N. hurtfulness,
virulence, evil doer,
bane, plague spot, evil star, ill wind,
hoodoo,
jonah, snake in the grass, skeleton in the closet, amari aliquid, thorn in the side,
malignity,
malevolence, tender mercies, ill-treatment,
annoyance,
molestation,
abuse, oppression, persecution,
outrage, misusage, injury, knockout drops, badness,
peccancy,
abomination, painfulness,
pestilence, guilt,
depravity V. be hurtful, cause evil, produce evil, inflict evil, work evil, do evil,
damnify,
endamage,
hurt,
harm,
injure, pain, wrong,
aggrieve,
oppress,
persecute, trample upon, tread upon, bear hard upon, put upon, overburden, weigh down, weigh heavy on,
victimize, run down,
molest,
maltreat,
abuse, ill-use, ill-treat,
buffet,
bruise,
scratch,
maul,
smite, do violence, do harm, do a mischief,
stab,
pierce,
outrage, do mischief, make mischief, bring into trouble, destroy
Adj. 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, corrupting &c. (corrupt ),
virulent,
venomous,
envenomed,
corrosive, poisonous, deadly, destructive,
inauspicious, 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, injured &c. deteriorated, unsatisfactory, exceptionable, indifferent, below par, illcontrived,
ill-conditioned,
wretched,
sad,
grievous,
deplorable,
lamentable,
pitiful,
pitiable,
woeful, evil, wrong,
depraved,
shocking,
reprehensible,
hateful, hateful as a toad,
abominable,
detestable,
execrable,
cursed,
accursed, confounded,
damned,
damnable,
infernal,
diabolic,
unadvisable, unprofitable, incompetent,
irremediable Adv. badly, wrong, ill, to one's cost, where the shoe pinches
Phr. bad is the best, the worst come to the worst, herba mala presto cresco, "wrongs unredressed or insults unavenged"
N. malevolence, bad intent, bad intention, unkindness, diskindness, ill nature, ill will, ill blood, bad blood,
enmity,
hate,
malignity,
malice, malice prepense,
maliciousness, spite,
despite, resentment,
uncharitableness, incompassionateness, gall,
venom,
rancor,
rankling,
virulence,
mordacity, acerbity churlishness, hardness of heart, heart of stone,
obduracy, cruelty, cruelness,
brutality,
savagery,
ferity,
ferocity,
barbarity, inhumanity, immanity|,
truculence, ruffianism,
evil eye, cloven foot,
torture,
vivisection, ill turn, bad turn,
affront,
outrage,
atrocity, ill usage,
intolerance, persecution, tender mercies, "unkindest cut of all"
V. be malevolent, bear spleen, harbor spleen, bear a grudge, harbor a grudge, bear malice, betray the cloven foot, show the cloven foot,
hurt,
annoy,
injure,
harm, wrong, do harm to, do an ill office to,
outrage,
disoblige,
malign, plant a thorn in the breast,
molest,
worry,
harass,
haunt,
harry,
bait,
tease, throw stones at, play the devil with, hunt down,
dragoon,
hound,
persecute,
oppress,
grind,
maltreat,
illtreat, ill-use, wreak one's malice on, do one's worst, break a butterfly on the wheel, dip one's hands in blood, imbrue one's hands in blood, have no mercy
Adj. malevolent,
unbenevolent,
unbenign, ill-disposed, ill- intentioned,
ill-natured,
ill-conditioned, ill-contrived,
evil-minded, evil-disposed,
black-browed,
malicious,
malign,
malignant,
rancorous,
despiteful, spiteful,
mordacious,
caustic, bitter,
envenomed,
acrimonious,
virulent,
unamiable,
uncharitable,
maleficent,
venomous,
grinding, galling, harsh,
disobliging, unkind, unfriendly,
ungracious,
inofficious,
invidious,
uncandid,
churlish, surly,
sullen, cold,
cold-blooded,
cold-hearted,
black-hearted,
hard-hearted, flint- hearted, marble-hearted,
stony-hearted, hard of heart, unnatural,
ruthless, relentless, cruel,
brutal,
brutish, savage, savage as a bear, savage as a tiger,
ferine,
ferocious, inhuman, barbarous,
barbaric,
semibarbaric, fell,
untamed,
tameless,
truculent,
incendiary,
bloodthirsty,
atrocious, bloodyminded,
fiendish,
fiendlike,
demoniacal,
diabolic,
diabolical,
devilish,
infernal,
hellish,
satanic, tartaran
Phr. cruel as death, "hard unkindness' alter'd eye", homo homini lupus, mala mens, malus animus, "rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind", "sharp-tooth'd unkindness"
N. detraction,
disparagement,
depreciation,
vilification,
obloquy,
scurrility,
scandal,
defamation,
aspersion,
traducement,
slander,
calumny,
obtrectation, evil-speaking,
backbiting,
scandalum magnatum,
personality,
libel,
lampoon,
skit,
pasquinade, chronique scandaleuse,
roorback,
sarcasm,
cynicism, criticism (disapprobation) 932,
invective, envenomed tongue, spretae injuria formae,
personality,
libel,
lampoon,
skit,
pasquinade, chronique scandaleuse,
roorback,
detractor V. detract,
derogate,
decry,
deprecate,
depreciate,
disparage, run down, cry down, backcap,
belittle, sneer at, criticize, pull to pieces, pick a hole in one's coat,
asperse, cast aspersions, blow upon,
bespatter,
blacken,
vilify,
vilipend, avile|, give a dog a bad name,
brand,
malign, muckrake,
backbite,
libel,
lampoon,
traduce,
slander,
defame,
calumniate, bear false witness against, speak ill of behind one's back, fling dirt,
anathematize, dip the pen in gall, view in a bad light,
impugn,
assail, attack,
oppose,
denounce,
accuse Adj. detracting,
defamatory,
detractory,
derogatory,
deprecatory,
catty,
disparaging,
libelous,
scurrile,
scurrilous,
abusive,
foul-spoken, foul-tongued,
foul-mouthed,
slanderous,
calumnious,
calumniatory,
sarcastic,
sardonic,
sarcastic,
satirical,
cynical, critical
Phr. "damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer; and without sneering, teach the rest to sneer", another lie nailed to the counter, "cut men's throats with whisperings", "foul whisperings are abroad" "soft-buzzing slander", "virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes"
