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means(adjective) gruesomely indicative of death or the dead; "a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones"; "ghastly shrieks"; "the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs"
sepulchral, ghastly, charnel
means(adjective) unequivocally detestable; "abominable treatment of prisoners"; "detestable vices"; "execrable crimes"; "consequences odious to those you govern"- Edmund Burke
execrable, odious, abominable, detestable
means(adjective) causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse"
awful, dreadful, direful, horrific, dread, terrible, horrendous, dreaded, fearsome, frightening, dire, fearful
means(adjective) characterized by malice; "a hateful thing to do"; "in a mean mood"
hateful, mean
means(adjective) intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality; "severe pain"; "a severe case of flu"; "a terrible cough"; "under wicked fire from the enemy's guns"; "a wicked cough"
wicked, terrible, severe
means(adjective) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust; "a disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me"; "revolting food"; "a wicked stench"
loathsome, revolting, repellent, wicked, disgusting, distasteful, foul, repellant, skanky, yucky, disgustful, repelling, loathly
means(adjective) causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"
dreary, drear, grim, disconsolate, blue, dark, dingy, drab, sorry, dismal, gloomy
means(adjective) morally offensive; "an unsavory reputation"; "an unsavory scandal"
unsavory, offensive, unsavoury
means(adjective) offensive to the mind; "an abhorrent deed"; "the obscene massacre at Wounded Knee"; "morally repugnant customs"; "repulsive behavior"; "the most repulsive character in recent novels"
repugnant, repulsive, detestable, abhorrent, obscene
means(adjective) grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror; "subjected to outrageous cruelty"; "a hideous pattern of injustice"; "horrific conditions in the mining industry"
outrageous, hideous, horrid, horrific
means(adjective) extremely wicked, deeply criminal; "a flagitious crime"; "heinous accusations"
flagitious, heinous
means(adverb) in a terrible manner; "she sings terribly"
atrociously, terribly, abysmally, rottenly, awfully, abominably
means(adverb) in an offensive and hateful manner; "I don't know anyone who could have behaved so abominably"
abominably, odiously, repulsively, detestably

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