سَيِّيءٌ

, [originally سَيْوِيءٌ (as will be shown below, voce سَيِّيءَةٌ), then سَيْيِيءٌ, and then سَيِّيءٌ,] applied to a thing [of any kind], (Lth, TA,) Evil, bad, abominable, foul, unseemly, unsightly, or ugly; (Lth, Msb, TA;) opposite 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 سَيِّيءٌ [An evil saying; or] a saying that displeases. (M, TA.) And فَعْلَةٌ سَيِّيءَةٌ [An evil action or deed]. (TA.) And it is said in the Qur'an, 35:41, وَمَكْرَ السَّيِّيءِ وَلَا يَحِيقُ الْمَكْرُ السَّيِّيءٌ إِلَّا 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 سَيِّيءُ الاِخْتِيَارِ [Such a one is evil in respect of choice, or preference]. (S.) [See also the next paragraph.]