nefandous
English
WOTD – 27 May 2011
Adjective
nefandous (comparative more nefandous, superlative most nefandous)
- Unspeakable, appalling.
- 1684, Increase Mather, An Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providences:
- Also the Daemon belched forth most horrid and nefandous Blasphemies, exalting himself above the most High.
- 1931, H.P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness
- It had only horror, because I knew unerringly the monstrous, nefandous analogy that had suggested it.
- 1999, Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
- 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.
- 1684, Increase Mather, An Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providences:
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