Excessive vs Nefarious - What's the difference?
excessive | nefarious | Related terms |
Exceeding the usual bounds of something; extravagant; immoderate.
Sinful, villainous, criminal, or wicked, especially when noteworthy or notorious for such characteristics.
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* 1921 , , The Indiscretions of Archie , ch. 26:
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As adjectives the difference between excessive and nefarious
is that excessive is exceeding the usual bounds of something; extravagant; immoderate while nefarious is sinful, villainous, criminal, or wicked, especially when noteworthy or notorious for such characteristics.excessive
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Adjective
(en adjective)- "I personally consider putting a wide vibrato on a single 16th triplet note at 160 beats per minute rather excessive , nay even stupid."
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* See alsoAntonyms
* insufficient * deficientDerived terms
* excessive numbernefarious
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Adjective
(en adjective)- "If the vessel be no fair-trading slaver, nor a common cruiser of his Majesty, it is as tangible as the best man's reasoning, that she may be neither more nor less than the ship of that nefarious pirate the Red Rover."
- Mommsen . . . declares that Catiline in particular was "one of the most nefarious' men in that ' nefarious age. His villanies belong to the criminal records, not to history."
- The fact that the room was still in darkness made it obvious that something nefarious was afoot. Plainly there was dirty work in preparation at the cross-roads.
Fact Checker Finds Falsehoods in Remarks," New York Times (retrieved 12 May 2014):
- “I try to let everyone back here in Minnesota know exactly the nefarious activities that are taking place in Washington.”