facinorous
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- adjective Atrociously wicked.
Examples
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Vilely; with act impure stain'd the facinorous house.
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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.
Note
The word 'facinorous' comes from a Latin word meaning 'bad deed'.
