as in bad
that which is morally unacceptable
our free will allows us to choose between good and evil
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as in harmful
causing or capable of causing harm
drank an evil potion
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as in immoral
not conforming to a high moral standard; morally unacceptable
their evil deeds rank among the worst in history
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as in ugly
causing intense displeasure, disgust, or resentment
she refused to eat olives or anything which had their evil flavor
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Recent Examples of evil
Tribune News Service,
Baltimore Sun,
26 June 2026
God did not create evil; therefore, evil was not created and thus cannot possibly have law or authority behind it.
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Lisa Rennie Sytsma,
Christian Science Monitor,
26 June 2026
Kory Grow,
Rolling Stone,
27 June 2026
Historic opportunity but key is disarming Hezbollah, evil terrorists who have killed Americans.
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Benjamin Weinthal,
FOXNews.com,
26 June 2026
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Noun
Her series are inevitably female-centric and like the Brontës, who wrote 200 years and a few miles away, her work excavates the drama of daily life and the tension between good and evil that sings below any surface.
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Tribune News Service,
Baltimore Sun,
26 June 2026
God did not create evil; therefore, evil was not created and thus cannot possibly have law or authority behind it.
—
Lisa Rennie Sytsma,
Christian Science Monitor,
26 June 2026
Adjective
Load was a Number One seller in 1996, and its comelier evil twin, ReLoad, repeated the feat a year and a half later.
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Kory Grow,
Rolling Stone,
27 June 2026
Historic opportunity but key is disarming Hezbollah, evil terrorists who have killed Americans.
—
Benjamin Weinthal,
FOXNews.com,
26 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for evil
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In addition to public goods, AI will also create public bads.
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Naturally, the meeting is a flop because no one was prepared, and their spontaneous ideas are frankly fireable-offense bad (a baguette bag shaped like a baguette for Paris?
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The plasma process also produced very little smoke or tar, reducing harmful secondary pollutants typically associated with biomass conversion and making the technology a cleaner way to produce renewable solid fuel.
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At the same time, its flowers attract beneficial predatory insects, such as ladybugs and parasitic wasps, that naturally hunt harmful garden pests.
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Court records show that 60-year-old Bradley Kyle Martin, of Dearborn Heights, is charged with using a computer or internet to communicate with another person to commit a crime and accosting children for immoral purposes.
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These monsters—its antitheses—constitute that part of our nature that urges us to be sensible and strong, and that inclines us to see the life drive as trivial, weak, sentimental and immoral.
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With one notable exception, everyone over there has nothing but ugly things to say about their main villa counterparts.
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Women superheroes have always activated an ugly segment of the internet.
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Brian Kilmeade views the semiquincentennial as an opportunity to reflect on the nation's founding courage and vision, while Lawrence Jones highlights America's continuous improvement despite past wrongs.
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There was also a list of things that had been done wrong in the murder, including not removing the shell casings from the scene, Rouse said.
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Others develop dangerous fluctuations in blood pressure and abnormal heart rhythms because the autonomic nervous system becomes affected.
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Sometimes, the streets appear glittering; other times, seedy and dangerous.
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Jazzlyn Johnson, a spokesperson for Johnson, said in an email that Sanchez-Munoz had been charged with one count of second-degree felony murder, five counts of unlawful use of a weapon and five counts of armed criminal action.
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The policies Goode violated include unlawful harassment discrimination policy, professional conduct, code of conduct and mobile data access.
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French broadcaster French Pierron was under fire for calling childbirth 'a disgusting moment.
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How to make the moment scary but watchable, disgusting but entrancing?
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“Evil.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evil. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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