Roget's Thesaurus

#649. Badness

Nouns

hurtfulness etc. adj.; virulence. evil doer etc. 913; bane etc. 663; plague spot etc. (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 etc. 907; tender mercies [Iron.]. ill-treatment, annoyance, molestation, abuse, oppression, persecution, outrage; misusage etc. 679; injury etc. (damage) 659; knockout drops [U.S.]. badness etc. adj.; peccancy, abomination; painfulness etc. 830; pestilence etc. (disease) 655; guilt etc. 947; depravity etc. 945.

Verbs

be hurtful etc. adj.; cause evil, produce evil, inflict evil, work evil, do evil etc. 619; damnify, endamage, hurt, harm; injure etc. (damage) 659; pain etc. 830. wrong, aggrieve, oppress, persecute; trample upon, tread upon, bear hard upon, put upon; overburden; weigh down, weigh heavy on; victimize; run down; molest etc. 830. maltreat, abuse; ill-use, ill-treat; buffet, bruise, scratch, maul; smite etc. (scourge) 972; do violence, do harm, do a mischief; stab, pierce, outrage. do mischief, make mischief; bring into trouble. destroy etc. 162.

Adjectives

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 etc. (malevolent) 907. corrupting etc. (corrupt) etc. 659; virulent, venomous, envenomed, corrosive; poisonous etc. (morbific) 657; deadly etc. (killing) 361; destructive etc. (destroying) 162; inauspicious etc. 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 etc. (paltry) 643; injured etc.; deteriorated etc. 659; unsatisfactory, exceptionable indifferent; below par etc. (imperfect) 651; ill-contrived, ill-conditioned; wretched, sad, grievous, deplorable, lamentable; pitiful, pitiable, woeful etc. (painful) 830. evil, wrong; depraved etc. 945; shocking; reprehensible etc. (disapprove) 932. hateful, hateful as a toad; abominable, detestable, execrable, cursed, accursed, confounded; damned, damnable; infernal; diabolic etc. (malevolent) 907. unadvisable etc. (inexpedient) 647; unprofitable etc. (useless) 645; incompetent etc. (unskillful) 699; irremediable etc. (hopeless) 859.

Adverbs

badly etc. adj.; wrong, ill; to one's cost; where the shoe pinches.

Phrases

bad is the best: the worst come to the worst; herba mala presto cresco [Lat.]; wrongs unredressed or insults unavenged [Wordsworth].