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scelestic

scelestic adjective: evil; wicked; atrocious.

Adjective

scelestic (comparative more scelestic, superlative most scelestic)

  1. (obsolete, rare) evil; wicked; atrocious
    • scelestic villainies1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political

Forms of scelestic

comparativemore scelestic
superlativemost scelestic

Origin of scelestic

From Latin scelestus, from scelus (“wickedness”).

Questions about scelestic

What does scelestic mean?
Scelestic means evil; wicked; atrocious.
What part of speech is scelestic?
Scelestic is an adjective.

Words near scelestic in the dictionary

  1. scelerats
  2. scelerophobe
  3. scelerophobes
  4. scelerophobia
  5. scelerous
  6. scelestic
  7. scelet
  8. sceletal
  9. sceleton
  10. sceletons
  11. scelets

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