αἰσχρά (aischra)

αἰσχρά is an Ancient Greek form of αἰσχρός, meaning “shameful, ugly”. It is the accusative plural neuter adjective.

Found 227 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.48.4: … πὸ χρημάτων καταπροδόντες οἱ στρατηγοὶ ἀπῆλθον. οὔκουν βούλεσθαι αὐτός γε ἐπιστάμενος τὰς Ἀθηναίων φύσεις ἐπ᾽ αἰσχρᾷ τε αἰτίᾳ καὶ ἀδίκως ὑπ’ Ἀθηναίων ἀπολέσθαι μᾶλλον ἢ ὑπὸ τῶν πολεμίων, εἰ δεῖ, κινδυνεύσας τοῦτο παθεῖν ἰδίᾳ.

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 6.1.12: … αι. τὸν δίκαιον περὶ πλείονος ποιεῖσθαι τοῦ συγγενοῦς· ἀνδρὸς καὶ γυναικὸς ἡ αὐτὴ ἀρετή· τἀγαθὰ καλά, τὰ κακὰ αἰσχρά· τὰ πονηρὰ νόμιζε πάντα ξενικά.

Euripides, Hippolytus 404: μήτ’ αἰσχρὰ δρώσῃ μάρτυρας πολλοὺς ἔχειν.

All forms of αἰσχρός (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.