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evil

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1. evil - Noun

2. evil - Adjective

3. evil - Adverb

5. evil - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Having qualities tending to injury and mischief; having a nature or properties which tend to badness; mischievous; not good; worthless or deleterious; poor; as, an evil beast; and evil plant; an evil crop.

Having or exhibiting bad moral qualities; morally corrupt; wicked; wrong; vicious; as, evil conduct, thoughts, heart, words, and the like.

Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous; as, evil tidings; evil arrows; evil days.

Anything which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; anything which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; injury; mischief; harm; -- opposed to good.

Moral badness, or the deviation of a moral being from the principles of virtue imposed by conscience, or by the will of the Supreme Being, or by the principles of a lawful human authority; disposition to do wrong; moral offence; wickedness; depravity.

malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil, the scrofula.

In an evil manner; not well; ill; badly; unhappily; injuriously; unkindly.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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attempts to explain the origin of evil in the world Source: Internet

the evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones Source: Internet

malevolent stars Source: Internet

a malefic force Source: Internet

evil purposes Source: Internet

an evil influence Source: Internet

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