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  • 91evil — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Immorality Nouns 1. (something evil) evil, ill, harm, hurt; mischief, nuisance; disadvantage, drawback; disaster, casualty, mishap, misfortune, calamity, catastrophe, tragedy, adversity; abomination,… …

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  • 92harmless — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. innocent, innocuous, inoffensive. See innocence, safety, goodness. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [ Usually said of persons ] Syn. inoffensive, naive, simple; see kind 1 . 2. [ Usually said of things ]… …

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  • 93pernicious — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. malign, ruinous, poisonous, detrimental, injurious, harmful; wicked. See badness. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. harmful, deleterious, detrimental, noxious, baneful, damaging, prejudicial, ruinous,… …

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  • 94sore — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. painful, tender, sensitive; grieved, distressed; harsh, severe, intense, dire; slang, aggrieved, resentful, disgruntled. See pain, discontent, resentment. n. wound, abrasion, ulcer, chancroid, sore… …

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  • 95wrong — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) I adj. immoral (see wrong); mistaken, unfactual; unsuitable, improper. See error, disagreement. n. evil, harm, injury. See wrong, malevolence. II Deviation from moral right Nouns 1. wrong, wrongfulness …

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  • 96injurious — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Harmful] Syn. detrimental, damaging, deleterious; see dangerous 1 , 2 , deadly 1 , harmful , poisonous . 2. [Slanderous] Syn. abusive, insulting, libelous, defamatory; see insulting , opprobrious 1 . II (Roget s 3… …

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  • 97insulting — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. abusive, offensive, disparaging, derogatory, hurtful, debasing, degrading, affronting, outrageous, humiliating, scoffing, derisive, contemptuous, disrespectful, insolent, scurrilous, nasty, dyslogistic; see also… …

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  • 98Painfulness — (Roget s Thesaurus) >Capability of giving pain PARAG:Painfulness >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 painfulness painfulness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 trouble trouble care &c.(pain) 828 Sgm: N 1 trial trial Sgm: N 1 affliction affliction infliction …

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  • 99reduce to tears — ask hurtful questions until someone cries    The lawyer s hurtful questions soon reduced Karla to tears …

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  • 100bad — adj 1. virtueless, unrighteous, godless, impious, ungodly; immoral, amoral, nonmoral, unmoral, unprincipled, reprobate; corrupt, depraved, perverted, profligate, dissolute, libertine, abandoned, licentious; unscrupulous, dishonest, crooked,… …

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