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facinorous.

Extremely wicked.

10 characters4 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

adj/fəˈsɪnəɹəs/
  1. Extremely wicked.

    archaic · formal
    Tru. I would kill you, Sir, I would kill you, if you had. Mor. Why? you do more in this, Sir: it were a vengeance centuple, for all facinorous Acts, that could be nam'd, to do that you do.
Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Latin facinorōsus, from facinus (“deed, bad deed”), from faciō (“to make, to do”).

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