πονηρῷ (ponero)

πονηρῷ is an Ancient Greek form of πονηρός, meaning “bad, wicked, worthless”. It is the dative singular neuter adjective.

Found 58 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 5.1.17: … θεὶς τί περιγίνεται κέρδος τοῖς ψευδομένοις, ὅταν, ἔφη, λέγωσιν ἀληθῆ, μὴ πιστεύεσθαι. ὀνειδιζόμενός ποτε ὅτι πονηρῷ ἀνθρώπῳ ἐλεημοσύνην ἔδωκεν, οὐ τὸν τρόπον, εἶπεν, ἀλλὰ τὸν ἄνθρωπον ἠλέησα. συνεχὲς εἰώθει λέγειν πρός τε τοὺ …

Euripides, Electra 928: ἄμφω πονηρὼ δʼ ὄντʼ ἀνῃρεῖσθον τύχην

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.