Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Atrociously wicked.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Atrociously wicked.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Extremely
wicked .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Vilely; with act impure stain'd the facinorous house.
Poems and Fragments 2006
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Vilely; with act impure stain'd the facinorous house.
Poems and Fragments 2006
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Vilely; with act impure stain'd the facinorous house.
The Poems and Fragments of Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus
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The body of Lucrece was brought into the market place, where the people wondred at the vilenesse of that facte, euery man complayning vppon the mischiefe of that facinorous rape, committed by Tarquinius.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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It might work for its greater popularity if I argued the other way, making out that the subjects I have chosen were monsters of brutality, with arms up to the shoulders in blood, that they were prodigies of iniquity and cunning, without bowels, steeped in hypocrisy, facinorous to a degree never surpassed or even equalled by evil men.
She Stands Accused 1935
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Nay, tis strange, tis very strange, that is the brief and the tedious of it; and he is of a most facinorous spirit, that will not acknowledge it to be the
reesetee commented on the word facinorous
Extremely wicked.
October 3, 2007
uselessness commented on the word facinorous
The slang of a future generation, no doubt. "Did you see that hovcar? Ride was fassin'!"
October 3, 2007
reesetee commented on the word facinorous
Future? Hell, let's use it now! ;-)
October 3, 2007
qms commented on the word facinorous
A nation thought noble and generous
Looks threatening now and sinistrous.
When governed by fear
It's bound to appear
No beacon of hope but facinorous.
September 22, 2017
RONNIELAW6917 commented on the word facinorous
Hate - "Haters attack the enlightened".
RonnieLaw 6917
September 22, 2017