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Yes, he did so with the help of Hitler and Mussolini, and his proximity to these evil men is a true blot on his record.

But even aside from its profitability, many whites in the Antebellum South had come to see slaveholding not as a necessary evil, to be accepted apologetically, but as a positive moral good.

Twin brothers who return home to the Mississippi Delta in 1932 for a fresh start, not realising an evil force awaits them.

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For him, Vecna is devoid of any humanity, but when he is playing Henry, there’s still “elements of humanity,” though his intentions are pure evil.

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To mirror the real world, the Land of Sweets was not spared from an evil nutcracker tyrant.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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