The corpus record

κᾰκοποι-έω

kakopoieo

do ill, play the knave

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Where it lives

1 Peter 2 · 11.6/10k
Esther 2 · 3.62/10k
Proverbia 3 · 2.7/10k
Esdras II 2 · 1.69/10k
Regnorum I 3 · 1.62/10k
Meditations 4 · 1.38/10k
Regnorum II 2 · 1.24/10k
Esdras I 1 · 1.22/10k
Genesis 3 · 1/10k
Mark 1 · 0.91/10k
Paralipomenon I 1 · 0.75/10k
Jeremias 2 · 0.72/10k

Densest 12 of 22 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

do ill, play the knave, manage oneʼs affairs ill

do ill, play the knave, A. Fr. 111, Ar. Pax 731; manage oneʼs affairs ill, X. Oec. 3.11.

II do mischief to, injure

trans., do mischief to, injure, πολλὰ μὲν τὴν βασιλέως χώραν κ. Id. Mem. 3.5.26, cf. Plb. 4.6.10; τὰς νῆας Id. 13.4.1:—Pass., Id. 27.7.6.

In the wild

κακοποιεῖν · kakopoiein Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1114b (DIORISIS sentence 816)
κακοποιεῖν · kakopoiein Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 1.3.1 (DIORISIS sentence 3)
κακοποιεῖν · kakopoiein Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 11.18.4 (DIORISIS sentence 1921)
κακοποιεῖν · kakopoiein Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 6.1.1 (DIORISIS sentence 726)
κακοποιῆσαι · kakopoiēsai Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 6.44.1 (DIORISIS sentence 890)
κακοποιῶν · kakopoiōn New Testament, 1 Peter 2.12 (DIORISIS sentence 31)

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Where it came from

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