Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.
Class V. Words Releasing to the Voluntary PowersDivision (I) Individual Volition
Section II. Prospective Volition
2. Degree of Subservience
649. [Capability of Producing Evil. Bad Qualities.] Badness.
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].
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].
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].