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, ill-conditioned; 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].