scaevĭtas

I. Awkwardness, perverseness, unskilfulness, Gell. praef., § 20; 6, 2, 8: artium, Amm. 30, 4, 10.—

II. A mischance, misfortune, App. M. 3, p. 135, 27: fortunae, id. ib. 7, p. 189, 4: indignae rei, id. ib. 9, p. 221, 21.