سوء

سَيِّئٌ ذ , [originally سَيْوِئٌ (as will be shown below, voce سَيِّئَةٌ), then سَيْيِئٌ, and then سَيِّئٌ,] applied to a thing [of any kind], (Lth, TA,) Evil, bad, abominable, foul, unseemly, unsightly, or ugly; (Lth, Msb, TA;) contr. of حَسَنٌ: (Msb:) sometimes contracted into ↓ سَىْءٌ, like as هَيِّنٌ is contracted in هَيْنٌ, and لَيّنٌ into لَيْنٌ; as in the saying of Et-Tuhawee, وَلَا يَجْزُونَ مِنْ حَسَنٍ مِسَىْءٍ وَلَا يَجْزُونَ مِنْ غِلَظٍ بِلِينِ [ And they will not requite good with evil, nor will they requite roughness with gentleness ]. (S.) You say قَوْلٌ سَيِّئٌ [ An evil saying; or] a saying that displeases. (M, TA.) And فَعْلَةٌ سَيِّئَةٌ [ An evil action or deed ]. (TA.) And it is said in the Kur [xxxv. 41], وَمَكْرَ ا@لسَّيِّئِ وَلَا يَحِيقُ ا@لْمَكْرُ ا@لسَّيِّئٌ اـِلَّا بِأَهْلِهِ [ And in the plotting of that which is evil; but the evil plotting shall not beset any save the authors thereof ]. (M, TA.) One says also, فُلَانٌ سَيِّئُ الاِخْتِيَارِ [ Such a one is evil in respect of choice, or preference ]. (S.) [See also the next paragraph.]