relation
devilish, diabolic, diabolical, mephistophelian, mephistophelean
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"
corruptive, perversive, pestiferous
adj. tending to corrupt or pervert
rank
adj. very offensive in smell or taste; "a rank cigar"
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"
objectionable, obnoxious
adj. causing disapproval or protest; "a vulgar and objectionable person"
debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, libertine, profligate, riotous, fast
adj. unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women"
infernal
adj. being of the underworld; "infernal regions"
damnable, execrable
adj. deserving a curse; "her damnable pride"
nauseating, nauseous, noisome, queasy, loathsome, offensive, sickening, vile
adj. causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench"
crooked, corrupt
adj. not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive
rascally, roguish, scoundrelly, blackguardly
adj. lacking principles or scruples; "the rascally rabble"; "the tyranny of a scoundrelly aristocracy" - W.M. Thackaray; "the captain was set adrift by his roguish crew"
black, dark, sinister
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
Synonyms (18)
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despicable, ugly, vile, slimy, unworthy, worthless, wretched
adj. morally reprehensible; "would do something as despicable as murder"; "ugly crimes"; "the vile development of slavery appalled them"; "a slimy little liar"
evil, vicious
adj. having the nature of vice
iniquitous, sinful, ungodly
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"
irreclaimable, irredeemable, unredeemable, unreformable
adj. insusceptible of reform; "vicious irreclaimable boys"; "irredeemable sinners"
peccable, peccant
adj. liable to sin; "a frail and peccable mortal"- Sir Walter Scott
Antonyms (6)
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virtuous
adj. morally excellent
ethical, honorable, honourable
adj. adhering to ethical and moral principles; "it seems ethical and right"; "followed the only honorable course of action"
honorable, honourable
adj. worthy of being honored; entitled to honor and respect; "an honorable man"; "led an honorable life"; "honorable service to his country"
villainous
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