4
terrible(adjective, evil, awful, horrible)
4
treacherous(adjective, harmful, injurious, malevolent, detrimental)
4
unpromising(evil, warning, danger, harmful, threatening)
4
unpropitious(evil, corrupt, immoral, sinful, menacing)
4
unsound(adjective, bad, offensive, foul, unhealthy)
4
untoward(adjective, evil, danger, harmful, unfavorable)
4
villainous(adjective, bad, evil, low, corrupt)
4
wasting(verb, action, destroy, evil, dead)
3
antagonistic(adjective, evil, opponent, malevolent)
3
bad to the bone
3
cataclysmic(adjective, grave, harmful, injurious, damaging)
3
contagious(adjective, evil, danger, harmful)
3
corroding(adjective, evil, danger, harmful, injurious)
3
crippling(adjective, evil, harmful, injurious, damaging)
3
distressing(adjective, evil, danger, harmful, damaging)
3
feral(adjective, evil, danger, harmful)
3
fiendish(adjective, evil, danger, harmful)
3
forbidding(adjective, evil, danger, harmful)
3
foreboding(suffer, dead, badly, threatening, menacing)
3
gloomy(evil, warning, harmful, threatening, unfavorable)
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