κακούργους (kakourgous)

κακούργους is an Ancient Greek form of κάκουργος, meaning “doing ill, mischievous, knavish”. It is the accusative plural masculine adjective.

Found 40 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.134.4: καὶ αὐτὸν ἐμέλλησαν μὲν ἐς τὸν Καιάδαν [οὗπερ τοὺς κακούργους] ἐσβάλλειν· ἔπειτα ἔδοξε πλησίον που κατορύξαι. ὁ δὲ θεὸς ὁ ἐν Δελφοῖς τόν τε τάφον ὕστερον ἔχρησε τοῖς Λακεδ …

Claudius Ptolemaeus, Tetrabiblos 3.13·4: … , αἰσχροκερδεῖς, ἀθέους, ἀστόργους, ὑβριστάς, ἐπιβουλευτικούς, κλέπτας, ἐπιόρκους, μιαιφόνους, ἀθεμιτοφάγους, κακουργούς, ἀνδροφόνους, φαρμακευτάς, ἱεροσύλους, ἀσεβεῖς, τυμβορύχους καὶ ὅλως παγκάκους. Τῷ δὲ τῆς Ἀφροδίτης συνοικειω …

All forms of κάκουργος (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.