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1 nefarious -- rank: 1000

nefarious definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) adj 1: extremely wicked; "nefarious schemes"; "a villainous plot"; "a villainous band of thieves" [syn: nefarious, villainous] Merriam Webster's adjective Etymology: Latin nefarius, from nefas ... f. ne- not + fas divine law Webster's 1913 Dictionary Nefarious Ne*fa"ri*ous, a. [L. nefarius, fr. nefas crime ... Collin's Cobuild Dictionary If you describe an activity as nefarious, you mean that it is wicked and immoral. (LITERARY) Why ... a whole village prisoner if it was not to some nefarious purpose? ADJ: usu ADJ n Soule's Dictionary of ...

2 Iniquitous -- rank: 571

... to this iniquitous service. --Burke. Syn: Wicked; wrong; unjust; unrighteous; nefarious; criminal. Usage: Iniquitous, Wicked, Nefarious. Wicked is the generic term. Iniquitous is stronger, denoting a ... of the rights of others, usually by fraud or circumvention. Nefarious is still stronger, implying a breach of the most sacred ... English Synonyms a. Unjust, unrighteous, unfair, inequitable, wrong, wicked, sinful, nefarious, heinous, flagitious. Moby Thesaurus abominable, arrant, atrocious, bad, baleful, base ... malefic, maleficent, malfeasant, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, monstrous, nasty, naughty, nefarious, noxious, ornery, peccant, rank, reprehensible, reprobate, scandalous, shameful, sinful, unbalanced ...

3 Nefariously -- rank: 511

... abominably. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) adv 1: in a nefarious manner or to a nefarious degree; "nefariously involved in a conspiracy" Merriam Webster's adverb see nefarious Webster's 1913 Dictionary Nefarious Ne*fa"ri*ous, a. [L. nefarius, fr. nefas crime ...

4 Vicious -- rank: 511

... price spiral > • viciously adverb • viciousness noun Synonyms: vicious, villainous, iniquitous, nefarious, corrupt, degenerate mean highly reprehensible or offensive in character, nature ... signs of justice or fairness < an iniquitous system of taxation >. nefarious suggests flagrant breaching of time-honored laws and traditions of conduct < the nefarious rackets of organized crime >. corrupt stresses a loss of moral ... malign, malignant, mean, merciless, mischievous, miscreant, monstrous, murderous, nasty, naughty, nefarious, noisome, noncivilized, nonmoral, noxious, obnoxious, odious, ominous, opprobrious, peccant, pernicious ...

5 Wicked -- rank: 440

... immoral; unjust; unrighteous; unholy; irreligious; ungodly; profane; vicious; pernicious; atrocious; nefarious; heinous; flagrant; flagitious; abandoned. See Iniquitous. Collin's Cobuild Dictionary ... corrupt. 2. Bad, evil, unjust, ill, atrocious, iniquitous, heinous, flagitious, nefarious, criminal, outrageous, monstrous, villanous. Moby Thesaurus Herculean, aberrant, abnormal, abominable ... malevolent, malfeasant, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, mischievous, monstrous, nasty, naughty, nefarious, no picnic, not done, not easy, not the thing, noxious ...

6 villainous -- rank: 440

... definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) adj 1: extremely wicked; "nefarious schemes"; "a villainous plot"; "a villainous band of thieves" [syn: nefarious, villainous] Merriam Webster's adjective Date: 14th century 1. a ... knavish, lamentable, loathsome, lousy, low, miscreant, monstrous, murderous, nasty, naughty, nefarious, noisome, notorious, objectionable, obnoxious, odious, offensive, outrageous, peccant, perfidious, perverse ...

7 Judas Iscariot -- rank: 348

... are made with the manifest purpose of showing forth the nefarious character of Judas from the beginning; and in their sequence ... also he was weak in the carrying out of his nefarious designs. It was this hesitancy, rather than a fiendish cunning ...

8 Black -- rank: 348

... doleful, sombre, mournful, disastrous, calamitous. 4. Wicked, atrocious, villanous, infamous, nefarious, heinous, flagitious, diabolic, infernal, hellish, fiendish, devilish, outrageous, monstrous, horrible ... mopey, moping, mopish, morose, mourning, mourning band, mumpish, nasty, naughty, nefarious, nigger, niggra, night, night-black, night-clad, night-cloaked, night ...

9 Flagitious -- rank: 348

... Dictionary of English Synonyms a. Atrocious, heinous, villanous, infamous, scandalous, nefarious, flagrant, profligate, corrupt, abandoned, enormously wicked. Moby Thesaurus corrupt, criminal, degenerate, depraved, disgraceful, flagrant, glaring, gross, infamous, miscreant, nefarious, perverse, rotten, scandalous, shameful, sinful, vicious, villainous, wicked

10 Diabolical -- rank: 348

... Devilish; pertaining to the devil; hence, extremely malicious; impious; atrocious; nefarious; outrageously wicked; partaking of any quality ascribed to the devil ... appropriate, or appropriate to, the devil; devilish; infernal; impious; atrocious; nefarious; outrageously wicked; as, a diabolic or diabolical temper or act ...

11 shameful -- rank: 348

... scandalous, dishonorable, disreputable, infamous, outrageous, ignominious, opprobrious, base, vile, villanous, nefarious, heinous, atrocious, wicked, dark. 2. Indecent, unbecoming, degrading, scandalous. Moby ... knavish, lamentable, loathsome, lousy, low, mean, monstrous, mortifying, nasty, naughty, nefarious, noisome, not done, not the thing, notorious, obnoxious, odious, off ...

12 Atrocious -- rank: 348

... a. Infamous, villanous, flagitious, heinous, felonious, flagrant, outrageous, enormous, grievous, nefarious, diabolical, monstrous, infernal, hellish, horrible, black, very wicked, excessively cruel ... malignant, mangy, mean, measly, merciless, miserable, monstrous, murderous, nasty, naughty, nefarious, noisome, noncivilized, not done, not the thing, notorious, obnoxious, obscene ...

13 Evil -- rank: 348

... ill. 2. Wicked, sinful, vicious, corrupt, perverse, wrong, base, vile, nefarious, malicious, malign, bad. 3. Mischievous, hurtful, harmful, injurious, pernicious, destructive ... misery, misfeasance, misfortune, monstrous, moral delinquency, mortal sin, nasty, naughty, nefarious, nefariousness, nemesis, nonfeasance, not done, not the thing, noxious, obliquity ...

14 Enormous -- rank: 348

... prodigious, Cyclopean, Herculean, elephantine, very large. 3. Flagitious, atrocious, heinous, nefarious, outrageous, depraved, very wicked. Moby Thesaurus Atlantean, Brobdingnagian, Cyclopean, Gargantuan ... lousy, mammoth, massive, massy, mighty, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, nasty, nefarious, noisome, notorious, obnoxious, odious, offensive, out of bounds, out of ...

15 Heinous -- rank: 348

... Dictionary of English Synonyms a. Flagrant, flagitious, atrocious, infamous, villanous, nefarious, crying, very wicked, enormous, aggravated, excessive, monstrous. Moby Thesaurus abhorrent ... mean, measly, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, miserable, monstrous, nasty, naughty, nauseating, nefarious, noisome, notorious, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, odious, offensive, outrageous, paltry ...