balefulness

• abomination
• anathema
• atrociousness
• atrocity
• bad
• badness
• cancer
• canker
• corruption
• darkness
• debauchery
• decay
• degeneracy
• depravedness
• depravity
• devilishness
• devilry
• deviltry
• diabolism
• enormity
• evil
• evildoing
• evilness
• fiendishness
• heinousness
• ill
• immorality
• indecency
• iniquitousness
• iniquity
• malefaction
• perversion
• pervertedness
• rot
• satanism
• scurrility
• scurrilousness
• sin
• sinfulness
• squalor
• taboo
• tabu
• vileness
• villainy
• wickedness
• wrong

• decency
• good
• goodness
• honesty
• integrity
• morality
• probity
• rectitude
• right
• righteousness
• uprightness
• virtue
• virtuousness

• The ancient forest was shrouded in an eerie balefulness, as if haunted by unseen spirits.
• His eyes gleamed with a malevolent balefulness as he plotted his revenge.
• The desolate landscape was imbued with a sense of balefulness, as if it had been forsaken by the gods.
• She could feel the weight of his balefulness bearing down on her, suffocating her with its intensity.
• The painting captured the stark balefulness of the abandoned asylum, sending shivers down the viewer's spine.

bad

• abhorrent
• abominable
• abominably
• abomination
• abysmal
• abysmally
• achy
• acrid
• acrimonious
• acute
• addled
• admirable
• adverse
• afflicted
• aggravating
• aggrieved
• agonized
• ailing
• airsick
• amiss
• anathema
• anguished
• annoying
• appalling
• arch
• atrocious
• atrociously
• atrociousness
• atrocity
• awe-inspiring
• awful
• awfully
• babyish
• badass
• badly
• badness
• baleful
• balefulness
• balky
• baneful
• banned
• bargain-basement
• barred
• base
• bastard
• beastly
• below par
• bilious
• bitchy
• bitter
• black
• blamable
• blameworthy
• bleak
• blemished
• blue
• broken
• brokenhearted
• brummagem
• brutal
• bum
• bush
• bush-league
• cancer
• canker
• careless
• carsick
• cast down
• catty
• caustic
• censurable
• challenged
• cheap
• cheapjack
• cheeky
• cheerless
• cheesy
• childish
• coarse
• comfortless
• common
• condemned
• conscience-stricken
• contagious
• contaminated
• contemptible
• contemptuous
• contrary
• contrite
• cool
• corroded
• corrupt
• corrupted
• corruption
• counterfeit
• crappy
• crestfallen
• criminal
• crippled
• critical
• cruddy
• cruel
• crumbled
• crumby
• crummy
• curdled
• cursed
• curst
• cussed
• cut-rate
• damaged
• damaging
• damnable
• damnably
• dangerous
• dark
• darkening
• darkness
• deadly
• debased
• debauched
• debauchery
• debilitated
• decay
• decayed
• decaying
• decomposed
• decomposing
• decrepit
• defaced
• defective
• defiant
• deficient
• deficiently
• defiled
• defiling
• degeneracy
• degenerate
• degenerated
• dejected
• deleterious
• delinquent
• deplorable
• deplorably
• depraved
• depravedness
• depravity
• deprecating
• depressed
• depressing
• derogatory
• desolate
• despairing
• despicable
• despiteful
• despondent
• destructive
• deteriorated
• detestable
• detestably
• detrimental
• devastating
• devilishness
• devilry
• deviltry
• devious
• diabolism
• difficult
• dirty
• disabled
• disadvantageous
• disagreeable
• disallowed
• disappointed
• disastrous
• disastrously
• disconsolate
• discouraged
• discouraging
• disdainful
• diseased
• disfigured
• disgraceful
• disgusting
• disheartened
• dishonest
• dishonorable
• disintegrated
• disintegrating
• dismal
• disobedient
• disobliging
• disordered
• disorderly
• disparaging
• dispirited
• displeasing
• disreputable
• disrespectful
• dissatisfactory
• dissolute
• distasteful
• distressed
• distressing
• dizzy
• doleful
• dolorous
• down
• down in the mouth
• downcast
• downhearted
• dreadful
• dreadfully
• drear
• dreary
• droopy
• egregious
• egregiously
• el cheapo
• elegiac
• elegiacal
• elfish
• enormity
• envious
• errant
• erring
• erroneous
• evil
• evil-minded
• evildoing
• evilness
• execrable
• execrably
• extreme
• fake
• fallen
• fallible
• fatal
• faulty
• feeble
• fermented
• feverish
• fiendishness
• fierce
• flagrant
• flagrantly
• flashy
• flawed
• forbidden
• forlorn
• foul
• fouled
• fragile
• frail
• from hunger
• froward
• funereal
• galling
• gangrenous
• garish
• gaudy
• ghastly
• gimcrack
• glitzy
• gloomy
• glum
• gnarly
• god-awful
• godawful
• grand
• grave
• gray
• grey
• grieving
• grim
• gross
• grossly
• guilty
• half-assed
• halt
• hangdog
• harmed
• harmful
• harsh
• hateful
• hazardous
• headstrong
• heartbroken
• heartsick
• heartsore
• heavyhearted
• heinousness
• hellish
• hideous
• hopeless
• horrendous
• horrendously
• horrible
• horribly
• horrid
• horrifically
• hostile
• hurt
• hurtful
• hypochondriac
• hypochondriacal
• icky
• ignoble
• ill
• ill-behaved
• ill-mannered
• ill-natured
• illegal
• immature
• immoral
• immorality
• impaired
• imperfect
• imperiling
• imperilling
• impish
• impolite
• imposing
• impressive
• improper
• impudent
• impure
• in pain
• inadequate
• inadequately
• inappropriately
• incapacitated
• incomplete
• inconsiderate
• inconsolable
• incorrect
• incorrectly
• indecency
• indecent
• indecently
• indecorous
• indifferent
• indisposed
• ineffective
• ineffectual
• infamous
• infantile
• infectious
• infective
• inferior
• inferiorly
• infernal
• infirm
• inimical
• iniquitous
• iniquitousness
• iniquity
• injured
• injurious
• inoperative
• insidious
• insolent
• insufficient
• insufficiently
• insurgent
• intense
• interdicted
• intimidating
• intolerably
• intractable
• invalid
• invidious
• irreverent
• irritating
• jaundiced
• jealous
• jejune
• jeopardizing
• joyless
• junky
• juvenile
• kiddish
• killer
• kitsch
• kitschy
• knavish
• lachrymose
• lacking
• lackluster
• lame
• lesser
• lethal
• libertine
• light-headed
• loathsome
• loose
• lousily
• lousy
• low
• low-grade
• low-minded
• low-rent
• low-spirited
• lugubrious
• malefaction
• malevolent
• malicious
• malign
• malignant
• marred
• meager
• meagerly
• meagre
• mean
• mean-spirited
• meanly
• mediocre
• melancholic
• melancholy
• menacing
• meretricious
• mighty
• mildewy
• misbehaving
• mischievous
• miscreant
• miserable
• miserably
• miserly
• moldering
• moldy
• monkeying
• monkeyish
• morbid
• morose
• mournful
• murky
• mutinous
• nasty
• naughtily
• naughty
• nauseated
• nauseating
• nauseous
• nefarious
• negative
• niggardly
• nocuous
• noisome
• nonbinding
• nonvalid
• noxious
• nugatory
• null
• null and void
• objectionable
• obnoxious
• obscene
• obstreperous
• odious
• odiously
• off
• offensive
• ominous
• on the blink
• opprobrious
• ornery
• ostentatious
• out of sorts
• outlawed
• painful
• paltry
• parlous
• pathetic
• peaked
• peaky
• perilous
• pernicious
• perverse
• perversion
• perverted
• pervertedness
• pestiferous
• pestilent
• pestilential
• phoney
• phony
• pixieish
• plaintive
• poisonous
• polluted
• poor
• poorly
• poxy
• prankish
• prejudicial
• prohibited
• proscribed
• puerile
• punk
• putrefied
• putrefying
• putrescent
• putrid
• qualmish
• queasy
• queazy
• rancid
• rancorous
• rank
• rascally
• rebellious
• recalcitrant
• refractory
• regretful
• remorseful
• repellant
• repellent
• reprehensible
• reprehensibly
• reprobate
• repugnant
• repulsive
• resentful
• restive
• revolting
• revulsive
• risky
• roguish
• rot
• rotten
• rottenly
• rotting
• rowdy
• rubbishy
• rude
• rueful
• ruffianly
• ruinous
• run-down
• sad
• saddened
• sassy
• satanism
• saturnine
• scandalous
• scantily
• scantly
• scanty
• scathing
• schlock
• schlocky
• scornful
• scoundrelly
• scrofulous
• scurrility
• scurrilous
• scurrilousness
• scurvy
• seamy
• seasick
• second-class
• second-rate
• seedy
• selfish
• serious
• severe
• shabbily
• shabby
• shaky
• sham
• shameful
• shlock
• shlocky
• shocking
• shoddily
• shoddy
• short
• showy
• sick
• sickened
• sickening
• sickish
• sickly
• sin
• sinful
• sinfulness
• sinister
• skimp
• skimpily
• skimpy
• sleazily
• sleazy
• slipshod
• sly
• snakelike
• snide
• snotty
• somber
• sombre
• sordid
• sorrowful
• sorry
• sour
• soured
• sourish
• spare
• sparely
• spiteful
• splashy
• spoiled
• squalor
• squeamish
• stingily
• stingy
• stinky
• suboptimal
• subpar
• substandard
• sucky
• suicidal
• sullen
• sunk
• supercheap
• swank
• swanky
• symptomatic
• taboo
• tabu
• tacky
• tainted
• tawdry
• tearful
• terrible
• terribly
• thoughtless
• threatening
• tough
• toxic
• transgressing
• trashily
• trashy
• troubled
• troublesome
• troubling
• trumpery
• turned
• ugly
• ultracheap
• unacceptable
• unacceptably
• unauthorized
• unbearably
• unbecoming
• unclean
• uncongenial
• uncontrollable
• uncouth
• under par
• under the weather
• uneasy
• unethical
• unfavorable
• unfortunate
• unfriendly
• ungodly
• ungovernable
• unhappy
• unhealthful
• unhealthy
• unholy
• unkind
• unkindly
• unlawful
• unlovely
• unloving
• unmannerly
• unpalatable
• unpleasant
• unpleasing
• unprincipled
• unquiet
• unrighteous
• unruly
• unsafe
• unsatisfactorily
• unsatisfactory
• unsavory
• unscrupulous
• unseemly
• unsound
• unspeakable
• unspeakably
• unsuitably
• untoward
• unwelcome
• unwell
• unwholesome
• upset
• upsetting
• useless
• valueless
• venomous
• vexatious
• vexing
• vicious
• vile
• vilely
• vileness
• villainous
• villainy
• vindictive
• virulent
• vitiated
• vitriolic
• void
• vulgar
• vulgarly
• wack
• waggish
• wailing
• wanting
• wayward
• weak
• weakly
• weeping
• wicked
• wickedness
• wild
• wilful
• willful
• woebegone
• woeful
• woozy
• worried
• worthless
• wretched
• wretchedly
• wrong
• wrongheaded
• yucky
• yukky

cancer

• C
• abomination
• anathema
• atrociousness
• atrocity
• bad
• badness
• balefulness
• bane
• big C
• canker
• carcinoma
• contagion
• corruption
• cyst
• darkness
• debauchery
• decay
• degeneracy
• depravedness
• depravity
• devilishness
• devilry
• deviltry
• diabolism
• disease
• enormity
• evil
• evildoing
• evilness
• excrescence
• excrescency
• fiendishness
• fungicide
• germicide
• growth
• heinousness
• herbicide
• ill
• immorality
• indecency
• iniquitousness
• iniquity
• insecticide
• long illness
• lump
• lymphoma
• malefaction
• malignancy
• melanoma
• microbicide
• neoplasm
• outgrowth
• perversion
• pervertedness
• pesticide
• poison
• polyp
• rot
• satanism
• scurrility
• scurrilousness
• sickness
• sin
• sinfulness
• squalor
• taboo
• tabu
• toxic
• toxicant
• toxin
• tubercle
• tumor
• venom
• vileness
• villainy
• virus
• wart
• wickedness
• wrong

canker

• Cancer
• abase
• abomination
• anathema
• animalize
• atrociousness
• atrocity
• bad
• badness
• balefulness
• bane
• bastardize
• befoul
• begrime
• bestialize
• blemish
• blight
• blister
• boil
• cancer
• cheapen
• consume
• contaminate
• corrode
• corrosion
• corrupt
• corruption
• damage
• darkness
• debase
• debauch
• debauchery
• decay
• deface
• defile
• degeneracy
• degrade
• demean
• demoralize
• deprave
• depravedness
• depravity
• depreciate
• descend
• destroy
• deteriorate
• devilishness
• devilry
• deviltry
• diabolism
• dilute
• dirty
• disgrace
• dishonor
• downgrade
• embitter
• enormity
• envenom
• evil
• evildoing
• evilness
• fiendishness
• flaw
• harm
• heinousness
• humble
• humiliate
• hurt
• ill
• immorality
• impair
• indecency
• inflict
• iniquitousness
• iniquity
• lesion
• lessen
• malefaction
• mar
• perversion
• pervert
• pervertedness
• poison
• pollute
• profane
• prostitute
• rot
• ruin
• satanism
• scourge
• scurrility
• scurrilousness
• shame
• sin
• sinfulness
• smutch
• sore
• spoil
• squalor
• stain
• subvert
• taboo
• tabu
• taint
• take down
• tarnish
• thin
• ulcer
• vileness
• villainy
• vitiate
• warp
• water down
• weaken
• wickedness
• wreck
• wrong

ill

• Cimmerian
• a wreck
• abominable
• abomination
• abuse
• abusively
• abysmal
• accident
• achy
• acrimonious
• adverse
• adversity
• affection
• afflicted
• affliction
• aggressively
• ail
• ailing
• ailment
• airsick
• anathema
• antagonistic
• assertively
• atrocious
• atrociousness
• atrocity
• attack
• awful
• bad
• badness
• baleful
• balefulness
• baneful
• bastard
• below par
• black
• bleak
• blow
• body blow
• bout
• brutal
• brutally
• brutishly
• bug
• bum
• bummed
• bush
• bush-league
• by no means
• calamity
• callously
• cancer
• canker
• cantankerous
• carsick
• casualty
• cataclysm
• catastrophe
• challenged
• cheerless
• cheesy
• chill
• circumstance
• cloudy
• coarse
• cold
• cold-bloodedly
• comfortless
• common
• complaint
• complication
• condition
• contagion
• contagious
• contagious disease
• contagium
• corruption
• counterfeit
• crappy
• cross
• cruddy
• cruelty
• crumby
• crummy
• curse
• cut-rate
• damage
• damaging
• damnable
• dangerous
• dark
• darkening
• darkness
• deadly
• debauchery
• debilitated
• debility
• decay
• decidedly
• decrepit
• decrepitude
• defeat
• defective
• deficient
• degeneracy
• deleterious
• deplorable
• depravedness
• depravity
• depressing
• depressive
• desolate
• destiny
• destruction
• destructive
• determinedly
• detestable
• detrimental
• devilishness
• devilry
• deviltry
• diabolism
• dim
• dire
• direful
• disabled
• disappointment
• disaster
• disastrous
• disconsolate
• discouraging
• disease
• diseased
• disheartening
• dismal
• disorder
• disordered
• disrespectful
• dissatisfactory
• distemper
• distemperature
• distress
• disturbing
• dizzy
• doom
• doomy
• down
• down with
• dreadful
• drear
• dreary
• dreich
• egregious
• elegiac
• elegiacal
• enormity
• epidemic
• evil
• evildoing
• evilness
• execrable
• failure
• fake
• fatal
• fate
• faulty
• feeble
• feebleness
• feeling awful
• feeling rotten
• feeling terrible
• fever
• feverish
• fiendishness
• firmly
• fit
• fizzle
• flagrant
• flawed
• foreboding
• forlorn
• foul
• fragile
• frail
• frailness
• from hunger
• funereal
• gloomy
• glum
• gnarly
• godforsaken
• got the bug
• gray
• green
• grey
• grimly
• gross
• gruffly
• halt
• hard
• hard-heartedly
• hardly
• hardship
• harm
• harmful
• harsh
• harshly
• hateful
• hazardous
• heartlessly
• heinousness
• hopeless
• horrendous
• horrible
• hostile
• hurt
• hurtful
• hypochondriac
• hypochondriacal
• ill-boding
• ill-fated
• ill-mannered
• ill-starred
• illness
• immorality
• imperiling
• imperilling
• impertinent
• inadequate
• inauspicious
• incapacitated
• indecency
• indisposed
• indisposition
• infection
• infectious
• infective
• inferior
• infirm
• infirmity
• inhumanely
• inhumanly
• inimical
• iniquitous
• iniquitousness
• iniquity
• injurious
• injury
• insensately
• insensitively
• insidious
• insufficient
• insult
• invalid
• jeopardizing
• junky
• killer
• knock
• lacking
• laid low
• lame
• lameness
• lesser
• letdown
• lethal
• light-headed
• lonely
• lonesome
• lot
• lousy
• low-grade
• low-rent
• lugubrious
• malady
• malaise
• malefaction
• malevolent
• malice
• malicious
• malign
• malignant
• matter
• meager
• meagre
• mean
• mediocre
• menacing
• mercilessly
• minatory
• misadventure
• mischance
• mischief
• mischievous
• miscreant
• miserable
• miserly
• misery
• misfortune
• mishap
• morbid
• morose
• murky
• nasty
• nauseated
• nauseous
• near
• never
• niggardly
• no
• no way
• nocent
• nocuous
• noisome
• none
• nonsuccess
• nothing
• nothing doing
• noway
• nowhere
• nowise
• noxious
• obdurately
• odious
• off
• ominous
• on no account
• on sick list
• oppressively
• out of sorts
• pain
• paltry
• parlous
• pathetic
• peaked
• peaky
• perilous
• pernicious
• perversion
• pervertedness
• pest
• pestiferous
• pestilence
• pestilent
• pestilential
• phoney
• phony
• pip
• pitilessly
• plague
• plutonian
• poisonous
• poor
• poorly
• portentous
• portion
• prejudicial
• punk
• qualmish
• queasy
• queazy
• queer
• queerish
• reprehensible
• resolutely
• risky
• rot
• rotten
• roughly
• rubbishy
• ruinous
• run down
• run-down
• running a temperature
• ruthlessly
• satanism
• saturnine
• savagely
• scanty
• scarcely
• scurrility
• scurrilous
• scurrilousness
• seasick
• second-rate
• seedy
• sepulchral
• setback
• severely
• shabby
• shaky
• sham
• shoddy
• short
• sick
• sick as a dog
• sickened
• sickish
• sickliness
• sickly
• sickness
• sin
• sinfulness
• sinister
• skimp
• skimpy
• sleazy
• somber
• sombre
• sorrow
• sour
• spare
• spell
• squalor
• squeamish
• star-crossed
• sternly
• stiffly
• stingy
• stinky
• strongly
• suboptimal
• subpar
• substandard
• sucky
• suffering
• sullen
• sunless
• surly
• symptomatic
• syndrome
• taboo
• tabu
• tenebrific
• tenebrous
• terrible
• threatening
• toughly
• tragedy
• trashy
• trial
• tribulation
• trouble
• troubled
• tyrannically
• unacceptable
• uncharitably
• under par
• under the weather
• unfavorable
• unfeelingly
• unfortunate
• unfriendly
• ungracious
• unhappiness
• unhealthful
• unhealthiness
• unhealthy
• unkind
• unlucky
• unmercifully
• unpleasantness
• unpromising
• unpropitious
• unsafe
• unsatisfactory
• unsettled
• unsound
• unsoundness
• unsparingly
• unspeakable
• unwell
• unwellness
• unwholesome
• upset
• useless
• valueless
• venomous
• viciously
• vile
• vileness
• villainous
• villainy
• wack
• wanting
• weak
• weakly
• weakness
• wicked
• wickedness
• woe
• woozy
• worthless
• wretched
• wrong

immorality

• abomination
• anathema
• antisocial behavior
• atrociousness
• atrocity
• bad
• badness
• balefulness
• baseness
• bestiality
• breach
• break
• cancer
• canker
• caper
• case
• corruption
• corruptness
• criminality
• darkness
• debasement
• debauchery
• decadence
• decay
• degeneracy
• degeneration
• degradation
• delict
• delictum
• delinquency
• depravedness
• depravity
• dereliction
• despicableness
• devilishness
• devilry
• deviltry
• diablerie
• diabolism
• dirtiness
• dissoluteness
• dissolution
• enormity
• evil
• evil behavior
• evildoing
• evilness
• fast one
• fault
• felony
• fiendishness
• flagitiousness
• heinousness
• hit
• ill
• illegality
• impurity
• indecency
• infamy
• infraction
• infringement
• iniquitousness
• iniquity
• job
• lasciviousness
• lawlessness
• lechery
• lewdness
• libertinage
• libertinism
• licentiousness
• looseness
• lousiness
• lowness
• lubricity
• malefaction
• malfeasance
• meanness
• misconduct
• misdeed
• misdemeanor
• miserableness
• mortal sin
• offense
• outrage
• peccancy
• perversion
• pervertedness
• profligacy
• racket
• reprehensibleness
• rot
• satanism
• scandal
• scurrility
• scurrilousness
• sin
• sinfulness
• sneak
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