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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Nefarious \Ne*fa"ri*ous\, adjective [L. nefarius, fr. nefas crime, wrong; ne not + fas divine law; akin to fari to speak. See {No}, adverb, and {Fate}.] Wicked in the extreme; abominable; iniquitous; atrociously villainous; execrable; detestably vile.
Syn: Iniquitous; detestable; horrible; heinious; atrocious; infamous; impious. See {Iniquitous}. -- {Ne*fa"ri*ous*ly}, adverb -- {Ne*fa"ri*ous*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
nefarious
adjective: extremely wicked; "nefarious schemes"; "a villainous plot"; "a villainous band of thieves" [syn: {villainous}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
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