πονηροί (poneroi)

πονηροί is an Ancient Greek form of πονηρός, meaning “bad, wicked, worthless”. It is the nominative plural masculine adjective.

Found 116 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Cyclops 642: ἄνδρες πονηροὶ κοὐδὲν οἵδε σύμμαχοι.

Plutarch, Themistocles 21.5: ὡς οὖν ὁ Θεμιστοκλῆς αἰτίαν ἔσχε μηδίζειν, ταῦτʼ ἐποίησεν εἰς αὐτόν· οὐκ ἄρα Τιμοκρέων μοῦνος Μήδοισιν ὁρκιατομεῖ, ἀλλʼ ἐντὶ κἆλλοι δὴ πονηροί· οὐκ ἐγὼ μόνα κόλουρις· ἐντὶ καὶ ἄλλαι ἀλώπεκες.

Aristophanes, Wasps 1330: ὦ πόνηροι ταυτῃὶ τῇ

All forms of πονηρός (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.