Etymology

scelestic

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Today it means: evil; wicked; atrocious Full definition →

Latin scelestus
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  1. Latin · derived fromscelestus
  2. English todayscelestic

From Latin scelestus, from scelus (“wickedness”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.