Adjective: scelestic
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more scelestic |
| Superlative | most scelestic |
Sample Sentences
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scelestic villainies [1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political:]
Adjectives inflected like scelestic
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Latin scelestus, from scelus (“wickedness”). See: Latin Adjectives '
scelestus'.