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[ney-vuh-ree] 
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evil
[ee-vuhl]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | badness, immorality; disaster |
| Synonyms: | affliction, baseness, blow, calamity, catastrophe, corruption, crime, criminality, curse, debauchery, depravity, devilry, diablerie, diabolism, harm, hatred, heinousness, hurt, ill, impiety, indecency, infamy, iniquity, injury, knavery, lewdness, licentiousness, looseness, malevolence, malignity, meanness, mischief, misery, misfortune, obscenity, outrage, pain, perversity, ruin, sin, sinfulness, sorrow, suffering, turpitude, vice, viciousness, vileness, villainy, wickedness, woe, wrong, wrongdoing |
| Antonyms: | good, goodness, morality, virtue |
| Main Entry: | swindle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cheating, stealing |
| Synonyms: | blackmail, cheat, con, crooked deal, deceit, deception, dirty pool, double cross, double-dealing, extortion, fake, fast one, fast shuffle, frame-up, fraud, hoax, hustle, imposition, imposture, knavery, racket, rip-off, scam, sell, shady deal, shakedown, sham, sharp practice, shell game, sting, trick, trickery |
| Antonyms: | benevolence, donation, gift |
| Main Entry: | villainy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wickedness |
| Synonyms: | atrociousness, atrocity, corruptness, depravity, evil, immorality, knavery, perversion, vileness, villainousness |
| Main Entry: | deceitfulness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | craftiness |
| Synonyms: | double-dealing, duplicity, knavery, wile |
| Antonyms: | honesty |
| Main Entry: | villainy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wickedness |
| Synonyms: | atrocity, baseness, depravity, knavery, rascality, scoundrelism, turpitude, viciousness, vileness |
| Main Entry: | peccancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | evil |
| Synonyms: | affliction, baseness, blow*, calamity, catastrophe, corruption, crime, criminality, curse, debauchery, depravity, devilry, diabolism, harm, hatred, heinousness, hurt, ill, impiety, indecency, infamy, iniquity, injury, knavery, lewdness, licentiousness, looseness, malevolence, malignity, meanness, mischief, misery, misfortune, obscenity, outrage, pain*, perversity, ruin, sin, sinfulness, sorrow, suffering, turpitude, vice, viciousness, vileness, villainy, wickedness, woe, wrong, wrongdoing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2012 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | evil |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun |
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| Concept: | Evil. |
| Category: | 3. Objects of volition |
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-nouns
evil, ill, harm, hurt, mischief, nuisance; machinations of the devil, Pandora's box, ills that flesh is heir to., blow, buffet, stroke, scratch, bruise, wound, gash, mutilation; mortal blow, wound; immedicabile vulnus; damage, loss (deterioration)., disadvantage, prejudice, drawback., disaster, accident, casualty; mishap (misfortune); bad job, devil to pay; calamity, bale, catastrophe, tragedy; ruin (destruction); adversity., mental suffering., [Evil spirit] demon [more]., [Cause of evil] bane [more]., [Production of evil] badness [more]; painfulness; evildoer., outrage, wrong, injury, foul play; bad turn, ill turn; disservice, spoliation; grievance, crying evil.
-verbs
-adjectives
disastrous, bad; awry, out of joint; disadvantageous.
-adverbs
amis, wrong, ill, to one's cost
-phrases
"moving accidents by flood and field" [Othello]
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| Antonyms: | good |
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