The corpus record

κᾰκοήθ-ης

kakoethes

ill-disposed, malicious

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Where it lives

Machabaeorum IV 2 · 2.59/10k
Discourses 5 · 0.67/10k
Epistles 1 · 0.59/10k
Rhetoric 2 · 0.47/10k
Eudemian Ethics 1 · 0.38/10k
Meditations 1 · 0.34/10k
Republic 1 · 0.11/10k

What it meant — LSJ

ill-disposed, malicious, thinking evil, prone to put the worst construction on everything, malice, wickedness

ill-disposed, malicious, opp. εὐήθης, Ar. Pax 822 (Comp., 823), D. 18.11, Pl. Ep. 360c, Ph. 1.529, etc.; of animals, κ. ὄρνεον καὶ πανοῦργον Arist. HA 613b23; esp. thinking evil, prone to put the worst construction on everything, Id. Rh. 1389b20; τὸ κακόηθες malice, wickedness, Pl. R. 401b, Men. 653, Ph. 1.684, etc. Adv., πανούργως καὶ -ήθως Men. Epit. 318; κ. πολιτεύεσθαι Philipp. ap. D. 18.78, cf. J. AJ 13.11.1: Comp. -εστέρως Poll. 4.148.

II infamous, abominable

of things, infamous, abominable, κλειδία κρυπτὰ -έστατα Ar. Th. 422.

2 malignant

Medic., of sores, fevers, etc., malignant, Hp. Aph. 6.4, Prog. 20 (Sup.); ἐξάνθημα Phld. Ind.Sto. 26. Adv. -θως Hp. Art. 41 codd.

In the wild

κακοήθης · kakoēthēs Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics 7
κακοήθεις · kakoētheis Aristotle, Rhetoric 2
κακοήθεις · kakoētheis Aristotle, Rhetoric 2
κακοήθης · kakoēthēs Epictetus, Discourses 1.3 (DIORISIS sentence 204)
κακοήθη · kakoēthē Epictetus, Discourses 2.9 (DIORISIS sentence 2313)
κακοήθους · kakoēthous Epictetus, Discourses 3.25 (DIORISIS sentence 5594)

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