currish

adjective

ˈkər-ish How to pronounce currish (audio)
Definition of currishnext
as in vile
not following or in accordance with standards of honor and decency apologized for his currish behavior

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for currish
  1. vile
  2. dirty
  3. nasty
  4. cruel
  5. immoral
  6. detestable
  7. vicious
  8. ignoble
Adjective
  • The dancing on the death of somebody was pretty vile.
    Miranda Kennedy, Vox, 10 Dec. 2024
  • The hour sits with him as his anxiety builds, causing some to sympathize with him despite his typical vile behavior.
    EW Staff, EW.com, 5 Dec. 2024
Definition of vile
Adjective
  • From savory breads and rolls for sandwiches and soup-sopping to decadent sweet loaves and rolls for breakfast or dessert, the easy recipes give you a break while your mixer does the dirty work.
    Josh Miller, Southern Living, 21 Dec. 2024
  • The Romans liked to give the appearance of civilized rule by getting local thugs to do their dirty work.
    N.T. Wright, TIME, 20 Dec. 2024
Definition of dirty
Adjective
  • At its simplest, while tracking cookies are a nasty underpin to the internet, they can be seen and controlled, whether by those website popups or electing to use some form of private browsing that blocks such cookies altogether.
    Zak Doffman, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
  • But the only bacteria raw or pasteurized milk contain are the nasty kind—salmonella, campylobacter and the like, according to the FDA.
    Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 20 Dec. 2024
Definition of nasty
Adjective
  • Some Rochester residents disagree and find their city’s methods excessively cruel to the birds.
    Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Dec. 2024
  • The gods prove cruel but not omnipotent, and the modern settings exert their own redemptive pull; the final effect is that of a magic trick, in which the characters manage, in each film’s miraculous closing moments, to slip the bonds of tragedy.
    Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2024
Definition of cruel
Adjective
  • That level of greed and inequality is not only immoral.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 1 Dec. 2024
  • Regulated sportsbooks find gambling on minors immoral in some respects, but you guys don’t.
    Jay Ginsbach, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
Definition of immoral
Adjective
  • What’s more, a loss at Hell in a Cell could also force McIntyre to become an even more detestable heel in the weeks and months ahead.
    Blake Oestriecher, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2024
  • As if being Jewish had become something really murky, vaguely suspect, possibly detestable.
    Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 7 Aug. 2024
Definition of detestable
Adjective
  • But the blaze was the latest manifestation of a vicious cycle in which flammable invasive grasses are choking out fire-resistant vegetation in the Santa Monica Mountains.
    Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2024
  • This can create a vicious cycle of one cold sore healing while another forms.
    Lauryn Higgins, Flow Space, 20 Dec. 2024
Definition of vicious
Adjective
  • Larraín’s third subject, Maria Callas, despite being born to an ignoble family and having to face wartime poverty during the 1940s, was no stranger to the trappings of an empyrean existence, but in constantly having to live up to it, like Diana, her life met an untimely end.
    Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 15 Dec. 2024
  • Anything can happen, but polling trends increasingly suggest that the presidency of Donald Trump, which has itself seemed like an eternity to many, may be heading to its ignoble end.
    Christopher R. Hill, Foreign Affairs, 19 June 2020
Definition of ignoble
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“Currish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/currish. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.

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