An act intended to help that turns out badly.
synonyms: disservice, ill service.
Roget 907:
malevolence;
bad intent,
bad intention;
unkindness,
diskindness†;
ill nature,
ill will,
ill blood;
bad blood;
enmity
etc.
889;
hate
etc.
898;
malignity;
malice,
malice prepense†;
maliciousness
etc.
adj.;
spite,
despite;
resentment
etc.
900.
uncharitableness
etc.
adj.;
incompassionateness
etc.
914.1†;
gall,
venom,
rancor,
rankling,
virulence,
mordacity†,
acerbity
churlishness
etc.
(discourtesy)
895.
hardness of heart,
heart of stone,
obduracy;
cruelty;
cruelness
etc.
adj.;
brutality,
savagery;
ferity†,
ferocity;
barbarity,
inhumanity,
immanity†,
truculence,
ruffianism;
evil eye,
cloven foot;
torture,
vivisection.
ill turn,
bad turn;
affront
etc.
(disrespect)
929;
outrage,
atrocity;
ill usage;
intolerance,
persecution;
tender mercies [Iron.];
unkindest cut of all"
[Julius Caesar].
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Roget 900:
resentment,
displeasure,
animosity,
anger,
wrath,
indignation;
exasperation,
bitter resentment,
wrathful indignation.
pique,
umbrage,
huff,
miff,
soreness,
dudgeon,
acerbity,
virulence,
bitterness,
acrimony,
asperity,
spleen,
gall;
heart-burning,
heart-swelling;
rankling.
ill humor,
bad humor,
ill temper,
bad temper;
irascibility
etc.
901;
ill blood
etc.
(hate)
898;
revenge
etc.
919.
excitement,
irritation;
warmth,
bile,
choler,
ire,
fume,
pucker,
dander,
ferment,
ebullition;
towering passion,
acharnement [Fr.],
angry mood,
taking,
pet,
tiff,
passion,
fit,
tantrums.
burst,
explosion,
paroxysm,
storm,
rage,
fury,
desperation;
violence
etc.
173;
fire and fury;
vials of wrath;
gnashing of teeth,
hot blood,
high words.
scowl
etc.
895;
sulks
etc.
901.1.
[Cause of umbrage]
affront,
provocation,
offense;
indignity
etc.
(insult)
929;
grudge,
crow to pluck,
bone to pick,
sore subject,
casus belli [Lat.];
ill turn,
outrage.
Furies,
Eumenides.
buffet,
slap in the face,
box on the ear,
rap on the knuckles.
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Roget 619:
evil,
ill,
harm,
hurt. ,
mischief,
nuisance;
machinations of the devil,
Pandora's box,
ills that flesh is heir to.
blow,
buffet,
stroke,
scratch,
bruise,
wound,
gash,
mutilation;
mortal blow,
wound;
immedicabile vulnus [Lat.];
damage,
loss
etc.
(deterioration)
659.
disadvantage,
prejudice,
drawback.
disaster,
accident,
casualty;
mishap
etc.
(misfortune)
735;
bad job,
devil to pay;
calamity,
bale,
catastrophe,
tragedy;
ruin
etc.
(destruction)
162;
adversity
etc.
735.
mental suffering
etc.
828.
demon
etc.
980.
(Evil spirit)
bane,
etc.
663
(cause of evil).
badness,
etc.
649
(Production of Evil);
painfulness,
etc.
830;
evil doer,
etc.
913.
outrage,
wrong,
injury,
foul play;
bad turn,
ill turn;
disservice,
spoliation
etc.
791;
grievance,
crying evil.
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