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evil🔊

Intending to harm; malevolent.

Morally corrupt.

Unpleasant, foul (of odor, taste, mood, weather, etc.).

Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous.

💬 Quotations
“ […] with bandits and robbers roving over the land in these evil times of famine and war, how can it be said that this one or that stole anything? Hunger makes thief of any man.”

(obsolete) Having harmful qualities; not good; worthless or deleterious.

(computing, programming, slang) 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.

(obsolete) A malady or disease; especially in combination, as in (king's evil), (colt evil).

(obsolete) Wickedly, evilly, iniquitously.

(obsolete) Injuriously, harmfully; in a damaging way.

💬 Quotations
And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.

(obsolete) Badly, poorly; in an insufficient way.

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