Evil is the opposite of good. We usually think of villains as evil wrong, immoral and nasty on many levels and heroes as good.
Having qualities tending to injury and mischief; having a nature or properties which tend to badness; mischievous; not good; worthless or deleterious; poor;
Noun
morally objectionable behavior
Noun
the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice; "attempts to explain the origin of evil in the world"
Noun
that which causes harm or destruction or misfortune; "the evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones"- Shakespeare
Adjective S.
having or exerting a malignant influence; "malevolent stars"; "a malefic force"
Adjective S.
tending to cause great harm
Adjective
morally bad or wrong; "evil purposes"; "an evil influence"; "evil deeds"
Adjective S.
having the nature of vice
a.
Having qualities tending to injury and mischief; having a
nature or properties which tend to badness; mischievous; not good;
worthless or deleterious; poor; as, an evil beast; and evil plant; an
evil crop.
a.
Having or exhibiting bad moral qualities; morally corrupt;
wicked; wrong; vicious; as, evil conduct, thoughts, heart, words, and
the like.
a.
Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or
calamity; unpropitious; calamitous; as, evil tidings; evil arrows; evil
days.
n.
Anything which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a
being of any good; anything which causes suffering of any kind to
sentient beings; injury; mischief; harm; -- opposed to good.
n.
Moral badness, or the deviation of a moral being from the
principles of virtue imposed by conscience, or by the will of the
Supreme Being, or by the principles of a lawful human authority;
disposition to do wrong; moral offence; wickedness; depravity.
n.
malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil, the
scrofula.
adv.
In an evil manner; not well; ill; badly; unhappily;
injuriously; unkindly.
Evil
A good tree can not bring forth evil fruit.2.
Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, When death's approach is seen so terrible.3.
Because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel.
The owl shrieked at thy birth -- an evil sign.
Evil news rides post, while good news baits.
It almost led him to believe in the evil eye.--
Evil
>Evils which our own misdeeds have wrought.
The evil that men do lives after them.2.
The heart of the sons of men is full of evil.3.
He [Edward the Confessor] was the first that touched for the evil.
Evil
>It went evil with his house.
The Egyptians evil entreated us, and affected us.
Having qualities tending to injury and mischief; having a nature or properties which tend to badness; mischievous; not good; worthless or deleterious; poor;
Anything which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; anything which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; injury; mischief; harm; -- opposed to
In an evil manner; not well; ill; badly; unhappily; injuriously; unkindly.
Usage Examples
'Dallas' hit a chord back in the late Seventies and Eighties because it was the age of greed: here you have this unapologetic character who is mean and nasty and ruthless and does it all with an evil grin. I think people related to JR back then because we all have someone we know exactly like him. Everyone in the world knows a JR.
Art is an attempt to integrate evil.
Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
Anything that isn't opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn't matter.
An evil life is a kind of death.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.
All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Other Usage ExamplesActive Evil is better than Passive Good.
All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.
Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.
Any time you stop looking at evil as a black and white thing, it's helpful. So the fact that there won't be any obligatory Islamic terrorist stereotypes in movies any more, that'd be helpful.
9/11 was a deliberate, carefully planned evil act of the long-waged war on the West by Koran-inspired soldiers of Allah around the world. They hated us before George W. Bush was in office. They hated us before Israel existed. And the avengers of the religion of perpetual outrage will keep hating us.
Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.
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