Badness (Capability of producing evil Bad qualities)
Verbs
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be hurtful etc. adj.
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cause evil, produce evil, inflict evil, work evil, do evil etc. Evil
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damnify, endamage, hurt, harm
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injure etc. (damage) Deterioration
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pain etc. [Capability of giving pain; cause or source of pain] Painfulness. wrong, aggrieve, oppress, persecute
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trample upon, tread upon, bear hard upon, put upon
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overburden
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weigh down, weigh heavy on
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victimize
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run down
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molest etc. [Capability of giving pain; cause or source of pain] Painfulness. maltreat, abuse
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ill-use, ill-treat
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buffet, bruise, scratch, maul
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smite etc. (scourge) Punishment
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do violence, do harm, do a mischief
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stab, pierce, outrage. do mischief, make mischief
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bring into trouble. destroy etc. [Nonproduction.] Destruction.
Adjectives
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hurtful, harmful, scathful, baneful, baleful
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injurious, deleterious, detrimental, noxious, pernicious, mischievous, full of mischief, mischief-making, malefic, malignant, nocuous, noisome
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prejudicial
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disserviceable, disadvantageous
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wide-wasting. unlucky, sinister
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obnoxious
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untoward, disastrous. oppressive, burdensome, onerous
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malign etc. (malevolent) Malevolence. corrupting etc. (corrupt) etc. Deterioration
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virulent, venomous, envenomed, corrosive
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poisonous etc. (morbific) Insalubrity
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deadly etc. (killing) [Destruction of life; violent death.] Killing
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destructive etc. (destroying) [Nonproduction.] Destruction
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inauspicious etc. [Absence, want or loss of hope.] Hopelessness. bad, ill, arrant, as bad as bad can be, dreadful
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horrid, horrible
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dire
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rank, peccant, foul, fulsome
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rotten, rotten at the core. vile, base, villainous
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mean etc. (paltry) Unimportance
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injured etc.
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deteriorated etc. Deterioration
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unsatisfactory, exceptionable indifferent
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below par etc. (imperfect) Imperfection
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illcontrived, ill-conditioned
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wretched, sad, grievous, deplorable, lamentable
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pitiful, pitiable, woeful etc. (painful) [Capability of giving pain; cause or source of pain] Painfulness. evil, wrong
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depraved etc. Vice
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shocking
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reprehensible etc. (disapprove) Disapprobation. hateful, hateful as a toad
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abominable, detestable, execrable, cursed, accursed, confounded
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damned, damnable
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infernal
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diabolic etc. (malevolent) Malevolence. unadvisable etc. (inexpedient) Inexpedience
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unprofitable etc. (useless) Inutility
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incompetent etc. (unskillful) Unskillfulness
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irremediable etc. (hopeless) [Absence, want or loss of hope.] Hopelessness.
Adverbs
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badly etc. adj.
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wrong, ill
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to one's cost
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where the shoe pinches.
Phrases
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bad is the best: the worst come to the worst
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wrongs unredressed or insults unavenged" [Wordsworth].