evil spirit

Noun

Meaning

a spirit tending to cause harm

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

lucifer genie antichrist satan wight goblin incubus oni imp phosphor ahriman banshee fae chimaera hobgoblin
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Antonyms

christ jesus god allah lord odin
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Hypernyms

spirit disembodied spirit

Hyponyms

lamia goblin hobgoblin daemon fiend hob

Examples

It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man. Albert Einstein

Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, fear is wrong life. All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. Swami Vivekananda

You are my evil spirit... you and the hard course world! Nathaniel Hawthorne

The evil spirit of love left his soul for a moment, but returned, though with a strange and lurid aspect, bringing with him other and worse spirits than himself-hate, revenge, blood-thirstiness-all merged in and coloured by the excited and fanatic temper of the time. Letitia Elizabeth Landon

I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us. Martin Luther

The evil spirit of a man is a man. Swahili Proverb

Close letter words and terms

evil sickness evil snake evil spell evil spirits evil suggestion evil supernatural being