English- translations for evil
Definition of evil
- Intending to harm; malevolent
- Morally corrupt
- Unpleasant, foul (''of odour, taste, mood, weather, etc.''
- Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous
- Having harmful qualities; not good; worthless or deleterious
- undesirable; harmful; bad practice
- Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good
- Something which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; something which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; harm; injury; mischief
- A malady or disease; especially in the phrase ''king's evil'(scrofula
- wickedly, evilly, iniquitously
- badly, poorly; in an insufficient way
Examples
- an evil plot to brainwash and even kill innocent people
- If something is evil, it is never mandatory
- Do you think that companies that engage in animal testing are evil?
- an evil beast; an evil plant; an evil crop
- Global variables are evil; storing processing context in object member variables allows those objects to be reused in a much more flexible way.
- The evils of society include murder and theft
- Evil lacks spirituality, hence its need for mind control
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