Evil Roget’s Thesaurus §619 N. evil, ill,
harm,
hurt, mischief,
nuisance, # machinations of the devil, pandora's box, ills that flesh is heir to, blow,
buffet, stroke,
scratch,
bruise, wound,
gash,
mutilation, mortal blow, wound, immedicabile vulnus, damage, loss, disadvantage,
prejudice,
drawback,
disaster, accident,
casualty,
mishap, bad job, devil to pay,
calamity,
bale,
catastrophe, tragedy, ruin,
adversity, mental suffering, * demon &v, 980,
bane, badness,
painfulness, evil doer,
outrage, wrong, injury, foul play, bad turn, ill turn, disservice,
spoliation,
grievance, crying evil
V. be in trouble
Adv. amis, wrong, ill, to one's cost
Phr. "moving accidents by flood and field", section ii, prospective volition 1, conceptional volition
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"
Bane Roget’s Thesaurus §663 N. bane,
curse, evil,
hurtfulness,
painfulness,
scourge, damnosa hereditas, white elephant,
sting,
fang,
thorn,
tang,
bramble,
brier,
nettle, poison,
toxin, teratogen,
leaven, virus venom,
arsenic,
antimony, tartar emetic,
strychnine,
nicotine,
miasma,
miasm,
mephitis,
malaria,
azote, sewer gas,
pest, albany hemp, arsenious oxide, arsenious acid, bichloride of mercury, carbonic acid, carbonic gas,
choke damp, corrosive sublimate, fire damp, hydrocyanic acid,
cyanide,
prussic acid, hydrogen cyanide, marsh gas,
nux vomica,
ratsbane,
hemlock,
hellebore,
nightshade,
belladonna,
henbane,
aconite,
banewort,
bhang,
ganja,
hashish, upas tree, toxline,
rust, worm,
helminth,
moth, moth and rust,
fungus,
mildew,
dry rot,
canker,
cankerworm,
cancer,
torpedo,
viper,
demon,
toxicology Adj. baneful, poisonous, phr, bibere venenum in auro, 3. contingent subservience
N. painfulness, trouble, care, trial,
affliction,
infliction, blow, stroke, burden, load,
curse, bitter pill, bitter draught, waters of bitterness,
annoyance,
grievance,
nuisance,
vexation,
mortification, sickener, bore, bother,
pother, hot water, "sea of troubles", hornet's nest, plague,
pest,
cancer,
ulcer,
sting,
thorn,
canker,
scorpion,
dagger,
scourge, carking care, canker worm of care,
mishap, misfortune, desagrement, esclandre,
rub, source of irritation, source of annoyance, wound, open sore, sore subject, skeleton in the closet, thorn in the flesh, thorn in one's side, where the shoe pinches, gall and wormwood, sorry sight, heavy news,
provocation,
affront, "head and front of one's offending",
infestation,
molestation,
malignity V. cause pain, occasion pain, give pain, bring pain, induce pain, produce pain, create pain, inflict pain, pain,
hurt, wound,
pinch,
prick,
gripe,
pierce, lancinate, cut, hurt the feelings, wound the feelings, grate upon the feelings, grate upon the nerves, jar upon the feelings, wring the heart, pierce the heart, lacerate the heart, break the heart, rend the heart, make the heart bleed, tear the heart strings, rend the heart strings, draw tears from the eyes,
sadden, make unhappy, plunge into sorrow,
grieve,
fash,
afflict, distress, cut up, cut to the heart, displease,
annoy,
incommode,
discompose, trouble, disquiet,
faze,
feaze, feeze (u .s.),
disturb, cross,
perplex,
molest,
tease,
tire,
irk,
vex,
mortify, wherret|,
worry, plague, bother,
pester, bore,
pother,
harass,
harry,
badger,
heckle,
bait,
beset,
infest,
persecute,
importune,
wring,
harrow,
torment,
torture,
bullyrag, put to the rack, put to the question, break on the wheel,
rack,
scarify,
cruciate,
crucify,
convulse,
agonize, barb the dart, plant a dagger in the breast, plant a thorn in one's side,
irritate,
provoke,
sting,
nettle, try the patience,
pique,
fret,
rile, tweak the nose,
chafe, gall, sting to the quick, wound to the quick, cut to the quick,
aggrieve,
affront,
enchafe,
enrage,
ruffle, sour the temper, give offense,
maltreat,
bite, snap at,
assail,
smite,
sicken,
disgust, revolt,
nauseate,
disenchant,
repel,
offend,
shock, stink in the nostrils, go against the stomach, turn the stomach, make one sick, set the teeth on edge, go against the grain, grate on the ear, stick in one's throat, stick in one's gizzard,
rankle,
gnaw,
corrode,
horrify, appal,
appall, freeze the blood, make the flesh creep, make the hair stand on end, make the blood curdle, make the blood run cold, make one shudder, haunt the memory, weigh on the heart, prey on the heart, weigh on the mind, prey on the mind, weigh on the spirits, prey on the spirits, bring one's gray hairs with sorrow to the grave, add a nail to one's coffin
Adj. causing pain,
hurting,
hurtful, painful,
dolorific,
dolorous, unpleasant, unpleasing, displeasing, disagreeable,
unpalatable, bitter, distasteful, uninviting,
unwelcome, undesirable, undesired,
obnoxious, unacceptable, unpopular,
thankless, unsatisfactory, untoward,
unlucky, uncomfortable, distressing,
afflicting,
afflictive, joyless,
cheerless, comfortless,
dismal,
disheartening,
depressing,
depressive,
dreary,
melancholy,
grievous,
piteous,
woeful,
rueful,
mournful,
deplorable,
pitiable,
lamentable,
sad, affecting, touching,
pathetic,
irritating,
provoking,
stinging,
annoying,
aggravating,
mortifying, galling,
unaccommodating,
invidious,
vexatious,
troublesome,
tiresome,
irksome,
wearisome, plaguing,
plaguy,
awkward,
importunate,
teasing,
pestering,
bothering,
harassing,
worrying,
tormenting,
carking,
intolerable, insufferable, insupportable, unbearable, unendurable, past bearing, not to be borne, not to be endured, more than flesh and blood can bear, enough to drive one mad, enough to provoke a saint, enough to make a parson swear, enough to gag a maggot,
shocking,
terrific,
grim,
appalling,
crushing,
dreadful, fearful,
frightful,
thrilling,
tremendous,
dire,
heart-breaking,
heart-rending,
heart-wounding,
heart-corroding, heart-sickening,
harrowing,
rending,
odious,
hateful,
execrable,
repulsive,
repellent,
abhorrent,
horrid,
horrible,
horrific,
horrifying, offensive,
nauseous,
nauseating,
disgusting,
sickening, revolting,
nasty,
loathsome,
loathful,
fulsome,
vile,
hideous, sharp, acute,
sore, severe, grave, hard, harsh, cruel,
biting,
caustic, cutting,
corroding,
consuming,
racking,
excruciating, searching,
grinding,
grating,
agonizing,
envenomed,
catheretic,
pyrotic,
ruinous, disastrous,
calamitous,
tragical,
desolating,
withering,
burdensome,
onerous,
oppressive,
cumbrous,
cumbersome Adv. painfully, with pain,
deuced Int. hinc illae lachrymae, phr, surgit amari aliquid, the place being too hot to hold one, the iron entering into the soul, "he jests at scars that never felt a wound", "i must be cruel only to be kind", "what deep wounds ever closed without a scar?"