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Word Meanings - FACINOROUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Atrociously wicked. Jer. Taylor. -- Fa*cin"o*rous*ness, n.

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  • OUTRAGEOUS
    Of the nature of an outrage; exceeding the limits of right, reason, or decency; involving or doing an outrage; furious; violent; atrocious. "Outrageous weeping." Chaucer. "The most outrageous villainies." Sir P. Sidney. "The vile, outrageous
  • AGGRAVATING
    1. Making worse or more heinous; as, aggravating circumstances. 2. Exasperating; provoking; irritating. A thing at once ridiculous and aggravating. J. Ingelow.
  • SCANDALOUSLY
    1. In a manner to give offense; shamefully. His discourse at table was scandalously unbecoming the digmity of his station. Swift. 2. With a disposition to impute immorality or wrong. Shun their fault, who, scandalously nice, Will needs mistake
  • FLAGRANT
    1. Flaming; inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent. The beadle's lash still flagrant on their back. Prior. A young man yet flagrant from the lash of the executioner or the beadle. De Quincey. Flagrant desires and affections. Hooker. 2. Actually in
  • FACINOROUS
    Atrociously wicked. Jer. Taylor. -- Fa*cin"o*rous*ness, n.
  • CRUEL
    1. Disposed to give pain to others; willing or pleased to hurt, torment, or afflict; destitute of sympathetic kindness and pity; savage; inhuman; hard-hearted; merciless. Behold a people cometh from the north country; . . . they are cruel and have
  • ENORMOUSLY
    In an enormous degree.
  • WICKER
    1. A small pliant twig or osier; a rod for making basketwork and the like; a withe. 2. Wickerwork; a piece of wickerwork, esp. a basket. Then quick did dress His half milk up for cheese, and in a press Of wicker pressed it. Chapman. 3. Same as
  • ENORMOUS
    1. Exceeding the usual rule, norm, or measure; out of due proportion; inordinate; abnormal. "Enormous bliss." Milton. "This enormous state." Shak. "The hoop's enormous size." Jenyns. Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait. Milton.
  • WICKEDLY
    In a wicked manner; in a manner, or with motives and designs, contrary to the divine law or the law of morality; viciously; corruptly; immorally. I have sinned, and I have done wickedly. 2 Sam. xxiv. 17.
  • MONSTROUS
    1. Marvelous; strange. 2. Having the qualities of a monster; deviating greatly from the natural form or character; abnormal; as, a monstrous birth. Locke. He, therefore, that refuses to do good to them whom he is bound to love ... is unnatural
  • HEINOUS
    Hateful; hatefully bad; flagrant; odious; atrocious; giving great great offense; -- applied to deeds or to character. It were most heinous and accursed sacrilege. Hooker. How heinous had the fact been, how deserving Contempt! Milton. Syn.
  • VILLAINOUS
    1. Base; vile; mean; depraved; as, a villainous person or wretch. 2. Proceeding from, or showing, extreme depravity; suited to a villain; as, a villainous action. 3. Sorry; mean; mischievous; -- in a familiar sense. "A villainous trick of thine
  • CRUELS
    Glandular scrofulous swellings in the neck.
  • ENORMOUSNESS
    The state of being enormous.
  • NEFARIOUS
    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, adv. -- Ne*fa"ri*ous*ness, n.
  • FLAGRANTLY
    In a flagrant manner.
  • AGGRAVATION
    1. The act of aggravating, or making worse; -- used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences. 2. Exaggerated
  • CRUELLY
    1. In a cruel manner. 2. Extremly; very. Spectator.
  • WICK; WICH
    A narrow port or passage in the rink or course, flanked by the stones of previous players. (more info) of places, perhaps fr. Icel. vik an inlet, creek, bay. See Vicinity, 1. A street; a village; a castle; a dwelling; a place of work, or exercise
  • BRUNSWICK GREEN
    An oxychloride of copper, used as a green pigment; also, a carbonate of copper similarly employed.
  • BAILIWICK
    The precincts within which a bailiff has jurisdiction; the limits of a bailiff's authority.
  • BRUNSWICK BLACK
    See BLACK
  • WICKED
    Having a wick; -- used chiefly in composition; as, a two-wicked lamp.

 

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