Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Detestably vile; wicked; abominable.
Wiktionary
- adj. wicked
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. rare Wicked.
Etymologies
- From Latin nefastus ("irreligious, inaupicious") (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I beg your pardon, -- I account for yours, if you really take for truth and life monsters so nefast and flagitious.”
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