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more evil

ADJECTIVE

sinful, immoral

Synonyms

STRONGEST

bad corrupt destructive hateful heinous hideous malevolent malicious nefarious ugly unpleasant vicious vile villainous wicked

STRONG

base foul low offensive poison reprobate wrong

WEAK

angry atrocious baneful beastly calamitous damnable depraved disastrous execrable flagitious harmful iniquitous injurious loathsome maleficent malignant no good obscene pernicious rancorous repugnant repulsive revolting spiteful stinking unpropitious wrathful

Antonyms

STRONGEST

agreeable aiding assisting attractive beautiful benevolent decent delightful friendly gentle good helpful honest honorable kind lovely nice pleasant pleasing right upright virtuous wonderful worthy

STRONG

moral

WEAK

auspicious sinless

Example Sentences

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She argued that violent crimes motivated by race and religion already carried greater punishments and that "we cannot say, as a society, that some forms of hatred are more evil than others".

From BBC • Jun. 18, 2025

Is it someone who is Inherently bad — born and bred in evil, going on to inflict more evil upon the world?

From Salon • Sep. 17, 2022

It’s contrived to be several orders of magnitude more evil than its original, an orgy of signifiers telegraphing darkness, dominance and a fascination with the saga that continues to permeate contemporary hip-hop.

From Washington Post • Oct. 8, 2020

Every year the wildfires are bigger, more evil, more destructive, more likely to get you.

From New York Times • Nov. 7, 2019

For the hobbits each day, each mile, was more bitter than the one before, as their strength lessened and the land became more evil.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien