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κακοῦργος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κακοῦργος

Structure: κακουργ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: e)/rgw

Sense

  1. doing ill, mischievous, knavish, villanous, importunate
  2. a malefactor, criminal, a thief, robber
  3. doing harm, hurtful

Examples

  • ζυγὸσ καὶ ἱμὰσ κάμψουσι τράχηλον, καὶ οἰκέτῃ κακούργῳ στρέβλαι καὶ βάσανοι. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 33:27)
  • Δίφιλοσ δ’ ἐν Γάμῳ φησὶν ὁ γὰρ κόλαξ καὶ στρατηγὸν καὶ δυνάστην καὶ φίλουσ καὶ τὰσ πόλεισ ἀνατρέπει λόγῳ κακούργῳ μικρὸν ἡδύνασ χρόνον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 65 3:2)
  • ὥστε κινδυνεύεισ οὐκ ἀληθῆ λέγειν ἐν τοῖσ πρόσθεν οὐδὲ ὀρθῶσ ἐμοῦ κατηγορεῖν λέγων ὅτι ἐναντίον ἐστὶν ὁ νόμοσ καὶ ἡ φύσισ, ἃ δὴ καὶ ἐγὼ γνοὺσ κακουργῶ ἐν τοῖσ λόγοισ, ἐὰν μέν τισ κατὰ φύσιν λέγῃ, ἐπὶ τὸν νόμον ἄγων, ἐὰν δέ τισ κατὰ νόμον, ἐπὶ τὴν φύσιν. (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 257:1)

Synonyms

  1. doing ill

  2. doing harm

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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