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  • 121vicious — I adjective abandoned, acrimonious, atrocious, barbarous, beastly, blameworthy, brutal, censurable, contrary, corrupt, criminal, cruel, dangerous, debased, degenerate, demoralized, depraved, devilish, diabolical, disgraceful, evil, evil minded,… …

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  • 122crime — n. 1) to commit, perpetrate a crime 2) to deter; eradicate, stamp out, wipe out; prevent crime 3) an atrocious, brutal, heinous, horrible, infamous, outrageous, vicious crime 4) a daring; economic; major, serious; minor, petty; perfect;… …

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  • 123murder — n. homicide 1) to commit murder 2) a brutal, cold blooded, grisly, heinous, vicious, wanton; premeditated; ritual murder 3) (AE) (a) first degree; second degree murder 4) mass murder 5) multiple, serial murders ruinous influence (colloq.) 6)… …

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  • 124evil — 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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  • 125grievous — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. intense, sad; severe, flagrant, appalling, atrocious. See pain, badness. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Distressing] Syn. disquieting, upsetting, troublesome; see disturbing . 2. [Mournful] Syn. dismal …

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  • 126atrocious — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. abominable, monstrous, appalling; see cruel 1 , frightful 1 , outrageous . See Synonym Study at outrageous . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. evil, brutal, appalling, cruel, bad, monstrous, unspeakable, vicious,… …

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  • 127hate — [OE] There are indications that the ancestral meaning of hate may have been a neutral ‘strong feeling’ rather than the positive ‘dislike’. It has been traced to a prehistoric Indo European *kə des , amongst whose other descendants were Greek… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 128outrageous — adj 1. intolerable, insufferable, unbearable, unendurable, insupportable; impossible, enough, too much, all that one can stand; vexatious, exasperating, provoking, provocative, aggravating, maddening, disturbing, distressing; infuriating,… …

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