Sekirov Dictionary

evil

/ˈiːvəl/

adjective 6
adverb 3
noun 3
forms 7
phrases 2

adjective6

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cruel and wanting to do terrible harm to other people
- For a good while the Miss Brownings were kept in ignorance of the evil tongues that whispered hard words about Molly. — 1864
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Morally corrupt.
- If something is evil, it is never mandatory.
- Do you think that companies that engage in animal testing are evil?
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Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous.
- The owl shrieked at thy birth,—an evil sign — 1591
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(slang) Undesirable; harmful; bad practice.
- Global variables are evil; storing processing context in object member variables allows those objects to be reused in a much more flexible way.
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Unpleasant, foul (of odor, taste, mood, weather, etc.).
- He awoke in an evil temper […] — 1897
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(no longer used) Having harmful qualities; not good; worthless or deleterious.
- A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit. — 1611

adverb3

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(no longer used) badly, poorly; in an insufficient way.
- It went evil with him.
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(no longer used) wickedly, evilly, iniquitously
- O what of Gods then boots it to be borne, / If old Aveugles sonnes so euill heare? — 1596
(no longer used) injuriously, harmfully; in a damaging way.

noun3

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Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good.
- The evils of society include murder and theft.
- Evil lacks spirituality, hence its need for mind control.
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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.
- evils which our own misdeeds have wrought — 1667
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(no longer used) A malady or disease; especially in combination, as in king's evil, colt evil.
- [The disease]Tis call'd the Euill. — 1606

forms

evils · eviler · eviller · more evil · evilest · evillest · most evil

Phrases with evil

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