= shrewd, adj. (in various senses); wicked, evil-disposed; bad; shrewish, ill-tempered.

Of persons, their qualities, actions, etc.: Depraved, wicked; evil-disposed, malignant. Passing into a weaker sense: Malicious, mischievous. dialect.

Wicked, sinful; evil-disposed. Obsolete.

Having a bad disposition; disposed to evil or harm; immoral, wicked; malignant, malevolent; unpropitious.

Wicked, ill-disposed, malignant. Obsolete.

Of evil disposition or condition; evilly disposed or inclined; ill-conditioned; also, of the weather, in a bad state, bad (cf. Old French indispositio…

Ill-natured. Obsolete. rare.

Of evil disposition; having, or showing, malevolent character or feeling; unkindly, churlish, spiteful. (Of persons, their actions, etc.)

Not amiable, in senses of that adjective. Of conduct, disposition, etc.

that has thriven badly; badly grown, sickly, stunted; peevish, ill-disposed.

Originally British regional. Of a person (also occasionally, a piece of writing): ill-tempered, spiteful, unkind (to someone).