Obscene vs Nefarious - What's the difference?
obscene | nefarious | Related terms |
Offensive to current standards of decency or morality
Lewd or lustful
Disgusting or repulsive
Beyond all reason
Liable to deprave or corrupt
Sinful, villainous, criminal, or wicked, especially when noteworthy or notorious for such characteristics.
* 1828 , , The Red Rover , ch. 2:
* 1877 , , The Life of Cicero , ch. 9:
* 1921 , , The Indiscretions of Archie , ch. 26:
* 2009 Oct. 14, Monica Davey, "
Obscene is a related term of nefarious.
As adjectives the difference between obscene and nefarious
is that obscene is obscene while nefarious is sinful, villainous, criminal, or wicked, especially when noteworthy or notorious for such characteristics.obscene
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* (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)Usage notes
* The comparative obscener and superlative obscenest, though formed by valid rules for English, are less common than more obscene' and ' most obscene .nefarious
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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.”