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adjective
- unspeakable, appalling
- 1999: some combination of scrapie, long-term climatic change, 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
Etymology: From Latin nefandus, from ne- "not" + fandus gerundive of fari "speak".
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