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Flagitious

Disgracefully or shamefully criminal; grossly wicked; scandalous; shameful; -- said of acts, crimes, etc.

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Evil 84% connected

Having qualities tending to injury and mischief; having a nature or properties which tend to badness; mischievous; not good; worthless or deleterious…

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Evil 84% connected

Having qualities tending to injury and mischief; having a nature or properties which tend to badness; mischievous; not good; worthless or deleterious…

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Wicked 84% connected

Having a wick; -- used chiefly in composition; as, a two-wicked lamp.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Wicked 84% connected

Having a wick; -- used chiefly in composition; as, a two-wicked lamp.

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Atrocious 92% connected

Extremely heinous; full of enormous wickedness; as, atrocious quilt or deeds.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Grievous 92% connected

Causing grief or sorrow; painful; afflictive; hard to bear; offensive; harmful.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Heinous 92% connected

Hateful; hatefully bad; flagrant; odious; atrocious; giving great great offense; -- applied to deeds or to character.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Monstrous 92% connected

Marvelous; strange.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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