ungood

comparative ungooder · comparative more ungood · superlative ungoodest · superlative most ungood

1. Not good; bad.

   This man is very, very ungood.

   2010, Timothy M. Dale, Joseph J. Foy, Kate Mulgrew, quoting Jon Stewart, “The Daily Show and the Politics of Truth”, in Homer Simpson Marches on Washington: Dissent Through American Popular Culture, →ISBN, Popular Culture as Public Space, page 48

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   An unjust judge, as one well observes, is a cold fire, a dark sun, a dry sea, a mare mortuum, an ungood god, contradictio in adjecto, monsters, not men, much less gods.

   1660, George Swinnock, “The Beauty of Magistracy: An Exposition of Psalm LXXXII.”, in Works, volume IV, published 1868, The Beauty of Magistracy, page 236

   Now to make a short story shorter, we all know this is very ungood for a new motor and I do not want to thank the person or persons who unwittingly left their fingerprints, of which I have photostatic copies, so that might detect the presence of graphite before staring the motor.

   1947 March 8, “Dirty Work at the X-Roads?”, in Billboard, volume 59, number 11, Nielsen Business Media, Inc., published 15 March 1947, →ISSN, page 50

   What I was before wasn't good for me. But it was from that ungood that I put together something better: I had put together hope. From my own ungood I had created a future good.

   1988, Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H., →ISBN, page 5

   “Way ungood guys, way ungood.”

   2008, Rodney Davis, The Revelation Voyage, →ISBN, page 14

   And remember! Islam is ungood; atheism, file sharing, civil liberties and homosexuality are doubleplusungood.

   2010 June 6, "Tim", “Re:McDonald's Ad Promotes Teenage Homosexuality”, in alt.socieity.liberalism (Usenet)

2. in pluralThose who are not good; the wicked, evil, or bad.

   The authorities desire to deceive humankind, because they perceived him being in a kinship to the truly good. So they took the word 'good', they applied it to the ungood so that thru words they might deceive and bind him within the ungood.

   2009, Andra Chambers, The Book of Wisdom, page 88

1. rareuncountableLack or absence of good; goodlessness; bad

   “[…] In some, however, the ungood has turned inside out. It tortures only the spirit within.”

   2013, Shana Abé, The Truelove Bride

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   Here we can see that electricity is merely a manifestation of the fundamental dichotomy of the dualistic universe, the struggle between Good and Ungood, between Yin and Yang.

   1953, Tech Engineering News, volume 35, page 34

   This government has bought the myths and is determined to foist this 'ungood' on every Australian citizen. I say 'ungood' deliberately.

   (Can we date this quote?), Parliamentary Debates Australia: Senate, page 5982