| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. A wicked act or wicked behavior: crime, deviltry, diablerie, evildoing, immorality, iniquity, misdeed, offense, peccancy, sin, wickedness, wrong, wrongdoing. See RIGHT. 2. A cause of suffering or harm: affliction, bane, curse, ill, plague, scourge, woe. See HELP. 3. That which is morally bad or objectionable: iniquity, peccancy, sin, wickedness, wrong. See RIGHT. 4. Whatever is destructive or harmful: bad, badness, ill. See HELP. | | ADJECTIVE: | 1. Bringing, predicting, or characterized by misfortune: bad, ill, inauspicious, unfavorable, unpropitious. See LUCK. 2. Morally objectionable: bad, black, immoral, iniquitous, peccant, reprobate, sinful, vicious, wicked, wrong. See RIGHT. 3. Causing harm or injury: bad, deleterious, detrimental, harmful, hurtful, ill, injurious, mischievous. See HELP. 4. Characterized by intense ill will or spite: black, despiteful, hateful, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mean2, nasty, poisonous, spiteful, venomous, vicious, wicked. Slang : bitchy. See ATTITUDE.
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