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  • 91evil — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Immorality Nouns 1. (something evil) evil, ill, harm, hurt; mischief, nuisance; disadvantage, drawback; disaster, casualty, mishap, misfortune, calamity, catastrophe, tragedy, adversity; abomination,… …

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  • 92foul — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. dirty, soiled, disgusting; stormy, unpleasant; obscene, indecent; clogged, choked, entangled; unfair, underhand. See uncleanness, impurity, improbity. fall foul of II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Soiled] …

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  • 93terrible — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. terrifying, dreadful; awesome, appalling, frightful, horrible, shocking, fearful, alarming; informal, excessive. See fear. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Inspiring terror] Syn. terrifying, frightening,… …

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  • 94vile — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. base, debased, low, lowly, mean; repulsive, odious; foul, nasty; paltry; evil, villainous, corrupt, wicked, depraved. See badness, disrepute, unimportance. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. despicable,… …

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  • 95scandalous — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. disgraceful, infamous, disreputable, ignominious; see lewd 1 , shameful 2 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. disgraceful, shocking, sinful, atrocious, outrageous, wrong, criminal, infamous, improper, shameful, odious.… …

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  • 96Malevolence — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Malevolence >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 malevolence malevolence Sgm: N 1 bad intent bad intent bad intention Sgm: N 1 unkindness unkindness diskindness Sgm: N 1 ill nature ill nature ill will ill blood …

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  • 97Vice — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Vice >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 vice vice Sgm: N 1 evil doing evil doing evil courses Sgm: N 1 wrongdoing wrongdoing Sgm: N 1 wickedness wickedness viciousness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 iniquity …

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  • 98eye — [OE] In Old English times eye was ēage, which is related to a whole range of words for ‘eye’ in other European languages. Its immediate derivation is from prehistoric Germanic *augon, which was also the source of German auge, Dutch oog, Swedish… …

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  • 99ferocious — [17] Etymologically, ferocious means ‘wild eyed’. It comes from Latin ferox, which was originally a compound formed from ferus ‘fierce, wild’ (source of English feral [17]) and an element oc , ox meaning ‘looking, appearing’. This also appears in …

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  • 100appalling — adjective 1) an appalling crime Syn: shocking, horrific, horrifying, horrible, terrible, awful, dreadful, ghastly, hideous, horrendous, frightful, atrocious, abominable, abhorrent, outrageous, gruesome, grisly …

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