evildoing

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

But the movie needs him to be the baddie, so he reverts to evildoing for no apparent reason.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

Does a donation from the Bin Ladens - however remote from the evildoing of a disowned son - fit into this model of monarchy?

From BBC • Jul. 31, 2022

Since “Despicable Me” was based on Gru, the evildoing protagonist, the Minions needed to help balance him.

From Seattle Times • May 5, 2022

There’s something exceedingly cut-and-dried about this case — something so banal in its evildoing — that it wouldn’t measure up to most of the episodes in “Law & Order’s” considerable library of reruns.

From Washington Post • Sep. 25, 2017

A glance at the latter was enough to show that, whatever ambitions he may have had in the direction of villainy, he had not the brains necessary for really satisfactory evildoing.

From The White Feather by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)