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Absent

Abeyant

Abominable

Abroad

Abysmal

Afar

Afield

Amiss

Apart

Arrested

Aside

Askew

Asleep

Astray

At rest

Atrocious

Away

Awful

Awry

Bad

Below par

Brutal

Burn

Bush

Bush league

Cancelled

Carry off

Cheesy

Claim

Coarse

Comatose

Common

Counterfactual

Counterfeit

Crappy

Croak

Crummy

Cutdown

Curate

Damnable

Dad

Deceitful

Deceptive

Deficient

Delusive

Delusory

Deplorable

Destroy

Detestable

Dishonest

Dissatisfactory

Distorted

Do away with

Dormant

Dreadful

Dull

Egregious

Eliminate

Elsewhere

Eradicate

Erroneous

Execrable

Fake

Fallow

False

Faulty

Fell

Fictitious

Finished

Flawed

Foul

Frail

Fragile

Fraudulent

Free

Fro

Get

Gnarly

Hench

Horrendous

Horrible

Idle

Illusory

Inaccurate

Inactive

In adequate

Inert

Inexact

Incorrect

Indelicate

Inferior

Inoperable

Inoperative

Insufficient

Interrupted

Invalid

Junk

Knock off

Lacking

Lame

Latent

Lesser

Lifeless

Liquidate

Little

Lousy

Low grade

Low rent

Marginal

Mean

Meagre

Mediocre

Mendacious

Miscreant

Minimal

Minor

Miserable

Miserly

Misleading

Moribund

Negligible

Neutralise

Niggardly

Not employed

Not a duty

odious

Off base

On the shelf

On vacation

Out

Out of commission

Outside

Paltry

Pathetic

Phony

Poor

Put away

Quiescent

Remote

Reprehensible

Rotten

Rubbishy

Rub out

Scanty

Second rate

Shabby

Shoddy

Skimpy

Sleepy

Slender

Slight

Slim

Slow

Small

Smit

Sour

Spare

Specious

Spurious

Stingy

Stinky

Suboptimal

Subpar

Substandard

Sucky

Suspend

Terminate

Tiny

Trashy

Trumped up

Unacceptable

Underpar

Unpredictable

Unsatisfactory

Unsound

Unusable

Unused

Unworkable

Useless

Vacant

Valueless

Vile

Villainous

Worthless

Wrong

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