ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

in good condition, in fair condition; fresh; sound &c (perfect) 650.
Adv. beneficially &c adj.; well &c 618.
Phr. Jewels five words long [Tennyson]; long may such goodness live! [Rogers]; the
luxury of doing good [Goldsmith].
649. [Capability of producing evil. Bad qualities.] Badness -- N. hurtfulness &c adj.;
virulence.
evil doer &c 913; bane &c 663; plague spot &c (insalubrity) 657; evil star, ill wind;
hoodoo; Jonah; snake in the grass, skeleton in the closet; amari aliquid [Lat.], thorn in the
side.
malignity; malevolence &c 907; tender mercies [Iron.].
ill-treatment, annoyance, molestation, abuse, oppression, persecution, outrage;
misusage &c 679; injury &c (damage) 659; knockout drops [U.S.].
badness &c adj.; peccancy † , abomination; painfulness &c 830; pestilence &c (disease)
655; guilt &c 947; depravity &c 945.
V. be hurtful &c adj.; cause evil, produce evil, inflict evil, work evil, do evil &c 619;
damnify † , endamage † , hurt, harm; injure &c (damage) 659; pain &c 830.
wrong, aggrieve, oppress, persecute; trample upon, tread upon, bear hard upon, put
upon; overburden; weigh down, weigh heavy on; victimize; run down; molest &c 830.
maltreat, abuse; ill-use, ill-treat; buffet, bruise, scratch, maul; smite &c (scourge) 972;
do violence, do harm, do a mischief; stab, pierce, outrage.
do mischief, make mischief; bring into trouble.
destroy &c 162.
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 &c (malevolent) 907.
corrupting &c (corrupt) &c 659; virulent, venomous, envenomed, corrosive;
poisonous &c (morbific) 657 [Obs.]; deadly &c (killing) 361; destructive &c (destroying)
162; inauspicious &c 859.
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 &c (paltry) 643; injured &c; deteriorated &c 659;
unsatisfactory, exceptionable indifferent; below par &c (imperfect) 651; illcontrived, illconditioned;
wretched, sad, grievous, deplorable, lamentable; pitiful, pitiable, woeful &c
(painful) 830.
evil, wrong; depraved &c 945; shocking; reprehensible &c (disapprove) 932.
hateful, hateful as a toad; abominable, detestable, execrable, cursed, accursed,
confounded; damned, damnable; infernal; diabolic &c (malevolent) 907.
unadvisable &c (inexpedient) 647; unprofitable &c (useless) 645; incompetent &c
(unskillful) 699; irremediable &c (hopeless) 859.
Adv. badly &c adj.; 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 [Lat.]; wrongs
unredressed or insults unavenged [Wordsworth].