سَيِّئٌ
Root: سوأ
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سَيِّئٌ
, [originally سَيْوِئٌ (as will be shown below, voce سَيِّئَةٌ), then سَيْيِئٌ, and then سَيِّئٌ,] applied to a thing [of any kind], Evil, bad, abominable, foul, unseemly, unsightly, or ugly; contr. of حَسَنٌ: 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
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