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tremendous, prodigious, monstrous, thumping, mammoth, massive,<br />

Brobdingnagian: With that whopping Great Dane of yours in the<br />

kitchen there's no room to move about. 2 flagrant, outrageous,<br />

extravagant, terrible, awful: Jones tells such whopping lies I<br />

don't know when to believe him.<br />

23.4 wicked...<br />

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wicked adj. 1 evil, bad, immoral, amoral, unprincipled, sinful,<br />

impious, irreligious, blasphemous, profane, sacrilegious,<br />

ungodly, godless, diabolic(al), satanic, Mephistophelian,<br />

demonic, demoniac(al), hellish, infernal, accursed, damnable,<br />

fiendish, ghoulish: How wicked must one be to murder one's own<br />

child? She has done many wicked things, but this was the worst.<br />

2 depraved, dissolute, villainous, black-hearted, iniquitous,<br />

horrible, horrid, hideous, heinous, beastly, base, low, vile,<br />

debased, degenerate, perverse, perverted, corrupt, foul,<br />

offensive, abominable, disgraceful, shameful, dreadful, awful,<br />

gross, gruesome, grim, appalling, grisly, loathsome, lawless,<br />

unrepentant, unregenerate, incorrigible, criminal, felonious,<br />

rascally, knavish, terrible, egregious, execrable: The Deluge<br />

was regarded as divine vengeance on a wicked world. He was a<br />

wicked man, in league with the devil himself. 3 dirty,<br />

pornographic, filthy, erotic, obscene, lewd, offensive,<br />

indecent, prurient, smutty, rude, taboo, blue, coarse, bawdy,<br />

vulgar, salacious, licentious, nasty, X-rated, Colloq US<br />

raunchy: The townspeople took the wicked books and burnt them<br />

all. 4 vicious, beastly, savage, nasty, bad, violent, mean,<br />

cruel: Graham has a wicked temper. The boys were subjected to<br />

the most wicked treatment. 5 naughty, mischievous, impish, sly,<br />

devilish, rascally, roguish, scampish, puckish; vexatious,<br />

exasperating, annoying, irritating, irksome, trying, galling,<br />

bothersome: What trouble have those wicked children got<br />

themselves into now? It is wicked of you to make pig noises<br />

every time I mention Bertha. 6 foul, offensive, pernicious,<br />

baleful, mephitic, disgusting, revolting, sickening, repulsive,<br />

repellent, nauseous, repugnant, rotten, pestilential, noxious:<br />

That liniment the doctor prescribed has a wicked odour. 7<br />

expert, ingenious, superior, superb, superlative, outstanding,<br />

masterful, masterly, skilful, deft, adept: That chap Gough<br />

plays a wicked game of tennis.

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