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adjective
  1. Characterized by intense ill will or spite: black, despiteful, evil, hateful, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, nasty, poisonous, spiteful, venomous, vicious, wicked. Slang: bitchy. See attitude
  2. Having or proceeding from low moral standards: base 2, ignoble, low, low-down, sordid, squalid, vile. See right
  3. Ungenerously or pettily reluctant to spend money: cheap, close, close-fisted, costive, hard-fisted, miserly, niggard, niggardly, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, petty, pinching, stingy, tight, tightfisted. See give
  4. Of low or lower quality: common, inferior, low-grade, low-quality, mediocre, second-class, second-rate, shabby, substandard. See better
  5. Of little distinction: humble, lowly, simple. See plain
  6. Lacking high station or birth: baseborn, common, déclassé, declassed, humble, ignoble, lowly, plebeian, unwashed, vulgar. Archaic: base 2. See over
  7. Affected or tending to be affected with minor health problems: ailing, indisposed, low, off-color, rocky, sickly. Idiom: under the weather. See health
  8. So objectionable as to elicit despisal or deserve condemnation: abhorrent, abominable, antipathetic, contemptible, despicable, despisable, detestable, disgusting, filthy, foul, infamous, loathsome, lousy, low, nasty, nefarious, obnoxious, odious, repugnant, rotten, shabby, vile, wretched. See good
  9. Informal. Having or showing a bad temper: bad-tempered, cantankerous, crabbed, cranky, cross, disagreeable, fretful, grouchy, grumpy, ill-tempered, irascible, irritable, nasty, peevish, petulant, querulous, snappish, snappy, surly, testy, ugly, waspish. Informal: crabby. Idiom: out of sorts. See attitude
  10. Slang. Hard to treat, manage, or cope with: troublesome, wicked. Informal: pesky. See easy
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