Strong G4191πονηρότερος

Included with: πονηρός, ά, όν,
in physical sense, oppressed by toils, πονηρότατος καὶ ἄριστος, of Heracles, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Frr.” 138,139.)]
2 of things, toilsome, painful, grievous, ἔργα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus “Epigrammata” 14.20; νούσων πονηρότερον 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 274; φορτίον 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 352.)]
II in bad case, in sorry plight, useless, good-for-nothing, σύμμαχοι[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 220, compare “Nu.” 102; στράτευμα 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.4.34; ἰατρός 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 4.2.4 (variant for{μοχθηρός}))]; κύων, ἱππάριον, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthydemus” 298d, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.4.19)]; δίαιτα, τροφή, σιτία, injurious, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 425e, “Lg.” 735b, “Grg.” 464d, etc.; π. ἕξις σώματος [prev. author] “Ti.” 86e)]; π. σῶμα, opposed to χρηστόν, [Refs ([prev. author] “Prt.” 313a, compare “R.” 341e)]; π. σκώμματα sorry jests, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 542; π. βούλευμα [prev. author] “Lys.” 517 (_comparative_))]; π. πράγματα a bad state of things, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.97, compare 24)]; π. ἀρχὴ τῆς παιδείας a bad beginning, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.11; π. τὴν ναυτιλίαν ναυτίλλεσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 551c; π. πολιτεία 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1294b38.)] adverb, -ρῶς ἔχειν to be in bad case, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.83, etc.; ἂ πονηρῶς ἔχει τῶν πραγμάτων 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 14.35)]; π. διακεῖσθαι, διατεθῆναι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 19.12, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 59.55.)]
III in moral sense, worthless, knavish, φήμη, βίος, ζόη, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 1045, “Frr.” 90,401, etc.; οὐδεὶς ἑκὼν π. 5th c.BC: Epicharmus Comicus 78; π. ἦθος 3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 192)]; πονηρὸς.. κἀκ πονηρῶν rogue and son of rogues, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 336 - 7)]; ὦ πόνῳ πονηρέ in a comic jingle, [Refs ([prev. author] “V.” 466, compare “Lys.” 350)]; π. πόρρω τέχνης past master in knavery, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “V.” 192; π. τοῖς φίλοις 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.4.33; πρὸς ἀλλήλους [prev. author] “An.” 7.1.39; π. λόγων ἀκρίβεια 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 3.3.3; πονηρότεροι σύμβουλοι [prev. author] 5.71)]; π. [ῥῆμα] malicious, [NT (NT.Matt.5.11; τὰ π.)]wickednesses, [LXX+5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.2.25; πονηρὰ δρᾶσαι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 1190; τὸ π. LXX.Deu.17.2)]; δόλῳ πονηρῷ, Latin dolo malo, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“SIG” 693.6 (Methymna, 2nd c.BC))]; ὁ π. the evil one, [NT+4th c.AD+ (NT.Matt.13.19; π. δαίμων “PLips.” 34.8 (4th c.AD), etc.)]
III.2 base, cowardly, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 437, etc.)]; π. χρώματα, i.e. the coward's hue, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 5.2.34 (interpolated).)]
III.3 with a political connotation, of the baser sort, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 424; οἱ λεγόμενοι π. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 519a)]; opposed to καλοὶ κἀγαθοί, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 15.100,316, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 186.)] —On the variation of accent, πονηρός and πόνηρος, see at {μοχθηρός} near the end