
In the past we have also looked at words that are frequently used in writing, and how to replace them. Those were:
Another word we use in writing, but which you can replace by others, is ‘bad’.
The words in the list below are not synonyms for the word ‘bad’, but simply other ways to say ‘bad’. Please check your dictionary to make sure he word you want to use in place of bad, says what you want it to say!
abhorrent | foul | obscene |
abject | galling | odious |
abominable | ghastly | offensive |
annoying | grievous | pejorative |
appaling | hateful | repellent |
atrocious | harmful | reprehensible |
awful | heinous | reprobate |
barbaric | hellish | repugnant |
base | hideous | repulsive |
beastly | horrendous | revolting |
brutal | horrible | rotten |
calamitous | horrid | ruinous |
contemptible | horrific | scandalous |
cursed | horrifying | shocking |
degenerate | icky | sickening |
deleterious | ignoble | sinful |
despicable | ignominious | sinister |
detestable | immoral | sordid |
detrimental | inclement | swinish |
diabolical | infamous | terrible |
dire | infernal | treacherous |
disagreeable | iniquitous | unpalatable |
disheartening | injurious | unpleasant |
disgusting | loathsome | unworthy |
dismaying | lousy | vexatious |
displeasing | malevolent | vicious |
distasteful | mischievous | vile |
disturbing | monstrous | villainous |
dreadful | nasty | wicked |
egregious | nauseating | woeful |
evil | nocuous | worthless |
execrable | noisome | wretched |
fiendish | noxious | |
flagrant | nefarious |
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