Included with:
πονηρός, ά, όν, in physical sense,
oppressed by toils, πονηρότατος καὶ ἄριστος, of Heracles, [
Refs 8th c.BC+]
2) of things,
toilsome, painful, grievous, ἔργα [
Refs 8th c.BC+]
II)
in bad case, in sorry plight, useless, good-for-nothing, σύμμαχοι[
Refs 5th c.BC+]; κύων, ἱππάριον, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; δίαιτα, τροφή, σιτία,
injurious, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. σῶμα, opposed to χρηστόν, [
Refs]; π. σκώμματα
sorry jests, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. πράγματα a
bad state of things, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. ἀρχὴ τῆς παιδείας a
bad beginning, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
adverb, -ρῶς ἔχειν to be
in bad case, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. διακεῖσθαι, διατεθῆναι, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
III) in moral sense,
worthless, knavish, φήμη, βίος, ζόη, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; πονηρὸς. κἀκ πονηρῶν
rogue and son
of rogues, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὦ πόνῳ πονηρέ in a comic jingle, [
Refs]; π. πόρρω τέχνης past master in
knavery, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. [ῥῆμα]
malicious, [
NT]
wickednesses, [
LXX+5th c.BC+]; δόλῳ πονηρῷ, Latin
dolo malo, [
Refs 2nd c.BC+]; ὁ π. the
evil one, [
NT+4th c.AD+]
III.2)
base, cowardly, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. χρώματα, i.e. the coward's hue, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
III.3) with a political connotation,
of the baser sort, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to καλοὶ κἀγαθοί, [
Refs 5th c.BC+] —On the variation of accent, πονηρός and πόνηρος, see at {μοχθηρός} near the end