Meaning

Ill-conditioned, malignant; cacoethic..

Example Sentences

To lance and cleanſe this Cacoethical Ulcer, to the bottom, Conſider we, that the General Laws of Nature, whereby ſhe produceth All Effects, by the Action of one and Paſſion of another thing, […]

In obedience to the royal command, we have attended to the cacoethical diſeaſe which had ſeized many perſons belonging to your imperial court; and we are most happy in informing your majeſty, that we have by proper applications reſtored all the patients that fell under our care, to compoſure, health and harmony, except the ſcribe, Quil-king-gum, who, unfortunately, expired under the operation neceſſary to his cure.

Some passages are metaphorical, some metonymical; some are analogical, some parabolical, some are cacoethical, and some catachrestical; […]

[…] by the Cirrhæan spikes, by the boiled head of my own baby served in Egyptian vinegar, I curse the whole insanable cacoëthical cohort of scriptitating—

Why a king might want to keep his cast is beyond the understanding of cacoethical billygoats.

And when I broke out in laughter at this beached, stripped, cacoethical marlin, this pallid ichthyosaur, […]

Word Forms

• more cacoethical
• most cacoethical
• cacoëthical

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