दुष्ट

Borrowed from Sanskrit दुष्ट (duṣṭa). Related to the verb दुष्यति (duṣyati, “to be bad, sin, spoil (the mind)”).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /d̪ʊʂʈ/

दुष्ट • (duṣṭ) m

1. rascal, rogue, wicked person
   • 1880 – 1936, Premchand, दुर्गा का मन्दिर:

     तुम इन दुष्टों को यहाँ से हटाती हो कि नहीं?

     tum in duṣṭõ ko yahā̃ se haṭātī ho ki nahī̃?

     Are you getting these rascals aways from here or not?

दुष्ट • (duṣṭ) (indeclinable)

1. wicked, evil
2. corrupt, base

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “दुष्ट”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press