English
Etymology
From Latin nefandus, from ne- ‘not’ + fandus gerundive of fari ‘speak’.
Pronunciation
IPA: /nɪ'fændəs/
Adjective
en-adj
- unspeakable, appalling
#:*1999: some combination of scrapie, long-term climatic change, nefandous conduct by jealous Outer Qwghlmians, and a worldwide shift in fashion away from funny-smelling thirty-pound sweaters with small arthropods living in them had driven them all into honest poverty and then not-so-honest poverty and led to their forcible transportation to Australia. — Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
vi:nefandous
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