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"Wicked"2 answers
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Filled answer is this word (NEFARIOUS).
Definitions
Wicked, criminal, or extremely immoral.
Word origin
From Latin nefārius (“execrable, abominable”), from nefās (“something contrary to divine law, an impious deed, sin, crime”), from ne- (“not”) + fās (“the dictates of religion, divine law”), which is related to Latin for (“to speak, to say”) and cognate to Ancient Greek φημί (phēmí, “to say”).
Used in a sentence
“Aliens have a nefarious connotation in many science fiction books.”
“"If the vessel be no fair-trading slaver, nor a common cruiser of his Majesty, it is as tangible as the best man's reasoning, that she may be neither more nor less than the ship of that nefarious pirate the Red Rover."”
“Mommsen […]declares that Catiline in particular was "one of the most nefarious men in that nefarious age. His villanies belong to the criminal records, not to history."”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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