evil
Usage
What are other ways to say evil?
Evil applies to that which violates or leads to the violation of moral law: evil practices. Ill now appears mainly in certain fixed expressions, with a milder implication than that in evil: ill will; ill-natured. Wicked implies willful and determined doing of what is very wrong: a wicked plan. Bad is the broadest and simplest term: a bad man; bad habits.
Example Sentences
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To return to the historical evidence, the weakening of political and economic institutions is usually enough for the evil deed to be done.
That team became the lordly Yankees, an “aesthetically evil” and “universally despised dynasty” that, nonetheless, Mr. Gittlitz grudgingly admits, has a lot of working-class fans.
“He had an evil side to him,” Huerta told ABC News.
From Los Angeles Times
“It seems for Jews that there is a calculus of the lesser of evils,” she said.
By that time it was seen as the lesser evil for the industry.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
