nefandous

comparative more nefandous · superlative most nefandous

1. archaicUnspeakable, appalling.

   It had only horror, because I knew unerringly the monstrous, nefandous analogy that had suggested it.

   1931, H.P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness

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   Also the Daemon belched forth most horrid and nefandous Blasphemies, exalting himself above the most High.

   1684, Increase Mather, An Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providences

   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.

   1999, Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon