evil
IPA: ˈivʌɫ
noun
- Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good.
- Something which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; something which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; harm; injury; mischief.
- (obsolete) A malady or disease; especially in combination, as in king's evil, colt evil.
adjective
- Intending to harm; malevolent.
- Morally corrupt.
- Unpleasant, foul (of odour, taste, mood, weather, etc.).
- Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous.
- (obsolete) Having harmful qualities; not good; worthless or deleterious.
- (computing, programming, slang) Undesirable; harmful; bad practice.
adverb
- (obsolete) wickedly, evilly, iniquitously
- (obsolete) injuriously, harmfully; in a damaging way.
- (obsolete) badly, poorly; in an insufficient way.
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Examples of "evil" in Sentences
- The man is evil and unjust.
- The man is evil and depraved.
- The monsters are nasty and evil.
- Twinkle is the embodiment of evil.
- Constant shallowness leads to evil.
- This is the propensity of good and evil.
- These are the evil minions of the maelstrom.
- Here too a man discovers to his amazement that the negative is the evil.'
- It can be read as a bad dream or a soap opera about the banality of evil.
- Evil is the absence or the perversion of good and comes from man's bad choices.
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