be evil
Example Sentences
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Originally, long before the current surge of interest in the ethics of AI, Google's founders, Sergei Brin and Larry Page, said their motto for the firm was "don't be evil".
From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2025
They don't even have to be evil because they were so incompetent.
From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2023
Throughout, Loftus gives a gripping performance as a woman desperate to make a good impression on a family that may be evil.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2022
Skeptics were quick to dismiss these safeguards as just another, more convoluted version of ‘‘Don’t be evil.’’
From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2022
Just to be evil, I rubbed it in with an insult “I don’t know why your lip is hanging,” I said.
From "One Crazy Summer" by Rita Williams-Garcia
