English-Portuguese translations for evil

• mal
  Talvez um mal necessário, mas, em todo o caso, um mal. They may be a necessary evil, but they are an evil.
  Não duvido que a Google deseje pôr em prática o seu famoso lema, "Não fazer mal". I have no doubt Google wish to uphold their famous motto 'Do no evil'.
  Mas o que é que torna o mal necessário? Yet what makes the evil necessary?
• malvado
  Ao longo de todo esse tempo, sofreu atrozmente as consequências de inúmeros actos malvados e cruéis perpetrados por terroristas. They have suffered grievously over that time from countless evil and wicked acts by terrorists.
• maléfico
  O IRA é diferente da ETA, a qual é diferente da Al-Qaeda, mas todos eles são maléficos e têm de ser combatidos e eliminados. The IRA is different from ETA, which is different from al-Qa'ida, but they are all evil and must be faced down and eliminated.
  Colegas, estes crimes repugnantes têm lugar, não nas cadeias do maléfico Hussein, mas em cadeias controladas e administradas por americanos e britânicos. Colleagues, these despicable crimes are not happening in evil Hussein’s prisons, but in US- and British-controlled and run prisons.
  Senhor Presidente, não podemos cruzar os braços, é nosso direito e nossa obrigação evitar que esse dinheiro obtido de forma vil sirva os maléficos propósitos do terrorismo. Mr President, we cannot stand by, we have the right and the obligation to prevent this appropriated money being used for the evil purposes of terrorism.
• mau
  Durante este encontro, ao décimo dia, ele afirmou: "Sempre pensei que o homem é mau ... agora, não tenho a certeza" . During this meeting, on the tenth day, he said, 'I always thought that man is evil... now I am not sure'.
  É a estigmatização sistemática do Homem, considerado mau, e sobretudo do homem ocidental e europeu. It is the systematic stigmatisation of Man as a supposedly evil entity, especially the Western and European variety.
  A ética não consiste em colar etiquetas no que é bom ou mau, certo ou errado, mas constitui um instrumento para nos ajudar a tomar decisões difíceis. Ethics is not about labelling things as good or evil, or good or bad; rather they are a tool to help us as we make difficult choices.

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

Related words

• devil
• Devil
• Seville
• evildoing
• weevil
• bedevil
• devilish
• evilness
• devil-may-care