| Main Entry: | villainous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | criminal |
Synonyms: |
atrocious, bad, corrupt, crooked, cruel, culpable, deplorable, depraved, diabolical, dirty, evil, felonious, hateful, ignoble, illegal, illicit, immoral, iniquitous, knavish, lawless, low, mean, nefarious, peccant, reprehensible, scandalous, shady*, sinful, unlawful, vile, wicked |
| Main Entry: | atrocious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | outrageous; widely condemned |
Synonyms: |
awful, bad, barbaric, beastly, desperate, diabolical, fiendish, flagrant, godawful, grody, gross*, hairy*, heinous, lousy, monstrous, nefarious, rotten, scandalous, shocking, villainous, wicked |
| Main Entry: | bad |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | immoral |
Synonyms: |
base, corrupt, criminal, delinquent, evil, iniquitous, mean, reprobate, sinful, vicious, vile, villainous, wicked, wrong |
| Notes: | badly is an adverb to describe an activity; bad is an adjective to describe a condition or state |
Antonyms: |
good, honest, just, reputable, right, true, virtuous |
| Main Entry: | black |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | evil |
Synonyms: |
bad, diabolical, iniquitous, mean, nefarious, villainous, wicked |
Antonyms: |
good |
| Main Entry: | corrupt |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | debased, vicious |
Synonyms: |
abandoned, abased, baneful, boorish, degenerate, degraded, deleterious, depraved, dishonored, dissolute, evil, flagitious, infamous, loose, low, miscreant, monstrous, nefarious, perverse, profligate, rotten, villainous |
Antonyms: |
clean, decent, helpful, high, kind, noble, sound, wholesome |
| Main Entry: | criminal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lawless, felonious |
Synonyms: |
bent, caught, corrupt, crooked, culpable, deplorable, dirty, heavy, hung up, illegal, illegitimate, illicit, immoral, indictable, iniquitous, nefarious, off base, out of line, peccant, racket, scandalous, senseless, shady*, smoking gun, unlawful, unrighteous, vicious, villainous, wicked, wildcat, wrong |
Antonyms: |
correct, lawful, legal, moral, right, righteous |
| Main Entry: | cursed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | damned, doomed for bad ending |
Synonyms: |
accursed, bedeviled, blankety-blank, blasted, blessed, blighted, cast out, confounded, doggone, excommunicate, execrable, fey, foredoomed, hell fire, ill-fated, infernal, snakebit, star-crossed, unholy, unsanctified, villainous, voodooed |
Antonyms: |
blessed |
| Main Entry: | degenerate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | corrupt, deteriorated |
Synonyms: |
base, debased, debauched, decadent, decayed, degenerated, degraded, demeaned, depraved, dissolute, effete, failing, fallen, flatitious, immoral, infamous, low, mean, miscreant, nefarious, overripe, perverted, retrograde, retrogressive, rotten, sinking, unhealthy, vicious, villainous, vitiated, wicked, worsen |
Antonyms: |
moral, upright, virtuous |
| Main Entry: | depraved |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | corrupt, immoral |
Synonyms: |
abandoned, bad, base, debased, debauched, degenerate, degraded, dirty*, dirty-minded, dissolute, evil, fast*, filthy*, flagitous, gone to the dogs, kinky*, lascivious, lewd, licentious, low, mean, miscreant, nefarious, perverted, profligate, putrid, rotten, shameless, sinful, twisted, unhealthy, unnatural, vicious, vile, villainous, vitiate, vitiated, wanton, warped, wicked |
Antonyms: |
good, honorable, just, moral, noble, pure, uncorrupt, upright, virtuous |
| Main Entry: | devilish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wicked |
Synonyms: |
Mephistophelian, accursed, atrocious, bad, brutish, cloven-footed, cursed, damnable, demoniac, demonic, detestable, diabolic, diabolical, evil, execrable, fiendish, hellborn, hellish, infernal, inhuman, iniquitous, nefarious, satanic, serpentine, unhallowed, villainous |
Antonyms: |
angelic, godlike, good, moral |