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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nefariousness |
| Synonyms: | foulness, frightfulness, horridness, monstrousness, odiousness, unpleasantness, wickedness |
| Antonyms: | pleasantness, righteousness |
| Concept: | Ugliness. |
| Category: | 2. Discriminative Affections |
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-nouns
ugliness; deformity, inelegance; acomia; disfigurement (blemish); want of symmetry, inconcinnity; distortion; squalor (uncleanness)., forbidding countenance, vinegar aspect, hanging look, wry face, "spretae injuria formae" [Vergil]., eyesore, object, figure, sight, fright, octopus, specter, scarecrow, hag, harridan, satyr, witch, toad, baboon, monster, Caliban, Aesop, "monstrum horrendum informe ingens cui lumen ademptum" [Vergil].
-verbs
be ugly; look ill, grin horribly a ghastly smile, make faces., render ugly; deface; disfigure, defigure; distort; blemish (injure); soil (render unclean).
-adjectives
ugly, ugly as sin, ugly as a toad, ugly as a scarecrow, ugly as a dead monkey; plain, bald (unadorned); homely ; ordinary, unornamental, inartistic; unsightly, unseemly, uncomely, unlovely; unshapely; sightless, seemless; not fit to be seen; unbeauteous, unbeautiful; beautiless; shapeless (amorphous)., misshapen, misproportioned; monstrous; gaunt (thin); dumpy (short); curtailed of its fair proportions; ill made, ill shaped, ill proportioned; crooked (distorted); hard featured, hard visaged; ill favored, hard favored, evil favored; ill looking; unprepossessing., graceless, inelegant; ungraceful, ungainly, uncouth, stiff; rugged, rough, gross, rude, awkward, clumsy, slouching, rickety; gawky; lumping, lumpish; lumbering; hulky, hulking; unwieldy., squalid, haggard; grim, grim faced, grim visaged; grisly, ghastly; ghost like, death like; cadaverous, grewsome., frightful, hideous, odious, uncanny, forbidding; repellant, repulsive; horrid, horrible; shocking (painful)., foul (dirty); dingy (colorless); gaudy (color); disfigured; discolored.
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| Antonyms: | beauty |
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