9
vicious(adjective, mean, bad, evil, nasty)
8
adverse(adjective, harmful, threatening, injurious, unfavorable)
8
disadvantageous(adjective, harmful, injurious, damaging, unfavorable)
8
dismal(adjective, sad, sorrow, depression, depress)
8
foreboding(adjective, black, warning, threatening, menacing)
8
ill-boding(adjective, awful, fear, black, horror)
8
minatory(adjective, critical, threatening, forbidding, denunciatory)
8
nasty(adjective, mean, evil, wicked, hostile)
8
noisome(adjective, bad, evil, harmful, injurious)
8
portentous(adjective, awful, fear, black, horror)
8
virulent(adjective, mean, bad, evil, nasty)
7
bodeful(adjective, awful, fear, black, horror)
7
calamitous(adjective, harmful, injurious, damaging, deadly)
7
creepy(adjective, awful, fear, black, horror)
7
dark(adjective, sad, sorrow, depression, woe)
7
direful(adjective, horrible, black, fearful, bodeful)
7
grave(adjective, sad, sorrow, depression, depress)
7
minacious(adjective, critical, forbidding, denunciatory)
7
mischievous(adjective, mean, evil, nasty, vicious)
7
prejudicial(adjective, bad, harmful, deadly, unfavorable)
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