badness

Roget-categorie 649

5. Words relating to the voluntary powers
› 5.2. Prospective volition
›› 5.2.2. Subservience to ends

#649. [Capability of producing evil. Bad qualities.] Badness

zelfstandig naamwoord

hurtfulness etc. adj. — virulence.
evil doer etc. 913 — bane etc. 663 — plague spot etc. (insalubrity) 657 — evil star, ill wind — hoodoo — Jonah — snake in the grass, skeleton in the closet — amari aliquid [Lat.], thorn in the side.
malignity — malevolence etc. 907 — tender mercies [Iron.].
ill-treatment, annoyance, molestation, abuse, oppression, persecution, outrage — misusage etc. 679 — injury etc. (damage) 659 — knockout drops [U.S.].
badness etc. adj. — peccancy^†, abomination — painfulness etc. 830 — pestilence etc. (disease) 655 — guilt etc. 947 — depravity etc. 945.

werkwoord

be hurtful etc. adj. — cause evil, produce evil, inflict evil, work evil, do evil etc. 619 — damnify^†, endamage^†, hurt, harm — injure etc. (damage) 659 — pain etc. 830.
wrong, aggrieve, oppress, persecute — trample upon, tread upon, bear hard upon, put upon — overburden — weigh down, weigh heavy on — victimize — run down — molest etc. 830.
maltreat, abuse — ill-use, ill-treat — buffet, bruise, scratch, maul — smite etc. (scourge) 972 — do violence, do harm, do a mischief — stab, pierce, outrage.
do mischief, make mischief — bring into trouble.
destroy etc. 162.

bijvoeglijk naamwoord

hurtful, harmful, scathful^†, baneful, baleful — injurious, deleterious, detrimental, noxious, pernicious, mischievous, full of mischief, mischief-making, malefic, malignant, nocuous, noisome — prejudicial — disserviceable^†, disadvantageous — wide-wasting.
unlucky, sinister — obnoxious — untoward, disastrous.
oppressive, burdensome, onerous — malign etc. (malevolent) 907.
corrupting etc. (corrupt) etc. 659 — virulent, venomous, envenomed, corrosive — poisonous etc. (morbific) 657^† — deadly etc. (killing) 361 — destructive etc. (destroying) 162 — inauspicious etc. 859.
bad, ill, arrant, as bad as bad can be, dreadful — horrid, horrible — dire — rank, peccant, foul, fulsome — rotten, rotten at the core.
vile, base, villainous — mean etc. (paltry) 643 — injured &c. — deteriorated etc. 659 — unsatisfactory, exceptionable indifferent — below par etc. (imperfect) 651 — illcontrived, ill-conditioned — wretched, sad, grievous, deplorable, lamentable — pitiful, pitiable, woeful etc. (painful) 830.
evil, wrong — depraved etc. 945 — shocking — reprehensible etc. (disapprove) 932.
hateful, hateful as a toad — abominable, detestable, execrable, cursed, accursed, confounded — damned, damnable — infernal — diabolic etc. (malevolent) 907.
unadvisable etc. (inexpedient) 647 — unprofitable etc. (useless) 645 — incompetent etc. (unskillful) 699 — irremediable etc. (hopeless) 859.

bijwoord

badly etc. adj. — wrong, ill — to one's cost — where the shoe pinches.

uitdrukking

bad is the best: the worst come to the worst — herba mala presto cresco [Lat.] — wrongs unredressed or insults unavenged" [Wordsworth].

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