أَسَآءَ
Root: سوأ
Form: 4
Full Definition
2 [See also أَسْوَى, in several senses, in art. سوي.]
def.2 اسآءهُ He corrupted it, or marred it; [did it ill;] did it not well; namely, a thing. It is said in a prov., أَسَآءَ كَارِهٌ مَا عَمِلَ [An unwilling person did ill what he did]; relating to a man who was compelled against his will, by another, to do a thing, and marred it, or did it not well: it is applied to the man who seeks an object of want and does not take pains to accomplish it. See also 1, in two places, in the former half of the paragraph. [And see 2.]
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