Home › Words › C › cacoethicscacoethics/ˌkakəʊˈɛθɪks/cacoethics means bad ethics or morals; bad habits.cacoethics is pronounced /ˌkakəʊˈɛθɪks/.EtymologyFrom caco- + ethics.nounBad ethics or morals; bad habits.e.g.“The correspondence appears to have begun in one of the endless foolishnesses about contemporary novel-writing which appear to beguile the leisure of so many of our modern Cacoëthics.” — 1885, Punch, volumes 88–89, →OCLC, page 1:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.cacoethic 79% match — Ill-conditioned, malignant; cacoethical. vs cacoethics →cacoethically 79% match — In a cacoethic (or cacoethical) manner. vs cacoethics →cacoethical 79% match — Ill-conditioned, malignant; cacoethic. vs cacoethics →cacoëthical 72% match — Dated spelling of cacoethical. vs cacoethics →cacoëthic 70% match — Dated spelling of cacoethic. vs cacoethics →cacoethes 66% match — Compulsion; mania. vs cacoethics →cacoëthes 66% match — Dated spelling of cacoethes. vs cacoethics →cacoepy 64% match — The mispronunciation of words. vs cacoethics →