A.causing shame, dishonouring, reproachful, “νείκεσσεν . . αἰσχροῖς ἐπέεσσιν” Il.3.38, etc. Adv. “αἰσχρῶς, ἐνένισπεν” 23.473.
II. opp. καλός:
1. of outward appearance, ugly, ill-favoured, of Thersites, Il.2.216, cf. h.Ap.197, Hdt.1.196 (Comp.), etc. ; deformed, Hp.Art.14 (Sup.); αἰσχρῶς χωλός with an ugly lameness, ib.63: but commonly,
2. in moral sense, shameful, base, Hdt.3.155, A.Th.685, etc.; “αἰσχροῖς γὰρ αἰσχρὰ πράγματ᾽ ἐκδιδάσκεται” S.El.621; αἰσχρόν [ἐστι], c. inf., Il.2.298, S.Aj.473, etc.; αἰσχρόν, εἰ πύθοιτό τις ib.1159; “ἐν αἰσχρῷ θέσθαι τι” E.Hec.806 ; ἐπ᾽ αἰσχροῖς on the ground of base actions, S. Fr.188, E.Hipp.511:—τὸ αἰ. as Subst., dishonour, S.Ph.476; τὸ ἐμὸν αἰ. my disgrace, And.2.9; τὸ καλὸν καὶ τὸ αἰ. virtue and vice, Arist.Rh. 1366a24, etc. Adv., shamefully, S.El.989, Pl.Smp.183d, etc.: Sup. “αἴσχιστα” A.Pr.959, S.OT367.
3. ill-suited, “αἰ. ὁ καιρός” D.18.178; αἰ. πρός τι awkward at it, X.Mem.3.8.7; “αἰσχρὸν καὶ ἄτεχνον” Hp. Fract.30.
III. Regul. Comp. and Sup. -ότερος, -ότατος are late, Phld.Rh.2.58S. (prob.), Ath.13.587b: elsewh. αἰσχίων, αἴσχιστος (formed from a Root αἰσχο- ), Il.21.437, 2.216; double Sup. “αἰσχιστότατος” Olymp.in Alc.p.124 C. Adv., Sup. “αἰσχίστως” Mnasalc. ap. Ath.4.163a, Man.1.21.
