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Evil   /ˈivəl/   Listen
Evil

adjective
1.
Morally bad or wrong.  "An evil influence" , "Evil deeds"
2.
Having the nature of vice.  Synonym: vicious.
3.
Having or exerting a malignant influence.  Synonyms: malefic, malevolent, malign.  "A malefic force"
noun
1.
Morally objectionable behavior.  Synonyms: immorality, iniquity, wickedness.
2.
That which causes harm or destruction or misfortune.
3.
The quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice.  Synonym: evilness.



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"Evil" Quotes from Famous Books



... not slow in resorting to the arts by which she was accustomed to seek either to avert the evil consequences of her own short-sighted policy, or to gain time to defeat the plans of her opponents.[449] The Huguenots received a deputation consisting of the chancellor, the Marshal de Vieilleville, and Jean de Morvilliers—three of the most influential ...
— History of the Rise of the Huguenots - Volume 2 • Henry Baird
... speak in the world, that they might have My joy fulfilled in themselves. I have given them Thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. I pray not that Thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that Thou shouldest keep them from the evil. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them through Thy truth: Thy word is truth. As Thou hast sent Me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI • Alexander Maclaren
... the sandal tree, imparting (while it falls) its aromatic flavor to the edge of the axe, and the benevolent man rewarding evil with good, would be witty, did ...
— The Jest Book - The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings • Mark Lemon
... probable consequence, she could not reflect without the deepest concern. Her own situation gained in the comparison; for while she could esteem Edward as much as ever, however they might be divided in future, her mind might be always supported. But every circumstance that could embitter such an evil seemed uniting to heighten the misery of Marianne in a final separation from Willoughby—in an immediate and irreconcilable rupture ...
— Persuasion • Jane Austen
... this darksome, foul, and evil-smelling place? Who was that forbidding-looking individual sitting there smoking under that swaying, smoky, dimly-burning, miserable apology for a lamp? And, finally, what had happened that my limbs should feel heavy as lead, and ...
— The Log of a Privateersman • Harry Collingwood


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