Funest

//fjuːˈnɛst//

Synonyms for "funest" (20 found)

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I do assure you, there is nothing I have a greater scorn and indignation against, than these wretched scoffers; and I look upon our neglect of severely punishing them as an high defect in our politics, and a forerunner of something very funest.

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Scarce had this unhappy Nation recover'd these funest disasters, when the abomination of Play-houses rose up in this land: From hence hath an inundation of Obscenity flow'd from the Court and overspread the Kingdom.

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c. 1810-1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Jeremy Taylor …excepting only some Popes have be'en remarked by their own histories for funest and direful deaths.

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Funest philosophers and ponderers, Their evocations are the speech of clouds.

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