A personal dictionary of the times: I wanted to be more specific in my reactions to current events.
Aberrant - not normal, varying from the usual, bizarre, deviant
Abhorrent - that which inspires disgust and loathing; repugnant
Abnormal - not average, deviating from a standard, extreme or excessive
Abominable - repugnantly hateful; detestable; loathsome
Absurd - utterly or obviously senseless; illogical; contrary to all reason or common sense
Abuse - treat badly or injuriously; mistreat; use wrongly; rape or sexually assault
Abysmal - extremely or hopelessly bad or severe
Adverse - unfavorable or antagonistic in purpose or effect; being or acting in a contrary direction; opposing one's interests or desires
Aggravate - to make worse or more severe; to intensify anything evil, disorderly or troublesome
Aggressive - characterized by unprovoked offensives, attacks, invasions, or the like; menacing; spreading where not wanted
Alienate - to make hostile; to turn away or divert
Anarchy: a state of society without government or law; political and social disorder due to the absence of governmental control; lack of obedience to an authority; insubordination; confusion and disorder
Annoy - disturb; bother; harass; harm; molest
Antagonistic - acting in opposition; hostile; unfriendly
Antagonize - to make hostile or unfriendly; to make an enemy of; to act in opposition to
Anti - against; opposite of; opposed
Antithesis - direct opposite; parts set in opposition or contrast
Appalling - causing dismay or horror
Archenemy - antagonist; adversary; foe; nemesis; opponent; devil
Arrogant - making claims or pretensions to superiority; overbearing; insolent
Asinine - unintelligent; senseless; moronic; witless; crass
Ass - a stupid or foolish person
Atrocious - extremely wicked, cruel or brutal; shockingly bad or tasteless; dreadful; abominable
Authoritarian - of or relating to a governmental or political system, principle, or practice in which individual freedom is held as completely subordinate to the power or authority of the state, centered either in one person or a small group that is not constitutionally accountable to the people.
Autocrat - a person invested with or claiming to exercise absolute authority not subject to restrictions.
Avaricious - characterized by greed; rapacious; desiring to possess more of something than one already has or might in normal circumstances be entitled to
Awful - extremely bad; unpleasant; ugly: inspiring fear; dreadful; terrible: extremely dangerous or injurious
Bad: not good in any manner or degree; having a wicked or evil character; morally reprehensible; inadequate; not satisfactory; injurious; having a disastrous or detrimental effect; causing or characterized by discomfort; disagreeable; unpleasant; irritable or surly; more dangerous than usual; causing or resulting in disaster or severe damage or destruction; disobedient; disreputable; dishonorable; displaying a lack of skill or judgement; causing distress; unfavorable; dangerous; nor keeping with standard of behavior or conduct; obscene; having the character of a villain
Base: morally low; without estimable personal qualities; dishonorable; meanspirited; selfish; cowardly; worthless; characteristic of or befitting an inferior person or thing
Beholden: under obligation; owing a debt; bound
Bellicose: inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile
Belligerent: aggressively hostile; given to waging war; of warlike character; bellicose
Besmirch: to soil or tarnish; to detract from the honor of
Betrayal: the act of exposing or delivering someone to an enemy through treachery or disloyalty; failure to keep or honor a promise, principle, cherished memory, etc.; violation of an existing trust causing serious harm
Bigot: a person who is intolerant or hateful toward people whose race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, etc., is different from the person's own
Bigoted: utterly intolerant of any creed, belief, or opinion that differs from one's own
Bizarre: markedly unusual in appearance, style, or general character and often involving incongruous or unexpected elements; outrageously or whimsically strange; odd
Blasphemy: irreverent behavior toward anything held sacred, priceless, etc.; profanity; impious utterance or action concerning sacred things
Blatant: brazenly obvious; flagrant; offensively noisy or loud; clamorous; tastelessly conspicuous
Blathering: foolish empty talk
Blitzkrieg: an overwhelming all-out attack; intensive bombing; swift vigorous barrage
Bloviate: to talk at length, especially in an inflated or empty way; to speak a lot in an annoying manner as if you are important
Boast: to speak with exaggeration and excessive pride, especially about oneself: to use vain, exaggerated or objectionable speech; brag
Boorish: unmannered; crude; insensitive
Bozo: a rude, obnoxious, or annoying person
Brazen: shameless; insolent
Brutal: cruel; savage; coarse; barbaric; brutish; beastly; vicious; monstrous
Brute: a brutal, insensitive, or crude person
Buffoon: a foolish undignified coarse person; a boor
Cacophony: dissonance; harsh or unpleasant mixture of sounds; meaningless noise
Cad: an ill-bred man, especially one who behaves in a dishonorable or irresponsible way toward women
Calamitous: causing great misfortune or serious injury; grievous affliction; disastrous; ruinous; devastating; catastrophic
Calumny: a false or malicious statement designed to injure the reputation of someone or something; defamation; slander
Cancer: any evil condition or thing that spreads destructively
Carnage: great damage; utter defeat, or chaos; the slaughter of a great number of people; massacre
Catastrophe: a sudden and widespread disaster; misfortune, mishap or failure; fiasco; cataclysm
Chaos: a state of utter confusion or disorder; a total lack of organization or order
Chauvinist: a person who believes one gender is superior to the other, as a male chauvinist or a female chauvinist; a person who is aggressively and blindly patriotic, especially one devoted to military glory
Cheat: defraud; swindle; deceive; influence by fraud; deprive of something expected
Churlish: boorish; rude; stingy; mean; difficult to work with
Clueless: ignorant, unaware, or uninformed
Coarse: of inferior or faulty quality; common; base; vulgar; obscene; crude
Collateral Damage: injury inflicted on something other than an intended target; unintended negative consequences; any damage incidental to an activity
Combative: ready or inclined to fight; pugnacious
Complicit: choosing to be involved in an illegal or questionable act, especially with others; associated with an unethical activity
Conceited: having an excessively favorable opinion of one's abilities, appearance, etc.; egotistical; narcissistic; vainglorious
Conflict: discord of action, feeling, or effect; antagonism or opposition, as of interests or principles: incompatibility or interference, as of one idea, desire, event, or activity with another: prolonged struggle; strife.
Conniving: cooperating secretly, especially with harmful or evil intent; conspiring
Conspiracy: an unlawful, harmful, or evil plan formulated in secret by two or more persons; sedition; collusion
Contemptible: deserving of strong distaste; despicable; anything regarded as mean, vile, or worthless; disdained; that which is scorned; the state of being despised; held in dishonor; disgraced
Contumacious: stubbornly perverse or rebellious; willfully and obstinately disobedient
Corrupt (adjective): guilty of dishonest practices such as bribery; lacking integrity; crooked; debased in character; rotten
Corrupt (verb): destroy the integrity of; cause to be dishonest, disloyal, etc. especially by bribery; to lower morally; to alter for the worse; pervert; debase; taint; defile
Coup: a sudden and decisive action in politics, especially one resulting in a change of government illegally or by force; overthrow
Criminal: actions or instances of negligence that are deemed injurious to the public welfare or morals or to the interests of the state and that are legally prohibited; unlawful; felonious; any offense, serious wrongdoing, or sin; foolish, senseless, or shameful acts
Crisis: a condition of instability or danger in social, economic, political or international affairs; a dramatic upheaval; turning point; a moment at which the trend for all future events is determined
Cruel: willfully or knowingly causing pain or distress to others; enjoying the pain or distress of others
Damage: injury or harm that reduces value, usefulness, or normal function
Debacle: a general breakup or dispersion; sudden downfall or rout
Deceit: the act or practice of deceiving; concealment or distortion of the truth for the purpose of misleading; duplicity; fraud; cheating; falseness
Defile: to make foul, dirty or unclean; pollute; taint; debase; to make impure; desecrate
Degenerate: to fall below a normal level in physical, mental or moral qualities; to deteriorate, especially from a former state of coherence, balance, integrity, etc.
Degrade: to lower in dignity or estimation; bring into contempt; dishonor; to lower in character and quality; debase
Deliberate: something done consciously; intentional
Demented: crazy; insane; mad
DEMOCRACY: government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system; a state of society characterized by formal equality of rights and privileges; the common people of a community as distinguished from any privileged class; the common people with respect to their political power.
Denounce: to condemn or censure openly or publicly; to announce or proclaim, especially something evil or calamitous
Deplorable: causing or being a subject for censure, reproach, or disapproval; wretched; very bad
Depraved: corrupt, wicked, or perverted
Desecration: the act of treating something sacred or solemn in a sacrilegious or disrespectful way; the act of ruining or violating something revered or greatly valued
Despair: complete absence of hope; feeling that one is unable to improve a difficult or worrying situation; hopelessness
"DESPAIR IS AN INDULGENCE THAT WE CANNOT AFFORD
IN THE TIMES UPON WHICH HISTORY TURNS."
J. B. Pritzker
Desperate: having little or no hope; very serious or dangerous; urgently reckless
Despicable: deserving to be despised; regarded with distaste, disgust, or disdain; contemptible; vile
Despise: detest; regard with contempt, distaste, disgust, or disdain; scorn; loathe
Despot: a king or other ruler with absolute, unlimited power; autocrat; any tyrant or oppressor
Destroy: injure beyond repair or renewal; demolish; ruin
Deteriorate: to make or become worse or inferior in condition, character, quality, value, etc.
Detestable: deserving to be detested; abominable; hateful; vile; ocious; loathsome; abhorrent; execrable
Detrimental: causing loss or injury; damaging; harmful
Devastate: to overwhelm; to lay waste; render desolate; ruin; destroy
Deviant: a person or thing that departs markedly from the accepted norm
Diabolical: having the qualities of a devil; fiendish; outrageously wicked
Dictator: a person exercising absolute power, especially a ruler who assumes unrestricted control in a government without hereditary succession
Dire: causing or involving great fear or suffering; dreadful; terrible; indicating trouble, disaster, misfortune or the like; urgent; desperate
Dirty: vile; mean; sordid; contemptible; obtained through illegal or disreputable means
Disastrous: causing great distress or injury; ruinous; very unfortunate; calamitous
Discrimination: treatment or consideration of, or making a distinction in favor of or against, a person or thing based on the group, class, or category to which that person or thing belongs rather than on individual merit.
Disdain: to look upon or treat with contempt; despise; scorn; spurn; contemn
Disease: any harmful, depraved, or morbid condition, as of the mind or society
Disgraceful: shameful; dishonorable; disreputable
Disgusting: offensive to physical, moral, or aesthetic taste; detestable; abhorrent; repugnant; revolting; repulsive; nauseating; sickening; loathsome
Dishonest: disposed to lie, cheat or steal; not worthy of trust or belief; perfidious; deceitful; unscrupulous; fraudulent
Dishonor: to deprive of honor; disgrace; bring reproach or shame on; cause ignominy
Dismal: characterized by ineptness or lack of skill, competence, effectiveness, imagination or interest; pitiful; abysmal
Disorderly: contrary to public order or morality; unruly; turbulent; tumultuous
Disreputable: having a bad reputation; dishonorable; shameful; unprincipled; disgraceful
Disrespectful: characterized by, having or showing disrespect; lacking courtesy or esteem; rude; impolite
Distasteful: unpleasant; offensive; repulsive; repugnant; disagreeable
Divisive: creating dissension or discord
Dreadful: extremely bad, unpleasant, or ugly
Dystopia: a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding
Egregious: extraordinary in some bad way; flagrant; shocking; outrageous
Embarrass: to cause confusion and shame
Enemy: a person who feels hatred for, fosters harmful designs against, or engages in antagonistic activities against another; an adversary or opponent; something harmful or prejudicial
Entelechy: a realization or actuality as opposed to a potentiality
Entropy: a state of disorder, or a tendency toward such a state; a doctrine of inevitable social decline and degeneration; chaos
Excessive: going beyond the usual, necessary or proper limit or degree; unreasonable; exorbitant; inordinate; immoderate
Excrement: waste matter discharged from the body, especially feces
Execrable: utterly detestable; abominable; abhorrent; extremely bad
Exorbitant: exceeding the bounds of custom, propriety, or reason; highly excessive
Expendable: capable of being sacrificed in order to accomplish an objective
Exploit: to use selfishly for one's own ends
Extreme: exceeding the bounds of moderation; going to the utmost lengths; fanatical; excessive; immoderate
Evil: morally wrong or bad; wicked; nefarious; vile; corrupt; depraved; iniquitous
Factious: dissentious; mutinous; divisive
Failure: nonperformance of something due, required, or expected
Fake: something specious, deceptive, or fraudulent; counterfeit; charlatan; imposter; cheat
False: not loyal or faithful; treacherous; traitorous; perfidious
Farce: ridiculous sham; mockery; foolish display; travesty
Fascist: a person who is dictatorial or has extreme right-wing views7
Feckless: ineffective; incompetent
Felony: an offense, as murder or burglary, of graver character than those called misdemeanors, especially those commonly punished in the U.S. by imprisonment for more than a year
Fetid: having an offensive odor; stinking; noisome
Fiasco: a complete and ignominious failure; debacle; disaster; catastrophe
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