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(adj)
Wicked, offensive, or reprehensible in nature or behaviour; nefarious.
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Evil or mischievous by nature; morally reprehensible.
(n)
The state of being wicked; evil disposition; immorality.
Intending to harm; malevolent.
Harmful, malevolent, injurious.
Having a bad reputation; disreputable; notorious; unpleasant or evil; widely known, especially for something scornful.
Intending to do harm; characterized by spite and malice.
Evil or seemingly evil; indicating lurking danger or harm.
Morally objectionable; sinful, wicked.
Of a person or entity: generally or widely known for something negative; infamous.
Fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean.
Not holy; (by extension) evil, impure, or otherwise perverted.
Full of hatred.
Bringing or warranting disgrace; shameful.
Causing or meriting shame or disgrace; disgraceful
Worthy of, or causing, abhorrence, as a thing of evil omen; odious in the utmost degree; very hateful; detestable; loathsome; execrable.
Morally low; base; despicable.
Violating morality or decency; provoking indignation or affront.
Arousing or meriting strong dislike, aversion, or intense displeasure.
Abhorring; detesting; having or showing abhorrence; loathing.
Bad, evil or villainous.
Causing much harm in a subtle way.
Requiring action to prevent bad consequences: urgent, pressing.
Extremely or shockingly ugly.
Very bad.
(formal) Harmful, often in a subtle or unexpected way.
unlucky; doomed.
Very bad; abominable, disgusting.
Extremely bad; awful; terrible.
Extremely offensive or unpleasant; very annoying, contemptible, or odious.
Displeasing to the eye; aesthetically unpleasing.
Of low quality.
Causing or likely to cause harm or damage; injurious.
Not honorable; base.
Extremely unfavorable; terrible.
Causing horror; terrible; shocking.
Blameworthy, censurable, guilty.
Of the nature of a disaster; calamitous.
the desire to cause harm to others; extreme cruelty
Violent, destructive and cruel.
Genuinely horrific, awful, or alarming; dangerous, risky.
Causing physical harm or injury; harmful, hurtful.
Causing damage or harm.
Causing horror; horrifying.
Causing damage; harmful, injurious.
Very unpleasant; disagreeable.
Repellently frightful and shocking; ghastly, horrific.
Causing harm in a stealthy, often gradual, manner.
Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding.
Not sufferable; very difficult or impossible to endure; intolerable, unbearable.
Given up by the guardian or owner; abandoned, forsaken.
Not positive or neutral; bad; undesirable; unfavourable.
Impossible to speak about.
Morally wrong or evil; wicked; perverted.
Ruthlessly competitive, dog-eat-dog.
Causing harm or injury; detrimental, harmful or injurious.
Causing death or destruction.
Current; of the present.
Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen
(of ideas or views) Contrary to mainstream or accepted opinion.
Stormy, of rough weather; not clement.
(literary) Guilty of terrible crimes; wicked, criminal.
Very difficult.
(adv)
In the manner of a villain.
Having a wicked, malignant disposition; morally bad.
(especially) Wicked; evil; cruel.
Constituting a sin; morally or religiously wrong; wicked; evil.
(informal, humorous, rare) Characterised by or characteristic of sin; sinful; guilty of sin; wicked.
(criminal law) A person who has committed a felony (“serious criminal offence”); specifically, one who has been tried and convicted of such a crime.
Evil, fiendish, devilish or diabolical.
Wicked, evil.
Intense.
An inhabitant of the infernal regions, a demon.
Contemptible, unpleasant (of a person).
(now rare) Like a fiend; devilish.
somewhat evil
Resembling or characteristic of a sin.
Expiatory; serving to atone.
Tawny, dusky, dark.
Characterised or marked by vileness
Archaic form of sinful. [Having sinned; guilty of sin.]
Of perishable items, overridden with bacteria and other infectious agents.
Feeling or exhibiting envy; jealously desiring the excellence or good fortune of another; maliciously grudging.
Somewhat wicked.
Like a devil; diabolical.
(rare) Synonym of larcenous.
(obsolete) sickly
venomous, malicious or treacherous
unattractive; ugly
Dominated or plagued by sin.
In manner, like the devil; characterised or marked by devilry; (by extension) causing mischief or trouble; problematic
Constantly complaining, especially in a childish way due to insignificant matters; fretful, whiny.
Showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil.
Resembling or characteristic of crime.
Containing sufficient poison to be dangerous to touch or ingest.
Like a fiend; fiendish
Malevolent; cold and cruel.
Portending evil; ominous.