evil
Usage
What are other ways to say evil?
Evil applies to that which violates or leads to the violation of moral law: evil practices. Ill now appears mainly in certain fixed expressions, with a milder implication than that in evil: ill will; ill-natured. Wicked implies willful and determined doing of what is very wrong: a wicked plan. Bad is the broadest and simplest term: a bad man; bad habits.
Example Sentences
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“I actually don’t think that they’re the evil mechanism that other people do,” Levinson said.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 20, 2026
Or is Juneteenth a celebration of the strength and excellence that both grew out of the great evil that slavery represented and in spite of it, an evil that still afflicts the nation in 2026?
From Salon • Jun. 19, 2026
He’s not the least qualified or the most evil.
From Slate • Jun. 18, 2026
It takes quite a while to reveal that Daniel has stolen from the evil corporation thumb drives containing classified files about the history of alien encounters, dating back to events in Roswell, N.M., in 1947.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
You can’t really tell someone that you asked him to lunch to let him know that you didn’t think of him as evil.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
Vocabulary lists containing evil
Bush's Address on 9/11
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"Frankenstein" and "How Frankenstein Began"
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"The Flying Machine" by Ray Bradbury
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