All dickens synonyms
dick·ens
D d adj dickens
- nocuous — likely to cause damage or injury; harmful; noxious.
- perilous — involving or full of grave risk or peril; hazardous; dangerous: a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat.
- pernicious — causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful: pernicious teachings; a pernicious lie.
- precarious — dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure: a precarious livelihood.
- puckish — mischievous; impish.
- rascal — a base, dishonest, or unscrupulous person.
- risky — attended with or involving risk; hazardous: a risky undertaking.
- sinful — characterized by, guilty of, or full of sin; wicked: a sinful life.
- spiteful — full of spite or malice; showing spite; malicious; malevolent; venomous: a spiteful child.
- sportive — playful or frolicsome; jesting, jocose, or merry: a sportive puppy.
- teasing — to irritate or provoke with persistent petty distractions, trifling raillery, or other annoyance, often in sport.
- tricky — given to or characterized by deceitful tricks; crafty; wily.
- troublesome — causing trouble, annoyance, or difficulty; vexatious: a troublesome situation; a troublesome person.
- vexatious — causing vexation; troublesome; annoying: a vexatious situation.
- vicious — addicted to or characterized by vice; grossly immoral; depraved; profligate: a vicious life.
- wayward — turned or turning away from what is right or proper; willful; disobedient: a wayward son; wayward behavior.
- ill-behaved — 1. [numerical analysis] Said of an algorithm or computational method that tends to blow up because of accumulated roundoff error or poor convergence properties. 2. Software that bypasses the defined operating system interfaces to do things (like screen, keyboard, and disk I/O) itself, often in a way that depends on the hardware of the machine it is running on or which is nonportable or incompatible with other pieces of software. In the IBM PC/mess-dos world, there is a folk theorem (nearly true) to the effect that (owing to gross inadequacies and performance penalties in the OS interface) all interesting applications are ill-behaved. See also bare metal. Opposite: well-behaved, compare PC-ism.
- misbehaving — to behave badly or improperly: The children misbehaved during our visit.
- rascally — being, characteristic of, or befitting a rascal.
- vexing — to irritate; annoy; provoke: His noisy neighbors often vexed him.
noun dickens
- juvenile delinquent — a minor who cannot be controlled by parental authority and commits antisocial or criminal acts, as vandalism or violence.
- prince of darkness — Satan.
- archfiend — a chief fiend
- diablo — Spanish for “devil.”.
- bete noire — If you refer to someone or something as your bete noire, you mean that you have a particular dislike for them or that they annoy you a great deal.
- child — A child is a human being who is not yet an adult.
- demon — A demon is an evil spirit.