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evil
adjective as in sinful, immoral
Strongest matches
noun as in badness, immorality; disaster
Strong matches
- affliction
- baseness
- blow
- criminality
- curse
- debauchery
- depravity
- devilry
- diabolism
- heinousness
- hurt
- impiety
- indecency
- infamy
- iniquity
- injury
- knavery
- lewdness
- licentiousness
- looseness
- malevolence
- malignity
- meanness
- mischief
- misfortune
- obscenity
- outrage
- perversity
- ruin
- sinfulness
- sorrow
- turpitude
- vice
- viciousness
- vileness
- villainy
- wickedness
- woe
- wrongdoing
Weak match
Example Sentences
Kirk is known for melding his conservative politics, nationalism and evangelical faith, casting the current political climate as a state of spiritual warfare between a righteous right wing and “evil” liberals.
“Color Theories” reaches its apex when Torres begins discussing the space between the shades black and white — neither representing good nor evil, but rather the known and the unknown.
Bill Kilgore from “Apocalypse Now,” the 1979 Francis Ford Coppola film that chronicles the breakdown of empathy and examines humanity’s capacity for evil against the backdrop of the Vietnam War.
“But I think that, as this new model of consciousness emerges, a lot more good will come of it than evil.”
"There are evil people. We have to be able to handle that. If we don't handle that, we don't have a country," he said.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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