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nefandous

Adjective CEFR B2
nɪˈfandəs

Definitions

Unspeakable, appalling.

archaic

Equivalents

Portuguêsnefando
Italianonefando
2 more languages

Examples

“Also the Daemon belched forth most horrid and nefandous Blasphemies, exalting himself above the most High.”
“It had only horror, because I knew unerringly the monstrous, nefandous analogy that had suggested it.”
“some combination of scrapie, long-term climatic change⟳, nefandous conduct by jealous Outer Qwghlmians, and a worldwide shift in fashion away from funny-smelling thirty-pound sweaters with small arthropods living in them had driven them all into honest poverty and then not-so-honest poverty and led to their forcible transportation to Australia.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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