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nocent
adjective as in damaging
Strongest matches
adjective as in deleterious
adjective as in ill
Strong matches
Weak matches
- acrimonious
- adverse
- antagonistic
- cantankerous
- damaging
- deleterious
- detrimental
- disrespectful
- disturbing
- harmful
- harsh
- hateful
- hurtful
- ill-mannered
- impertinent
- inauspicious
- inimical
- iniquitous
- injurious
- malevolent
- malicious
- nocuous
- noxious
- ominous
- ruinous
- sinister
- sullen
- surly
- threatening
- unfavorable
- unfriendly
- ungracious
- unhealthy
- unkind
- unlucky
- unpromising
- unpropitious
- unwholesome
- vile
- wicked
adjective as in injurious
Example Sentences
Light stripes may suffice for quelling the less nocent dunces.
"It will clearly appear," he said, "where the guilt will lie if innocent persons should come to suffer with the nocent."
He divides his treatise into "bad and nocent books; bad books but not nocent; books not bad, but nocent; books neither bad nor nocent."
The judges, who were Englishmen, declared in their first session that 168 were innocent to 19 nocent.
All plants, phanerogams or cryptogams, can be divided into nocent or innocent, etc., etc.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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