Nefarious \Ne*fa"ri*ous\, a. [L. nefarius, fr. nefas crime,
wrong; ne not + fas divine law; akin to fari to speak. See
No, adv., and Fate.]
Wicked in the extreme; abominable; iniquitous; atrociously
villainous; execrable; detestably vile.
[1913 Webster]
Syn: Iniquitous; detestable; horrible; heinious; atrocious;
infamous; impious. See Iniquitous.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
nefarious
adj : extremely wicked; "nefarious schemes"; "a villainous plot";
"a villainous band of thieves" [syn: villainous]
WordNet (r) 2.0
125 Moby Thesaurus words for "nefarious":
abject, abominable, arrant, atrocious, awful, bad, base, beastly,
beggarly, beneath contempt, black, blamable, blameworthy, brutal,
cheesy, contemptible, corrupt, criminal, crummy, damnable, dark,
debased, degenerate, degraded, deplorable, depraved, despicable,
detestable, dire, dirty, disgraceful, disgusting, dreadful,
egregious, enormous, evil, execrable, fetid, filthy, flagitious,
flagrant, foul, fulsome, glaring, grave, grievous, gross, hateful,
heinous, horrible, horrid, improper, infamous, iniquitous, knavish,
lamentable, little, loathsome, lousy, low, low-down, lumpen, mangy,
mean, measly, miscreant, miserable, monstrous, nasty, naughty,
noisome, notorious, obnoxious, odious, offensive, outrageous,
paltry, peccant, perverse, petty, pitiable, pitiful, poky, poor,
putrid, rank, regrettable, reprehensible, reprobate, reptilian,
repulsive, rotten, sad, scabby, scandalous, schlock, scrubby,
scruffy, scummy, scurvy, shabby, shameful, shocking, shoddy,
sinful, small, sordid, squalid, terrible, too bad, unclean,
unforgivable, unmentionable, unpardonable, unspeakable, unworthy,
vicious, vile, villainous, wicked, woeful, worst, worthless,
wretched, wrong
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
villainous
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