The corpus record

κᾰκουργ-ία

kakourgia · ἡ

wickedness, villainy, malice

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Where it lives

On the Cavalry Commander 1 · 1.74/10k
Machabaeorum II 2 · 1.73/10k
Hiero 1 · 1.68/10k
Rhetoric 2 · 0.47/10k
Republic 4 · 0.45/10k
Meditations 1 · 0.34/10k
Politics 2 · 0.31/10k
Psalmi 1 · 0.29/10k
Cyropaedia 2 · 0.25/10k
Laws 2 · 0.19/10k
Nicomachean Ethics 1 · 0.18/10k
History 2 · 0.13/10k

Densest 12 of 14 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

wickedness, villainy, malice, vice, malpractices

wickedness, villainy, malice, ὡς κακοεργίης εὐεργεσίη μέγʼ ἀμείνων Od. 22.374, cf. Th. 1.37, etc.; of a horse, vice, X. Eq.Mag. 1.15: in pl., malpractices, τὰ κιβδηλεύματά τε καὶ κ. τῶν πωλούντων Pl. Lg. 917e: κ. καὶ ἀπάται καὶ δολώσεις X. Cyr. 1.6.28, etc.

II bad workmanship

bad workmanship, only in form κακοεργία Pl. R. 422a.

III injury, ill effects

injury, τῆς ἑαυτοῦ πόλεως ib. 434c: pl., ill effects, ἀποκρούειν τὰς τῶν φαρμάκων κ. Dsc. 1.90.

In the wild

κακουργία · kakourgia Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1165b (DIORISIS sentence 3153)
κακουργίαν · kakourgian Aristotle, Politics 1265b (DIORISIS sentence 498)
κακουργίαν · kakourgian Aristotle, Politics 1295b (DIORISIS sentence 1615)
κακουργίαν · kakourgian Aristotle, Rhetoric 2
κακουργίαν · kakourgian Aristotle, Rhetoric 2
κακουργίας · kakourgias Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2.13 (DIORISIS sentence 2049)

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Where it came from

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