nefandous

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Definition of nefandous in English English dictionary

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

Etymology

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