As an attribute of moral qualities or of actions in which sinking or abasement is present. Of sin, crime, guilt (into which one may fall or sink)…

Very evil or wicked; iniquitous; foul, hateful.

Of an action or its result: excessively injurious or cruel; of the nature of a gross violation of justice, morality, decency, etc.; wicked, evil…

Hateful, odious; highly criminal or wicked; infamous, atrocious: chiefly characterizing offences, crimes, sins, and those who commit them.

Of persons: Guilty of or addicted to atrocious crimes; deeply criminal, extremely wicked.

Of persons or their actions: Transgressing the bounds of law, decency, or morality; outrageous, lawless, wrongful. Obsolete.

Highly offensive or loathsome, esp. morally; evil, abominable, foul. In later use: esp. (of language, behaviour, etc.) grossly coarse or indecent…

Of sins and crimes (rarely of persons): Abnormally wicked, monstrous, outrageous. Obsolete.

That causes wonder or amazement; marvellous, astonishing. Also in an unfavourable sense: appalling.

Shameful, atrocious, horrible. Obsolete.

Of a person: outrageous; behaving in a shocking or outrageous manner; very badly behaved.

Atrociously wicked. Obsolete.

Like or befitting a monster; inhumanly wicked or depraved; atrocious, horrible. In later use frequently hyperbolical.

Of persons or their actions: Extraordinarily wicked, outrageous, monstrous; = enormous, adj. 2.

Extremely wicked or immoral; grossly criminal; vile, atrocious, heinous; infamous.

= monstrous, adj. (in various senses).

Wicked, atrociously criminal. Cf. felon, adj., felonous, adj. Now chiefly poetic.

Of persons and their actions: Departing from the rule of right, disorderly. Of a state of things: Disordered, irregular. Hence, excessively…

= facinorous, adj.

Gross, heinous. Obsolete. rare.

figurative. Of an offence (after Isaiah i. 18), hence occasionally of an offender: Heinous, deep-dyed.

= facinorous, adj.

Characterized by savage enormity; excessively and wantonly cruel; heinously wicked. of persons or agents.

That violates justice, morality, or decency; that causes outrage. Also: †furious, raging; acting extravagantly or without self-restraint (obsolete).