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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bad-tempered |
| Synonyms: | catty, churlish, crabbed, crabby, cross, crotchety, cussed, dirty*, disagreeable, disobliging, dyspeptic, hot-tempered, ill-humored, irritable, malevolent, malicious, mean, nasty, ornery*, perverse, petulant, spiteful, sulky, sullen, surly, temperamental, tempersome, touchy, unfriendly, unkind, unpleasant |
| Antonyms: | friendly, good-natured, good-tempered, nice, pleasant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | impure |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not clean mentally, physically; mixed |
| Synonyms: | admixed, adulterated, alloyed, carnal, coarse, common, contaminated, corrupt, debased, defiled, desecrated, diluted, dirty, doctored, filthy, foul, gross*, grubby, immodest, immoral, indecent, infected, lewd, nasty, not pure, obscene, polluted, profaned, smutty, squalid, sullied, tainted, unchaste, unclean, unrefined, unwholesome, vile, vitiated, weighted, wicked |
| Antonyms: | chaste, clean, impeccable, pure, sterile |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | indecent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | obscene, vulgar; offensive |
| Synonyms: | X-rated, blue*, coarse, crude, dirty*, filthy, foul, foulmouthed, gross*, ill-bred, immodest, immoral, improper, impure, in bad taste, indecorous, indelicate, lewd, licentious, malodorous, off-color, outrageous, pornographic, raunchy*, raw, ridiculous, rough, salacious, scatological, shameless, shocking, smutty, tasteless, unbecoming, undecorous, unseemly, untoward, vile, wicked |
| Antonyms: | chaste, clean, decent, modest, pure, virtuous |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lamentable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | upsetting, miserable |
| Synonyms: | afflictive, awful, bad, calamitous, deplorable, dire, dirty, distressing, doleful, dolorous, god-awful, grievous, grim, heartbreaking, hurting, lousy, low, lugubrious, meager, mean, melancholy, mournful, pitiful, plaintive, poor, regretful, rotten, rueful, sad, sorrowful, stinking, tragic, unfavorable, unfortunate, unsatisfactory, woeful, wretched |
| Antonyms: | cheering, fortunate, good, lucky, satisfactory |
| Main Entry: | litter |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make a mess |
| Synonyms: | clutter, confuse, derange, dirty, disarrange, disarray, disorder, jumble, mess up, scatter, strew |
| Antonyms: | clean up, tidy |
| Main Entry: | lousy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very bad |
| Synonyms: | awful, base, contemptible, despicable, dirty, disliked, execrable, faulty, harmful, hateful, horrible, inferior, low, mean, miserable, no good, outrageous, poor, rotten, second-rate, shoddy, slovenly, terrible, unpopular, unwelcome, vicious, vile |
| Antonyms: | good, great, magnificent, wonderful |
| Main Entry: | malevolent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hateful |
| Synonyms: | bad-natured, baleful, catty, despiteful, dirty, evil, evil-minded, hellish, hostile, lousy, malicious, malign, malignant, murder, murderous, pernicious, poison, rancorous, rough, sinister, spiteful, tough, vengeful, vicious, vindictive, waspish, wicked |
| Notes: | while malevolent suggests deep and lasting dislike, malicious usually means petty and spiteful |
| Antonyms: | amiable, harmless, kind, liking, loving |
| Main Entry: | malign |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | slander, defame |
| Synonyms: | abuse, accuse, asperse, backbite, bad-mouth, befoul, besmirch, bespatter, blacken, calumniate, cast aspersion, curse, decry, defile, denigrate, depreciate, derogate, detract, dirty*, disparage, harm, injure, insult, misrepresent, mudsling, opprobriate, pollute, rap, revile, roast, run down, scandalize, slur, smear, soil, spatter, speak ill of, stain, sully, taint, take a swipe at, tarnish, tear down, traduce, vilify, villainize, vituperate |
| Antonyms: | praise, uphold |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mangy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | scruffy |
| Synonyms: | decrepit, dirty, impoverished, indigent, mean, moth-eaten, poor, ragtag, shabby, shoddy, sick, sleazy*, squalid, tattered |
| Antonyms: | kempt, neat |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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