nefandous

Englisch - Englisch

Definition von nefandous im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

Unspeakable, appalling

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.

{a} abominable, wicked

Unfit to speak of; unmentionable; impious; execrable

Etymologie

() From Latin nefandus, from ne- (“not”) + fandus, gerundive of fari (“to speak”)