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| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
| Class V. Words Releasing to the Voluntary Powers |
| Division (I) Individual Volition |
| Section II. Prospective Volition |
| 2. Degree of Subservience |
| 649. [Capability of Producing Evil. Bad Qualities.] Badness. |
| NOUN: | HURTFULNESS &c. adj.; virulence. BANE [See Bane]; plague spot (insalubrity) [See Insalubrity]; evil star, ill wind; hoodoo [colloq.], jinx [slang], jadu [Hind.], Jonah; snake in the grass, skeleton in the closet; amari aliquid [L.]; thorn in the -side, - flesh. MALIGNITY, damnability, damnification, damnifying; malevolence [See Malevolence]; tender mercies [irony]. ILL-TREATMENT, annoyance, molestation, abuse, oppression, persecution, out-rage; misusage [See Misuse]; damnum [L.], scathe; injury (damage) [See Deterioration]; knock-out drops [U. S.]. BADNESS &c. adj.; peccancy, abomination; painfulness [See Painfulness]; pestilence (disease) [See Disease]; guilt [See Guilt]; depravity [See Vice]. BAD MAN [See Bad Man]; evildoer [See Evildoer]. |
| VERB: | BE HURTFUL &c. adj.; cause -, produce -, inflict -, work -, do- evil [See Evil]; damnify, endamage, hurt, harm, scathe; injure (damage) [See Deterioration]; pain [See Painfulness]. WRONG, aggrieve, oppress, persecute; trample -, tread -, bear hard -, put- upon; overburden; weigh -down, - heavy on; victimize; run down, run hard; thwart; molest [See Painfulness]. MALTREAT, abuse; ill-use, illtreat; buffet, bruise, scratch, maul; smite (scourge) [See Punishment]; do violence, do a mischief; stab, pierce, outrage. DO MISCHIEF, do harm, make mischief; bring -, lead -, get- into trouble; hoodoo [colloq., U. S.]. DESTROY [See Destruction]. |
| ADJECTIVE: | HURTFUL, harmful, scathful [obs. or dial.], scatheful, 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 (malevolent) [See Malevolence]. CORRUPTING &c. (corrupt [See Deterioration]); virulent, venomous, envenomed, corrosive; poisonous (morbific) [See Insalubrity]; deadly (killing) [See Killing]; destructive (destroying) [See Destruction]; inauspicious [See Hopelessness]. BAD, ill, arrant, as bad as bad can be, dreadful; horrid, horrible; dire; rank, peccant, foul, fulsome; rotten, rotten at the core. UNSATISFACTORY, indifferent; injured &c. deteriorated [See Deterioration]; exceptionable, below par (imperfect) [See Imperfection]; ill-contrived, ill-disposed, ill-conditioned. DEPLORABLE, wretched, sad, grievous, lamentable, pitiful, pitiable, woeful &c. (painful) [See Painfulness]; mean (paltry) [See Unimportance]. EVIL, wrong; depraved [See Vice]; shocking; reprehensible (disapproved) [See Disapprobation]. HATEFUL, - as a toad; abominable, vile, base, villainous, detestable, execrable, cursed, accursed, confounded; damned, damnable, damnatory, damnific [rare]; infernal; diabolic (malevolent) [See Malevolence]. INADVISABLE, unadvisable [rare] (inexpedient) [See Inexpedience]; unprofitable (useless) [See Inutility]; incompetent (unskillful) [See Unskillfulness]; irremediable (hopeless) [See Hopelessness]. |
| ADVERB: | BADLY &c. adj.; wrong, ill; to one’s cost; where the shoe pinches; with malignity &c. n. |
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