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"
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"
Wrong Roget’s Thesaurus §923 N. wrong, what ought not to be, what should not be, # malum in se, unreasonableness,
grievance, shame, injustice,
tort, unfairness, iniquity, foul play,
partiality,
leaning,
bias, favor,
favoritism,
nepotism, party spirit,
partisanship,
bigotry, undueness, wrongdoing (vice) 945, unlawfulness, robbing peter to pay paul, the wolf and the lamb, vice, "a custom more honored in the breach than the observance"
V. be wrong, cry to heaven for vengeance, do wrong, be inequitable, favor, lean towards, encroach upon, impose upon, reap where one has not sown, give an inch and take an ell, give an inch and take an mile, rob peter to pay paul
Adj. wrong, wrongful, bad, too bad, unjust, unfair,
inequitable,
unequitable, unequal, partial,
one-sided, injurious,
tortious, objectionable, unreasonable, unallowable, unwarrantable,
unjustifiable, improper, unfit, unjustified,
illegal,
iniquitous, immoral, in the wrong, in the wrong box
Adv. wrongly
Phr. it will not do
Vice Roget’s Thesaurus §945 N. vice, evil-doing, evil courses,
wrongdoing, wickedness,
viciousness, iniquity,
peccability,
demerit, sin, adam|, old adam, offending adam, immorality, impropriety,
indecorum,
scandal,
laxity, looseness of morals, enphagy, dophagy, exophagy, want of principle, want of ballast,
obliquity,
backsliding,
infamy,
demoralization,
pravity,
depravity,
pollution, hardness of heart,
brutality, corruption,
knavery,
profligacy,
flagrancy,
atrocity,
cannibalism, lesbianism, sadism,
infirmity, weakness, weakness of the flesh,
frailty, imperfection, error, weak side,
foible, failing, failure, crying sin, besetting sin, defect,
deficiency, cloven foot, lowest dregs of vice, sink of iniquity, alsatian den, gusto picaresco, fault, crime,
criminality,
sinner,
brothel, gambling house, joint*, opium den, shooting gallery, crack house
V. be vicious, sin, commit sin, do amiss,
err,
transgress, misdemean oneself, forget oneself, misconduct oneself,
misdo,
misbehave, fall,
lapse, slip,
trip,
offend,
trespass, deviate from the line of duty, deviate from the path of virtue, take a wrong course, go astray, hug a sin, hug a fault, sow one's wild oats, render vicious,
demoralize,
brutalize, corrupt
Adj. vicious, sinful,
sinning, wicked,
iniquitous, immoral, unrighteous,
wrong, criminal,
naughty, incorrect,
unduteous,
undutiful, unprincipled, lawless, disorderly, contra bonos mores,
indecorous, unseemly, improper,
dissolute,
profligate,
scampish, unworthy, worthless, desertless, disgraceful,
recreant,
reprehensible,
blameworthy,
uncommendable, discreditable,
disreputable, sadistic, base,
sinister,
scurvy, foul, gross,
vile, black, grave, facinorous|,
felonious,
nefarious, shameful,
scandalous, infamous,
villainous, of a deep dye,
heinous,
flagrant,
flagitious,
atrocious,
incarnate,
accursed,
mephistophelian,
satanic,
diabolic,
hellish,
infernal,
stygian,
fiendlike, hell-born,
demoniacal,
devilish,
fiendish, miscreated,
misbegotten,
demoralized, corrupt,
depraved,
evil-minded, evil-disposed,
ill-conditioned,
malevolent, heartless, graceless, shameless, virtueless, abandoned, lost to virtue,
unconscionable, sunk in iniquity, lost in iniquity, steeped in iniquity,
incorrigible,
irreclaimable,
obdurate,
reprobate, past praying for,
culpable,
reprehensible,
unjustifiable,
indefensible,
inexcusable,
inexpiable,
unpardonable,
irremissible, weak,
frail,
lax, infirm, imperfect,
indiscrete,
demoralizing,
degrading Int. o tempora, o mores, phr, alitur vitium vivitque tegendo, genus est mortis male vivere, mala mens malus animus, nemo repente fuit turpissimus, "the trail of the serpent is over them all", "to sanction vice and hunt decorum down", [Note 1 - Most of these adjectives are applicable both to the act and to the agent.]
