English-Spanish translations for evil

• mal
  Puede que sean un mal necesario, pero son un mal a fin de cuentas. They may be a necessary evil, but they are an evil.
  No me cabe la menor duda de que Google desea defender su famoso lema "No hagas el mal". I have no doubt Google wish to uphold their famous motto 'Do no evil'.
  Pero, ¿qué hace que ese mal sea necesario? Yet what makes the evil necessary?
• malo
  Mugabe es un hombre malo, un matón y un asesino. Mugabe is an evil man, a bully and a murderer.
  Lo malo no es lo que dicen de su causa, sino lo que dicen de sus oponentes". The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.'
  Cuando de lo que se trata es de proteger los datos bancarios y financieros, lo bueno de repente se convierte en malo. When it is an issue of protecting bank and financial data, the good suddenly turns into the evil.
• malvado
  Si se trata a alguien como a un malvado, actuará como si fuera un malvado. If you treat people as evil, they will act as if they are evil.
  por escrito. - "No seas malvado" es el conocido lema de Google. in writing. - 'Don't be evil' is the well-known motto of Google.
  Parece ser que Google no será tan malvado en el futuro. Apparently, Google will be less evil in the future.
• maldad
  La guerra y los conflictos a menudo sacan a relucir una maldad inimaginable en estas personas. War and conflict often bring unimaginable evil out of such people.
  Todo lo demás es un «pretexto para la maldad». Everything else is a 'pretext for evil'.
  Solo podremos descansar cuando hayamos puesto fin a la maldad. We can only rest when we have put a stop to the evil.
• maléfico
  Se sisea el término «dúmping social» como si se tratara de un conjuro maléfico, denotando otra estratagema perversa de Bruselas. The words ‘social dumping’ are hissed like an evil incantation, denoting one more wicked stratagem from Brussels.
  Demuestra que, si la Unión actuara de forma concertada, podría poner fin a lo que es claramente un comercio maléfico. It illustrates how, if the Union were to act in a concerted manner, it could bring to an end what is clearly an evil trade.
• malévolo
  Internet puede compararse con un cuchillo que es útil para cortar pan, pero que también puede utilizarse para causar daños psicológicos graves en los niños mediante contenido malévolo. The Internet may be likened to a knife that is useful for cutting bread, but it may also be used to inflict grievous psychological harm on children through evil content.
• perverso
  Pero el mundo es más perverso. The world is more evil than that.
  Es un gobierno cruel y perverso". It's a cruel and evil government'.
  Señor Presidente, Sadam Husein es perverso. Mr President, Saddam Hussein is 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

Related words

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