evil
Usage
What are other ways to say evil?
Evil applies to that which violates or leads to the violation of moral law: evil practices. Ill now appears mainly in certain fixed expressions, with a milder implication than that in evil: ill will; ill-natured. Wicked implies willful and determined doing of what is very wrong: a wicked plan. Bad is the broadest and simplest term: a bad man; bad habits.
Example Sentences
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Beethoven’s music improves Goethe, extracting its humanity and frailty, and Dudamel’s performance probed its profound inevitability of good triumphing over evil.
From Los Angeles Times
“Did you at least prepare him for the vortex of evil that is the Seton brand—I mean, family?” she snarks merrily.
“I nail my mouth to the evil taste of lipstick, inhale the scent of someone else’s lipstick…”
From Salon
And, like evil, there will always be bad writing.
“At the end of the day, was it a force of good, or was it a force of evil? I hope people keep debating that,” Sivan said.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
