heinous, flagitious, atrocious

Michael S.
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  1. heinous
    extremely wicked or deeply criminal
  2. flagitious
    extremely wicked, deeply criminal
  3. atrocious
    shockingly brutal or cruel
  4. grievous
    causing or marked by grief or anguish
  5. monstrous
    distorted and unnatural in shape or size
  6. leniency
    a disposition to yield to the wishes of someone
  7. indulgence
    the act of gratifying a desire
  8. lenient
    inclined to be permissive or indulgent
  9. detriment
    a damage or loss
  10. vested
    fixed and absolute and without contingency
  11. perfunctory
    hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough
  12. pro forma
    in a set manner without serious attention
  13. skew
    turn or place at an angle
  14. oblique
    slanting or inclined in direction or course or position
  15. disparate
    fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind
  16. disparity
    inequality or difference in some respect
Created on Mon Jun 29 14:16:51 EDT 2009 (updated Mon Jun 29 15:20:33 EDT 2009)

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