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e·vil (

adj. e·vil·er, e·vil·est

1. Morally bad or wrong; wicked: an evil tyrant.

2. Causing ruin, injury, or pain; harmful: the evil effects of a poor diet.

3. Characterized by or indicating future misfortune; ominous: evil omens.

4. Bad or blameworthy by report; infamous: an evil reputation.

5. Characterized by anger or spite; malicious: an evil temper.

1. The quality of being morally bad or wrong; wickedness.

2. That which causes harm, misfortune, or destruction: a leader's power to do both good and evil.

3. An evil force, power, or personification.

4. Something that is a cause or source of suffering, injury, or destruction: the social evils of poverty and injustice.

adv. Archaic

In an evil manner.

[Middle English, from Old English yfel; see wap- in Indo-European roots.]

evil·ly adv.

evil·ness n.

evil [ˈiːv^əl]

adj

1. morally wrong or bad; wicked an evil ruler

2. causing harm or injury; harmful an evil plan

3. marked or accompanied by misfortune; unlucky an evil fate

4. (of temper, disposition, etc.) characterized by anger or spite

5. not in high esteem; infamous an evil reputation

6. offensive or unpleasant an evil smell

7. Slang good; excellent

1. the quality or an instance of being morally wrong; wickedness the evils of war

2. (sometimes capital) a force or power that brings about wickedness or harm evil is strong in the world

3. (Medicine / Pathology) Archaic an illness or disease, esp scrofula (the king's evil)

adv

(now usually in combination) in an evil manner; badly evil-smelling

[Old English yfel, of Germanic origin; compare Old Frisian evel, Old High German ubil evil, Old Irish adbal excessive]

evilly adv

evilness n

Evil

See Also: ACTION, CRUELTY

All sin is a kind of lying —St. Augustine
At first the evil impulse is as fragile as the thread of a spider, but eventually it becomes as tough as cart ropes —Babylonian Talmud
Bad as a rotten potato —Charlotte Brontë
Corruption is like a ball of snow, when once set a roll, it must increase —Charles Caleb Colton
The Devil … like influenza he walks abroad —W. H. Auden
Evil actions like crushed rotten eggs, stink in the nostrils of all —Bartlett’s Dictionary of Americanisms
Evil … a quality some people are born with, like a harelip —Ross Macdonald
Evil as dynamiting trout —Robert Traver
Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree —Ethiopian proverb
Evil, like parental punishment, is not intended for itself —Josepiz Albo
Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers on the road. Both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived —Charles Caleb Colton
Evils, like poisons, have their uses, and there are diseases which no other remedy can reach —Thomas Paine
He’s like a fox, grey before he’s good —Thomas Fuller
Immorality in a house is like a worm in a plant —Babylonian Talmud
Immoral, like plying an alcoholic with liquor —Anon
Obscene as cancer —Wilfred Owens
Our sins, like our shadows when day is in its glory, scarce appear; toward evening, how great and monstrous they are! —Sir John Suckling
(He is a man of splendid abilities, but utterly corrupt. He shines and stinks like rotten mackerel by moonlight —John Randolph
Sin is a sort of bog; the farther you go in the more swampy it gets —Maxim Gorky
Sins black as night —Robert Lowell
So awful [a crime] it was like an atrocity picture or one of Foxe’s lives of the martyrs —Jonathan Valin
(You’re) soft and slimy … like an octopus. Like a quagmire —Jean-Paul Sartre
Vice is like a skunk that smells awfully rank, when stirred up by the pole of misfortune —Bartlett’s Dictionary of Americanisms
Vice, like virtue, grows in small steps —Jean Racine
Vice repeated is like the wandering wind, Blows dust in others’ eyes, to spread itself —William Shakespeare
Wrong as stealing from the poor box —Anon

ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms

Noun	1.	evil - morally objectionable behavior wickedness, immorality, iniquity evildoing, transgression - the act of transgressing; the violation of a law or a duty or moral principle; "the boy was punished for the transgressions of his father" devilry, deviltry - wicked and cruel behavior foul play - unfair or dishonest behavior (especially involving violence) irreverence, violation - a disrespectful act sexual immorality - the evil ascribed to sexual acts that violate social conventions; "sexual immorality is the major reason for last year's record number of abortions"
	2.	evil - 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 bad, badness - that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency; "take the bad with the good" Four Horsemen - (New Testament) the four evils that will come at the end of the world: conquest rides a white horse; war a red horse; famine a black horse; plague a pale horse
	3.	evil - the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice; "attempts to explain the origin of evil in the world" evilness malevolency, malice, malevolence - the quality of threatening evil malignance, malignancy, malignity - quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will balefulness, maleficence, mischief - the quality or nature of being harmful or evil immorality - the quality of not being in accord with standards of right or good conduct; "the immorality of basing the defense of the West on the threat of mutual assured destruction" worst - the greatest damage or wickedness of which one is capable; "the invaders did their worst"; "so pure of heart that his worst is another man's best" nefariousness, vileness, ugliness, wickedness - the quality of being wicked reprehensibility - being reprehensible; worthy of and deserving reprehension or reproof villainousness, villainy - the quality of evil by virtue of villainous behavior perverseness, perversity - deliberately deviating from what is good; "there will always be a few people who, through macho perversity, gain satisfaction from bullying and terrorism" wrongdoing, error - departure from what is ethically acceptable vice, frailty - moral weakness good, goodness - moral excellence or admirableness; "there is much good to be found in people"
Adj.	1.	evil - morally bad or wrong; "evil purposes"; "an evil influence"; "evil deeds" bad - having undesirable or negative qualities; "a bad report card"; "his sloppy appearance made a bad impression"; "a bad little boy"; "clothes in bad shape"; "a bad cut"; "bad luck"; "the news was very bad"; "the reviews were bad"; "the pay is bad"; "it was a bad light for reading"; "the movie was a bad choice" immoral - deliberately violating accepted principles of right and wrong offensive - unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses; "offensive odors" wrong - contrary to conscience or morality or law; "it is wrong for the rich to take advantage of the poor"; "cheating is wrong"; "it is wrong to lie" unrighteous - not righteous; "an unrighteous man"; "an unrighteous law" wicked - morally bad in principle or practice good - morally admirable
	2.	evil - having the nature of vice vicious wicked - morally bad in principle or practice
	3.	evil - having or exerting a malignant influence; "malevolent stars"; "a malefic force" malefic, malevolent, malign maleficent - harmful or evil in intent or effect

evil

noun

1. wickedness, bad, wrong, vice, corruption, sin, wrongdoing, depravity, immorality, iniquity, badness, viciousness, villainy, sinfulness, turpitude, baseness, malignity, heinousness, maleficence We are being attacked by the forces of evil.

2. harm, suffering, pain, hurt, misery, sorrow, woe those who see television as the root of all evil

3. act of cruelty, crime, ill, horror, outrage, cruelty, brutality, misfortune, mischief, affliction, monstrosity, abomination, barbarity, villainy Racism is one of the greatest evils in the world.

adjective

1. wicked, bad, wrong, corrupt, vicious, vile, malicious, base, immoral, malignant, sinful, unholy, malevolent, heinous, depraved, villainous, nefarious, iniquitous, reprobate, maleficent the country's most evil criminals

2. harmful, painful, disastrous, destructive, dire, catastrophic, mischievous, detrimental, hurtful, woeful, pernicious, ruinous, sorrowful, deleterious, injurious, baneful (archaic) Few people would not condemn slavery as evil.

3. demonic, satanic, diabolical, hellish, devilish, infernal, fiendish This place is said to be haunted by an evil spirit.

4. offensive, nasty, foul, unpleasant, vile, noxious, disagreeable, putrid, pestilential, mephitic There was an evil stench in the room.

5. unfortunate, unlucky, unfavourable, ruinous, calamitous, inauspicious people of honour who happen to have fallen upon evil times

Quotations
"So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear,"
"Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost;"
"Evil be thou my Good" [John Milton Paradise Lost]
"Evil be to him who evil thinks (Honi soit qui mal y pense)" Motto of the Order of the Garter
"What we call evil is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark" [Henry Ford]
"The evil that men do lives after them" [William Shakespeare Julius Caesar]
"Evil alone has oil for every wheel" [Edna St. Vincent Millay Mine the Harvest]
"Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof" Bible: St. Matthew

Proverbs
"Choose the lesser of two evils"
"See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil"

Translations

evil [ˈiːvl]

A. ADJ

1. (= wicked) [person, deed, thought] → malvado; [reputation] → de malvado; [spirit] → maligno, maléfico; [influence] → maléfico, funesto; [place, plan] → diabólico; [hour, times] → funesto; [effect] → nocivo
to put the evil eye on sb, give sb the evil eye → echar el mal de ojo a algn
an evil spell → un maleficio
evil tongues may say that → las malas lenguas dirán que ...
he had his evil way with her → se aprovechó de ella, se la llevó al huerto(hum)
the evil weed (= tobacco) → el vicio(hum)

2. (= nasty) [smell, taste] → horrible
to put off the evil day → posponer el día funesto
to have an evil temper → tener un genio endiablado

B. N

1. (= wickedness) → mal m
the conflict between good and evil → el conflicto entre el bien y el mal
there wasn't a trace of evil in her → no había ni un rastro del maldad en ella
the forces of evil → las fuerzas del mal
to speak evil of sb → hablar mal de algn

2. (= harmful thing) → mal m
the lesser of two evils → el menor de dos males
a necessary evil → un mal necesario
social evils → males mpl sociales

evil [ˈiːv^əl]

adj (= wicked) [person] → malveillant(e); [thing] → mauvais(e)
to put off the evil hour, to put off the evil day → retarder l'échéance fatidique

(= bad things) → mal m

(= bad aspect, feature)
one of the evils of modern society → l'un des fléaux de la société moderne
the evils of alcohol → les dangers de l'alcool
a necessary evil → un mal nécessaire
the lesser evil → le moindre mal
the lesser of two evils → le moindre mal
evil-smelling [ˈiːv^əlsmɛlɪŋ] adj → nauséabond(e)
evil spirit n → esprit m malfaisant

evil

→ Böse(s) nt; good and evil in Victorian England → das Gute und das Böse im viktorianischen England; the conflict between good and evil → der Kampf zwischen Gut und Böse; there was never any trace of evil in her → an ihr war nie etwas Böses; the evil in the universe → das Übel in der Welt; to wish somebody no evil → jdm nichts Böses wünschen; to speak evil of somebody → schlecht von jdm reden

(= bad thing or activity) → Übel nt; a necessary evil → ein notwendiges Übel; the lesser/greater of two evils → das kleinere/größere Übel; social evils → soziale Missstände pl; a sermon on the evils of drink → eine Predigt über das Laster des Trinkens

adj

(= bad, wicked) person, tongue → böse; example, influence, reputation → schlecht; evil deed → Übeltat f; the country’s most evil terrorists → die schlimmsten Terroristen des Landes; with evil intent → mit or aus böser Absicht; the evil weed (hum: = tobacco) → das Kraut (inf); (= smoking) → das Rauchen; to put off the evil day/moment → den schrecklichen Tag/Augenblick hinauszögern

(= devilish) spirit, spell, power → böse; place → verhext

(= unpleasant) smell, taste → übel

evil:

evildoer

n → Übeltäter(in) m(f), → Bösewicht m (dated)

evil eye

n the evil → der böse Blick; to give somebody the evil → jdn mit dem bösen Blick ansehen

evil:

evil-minded

adj → bösartig

evil-smelling

adj → übel riechend

evil [ˈiːvl]

1. n → male m
the lesser of two evils → il minore tra due mali

2. adj (person, deed) → malvagio/a, cattivo/a; (reputation, influence) → pessimo/a; (spirit, spell, influence) → malvagio/a; (unhappy, hour, times) → infausto/a

evil

adj evil [ˈiːvl]

very bad; wicked; sinful evil intentions; an evil man; He looks evil; evil deeds; an evil tongue. boos شِرّير، سَيِّء зъл špatný, zlý ond; ondskabsfuld böse κακός, μοχθηρός malo, malvado õel, paheline خبیث؛ شیطانی paha mauvais רַע दुष्ट, बुरा, पापी zao, loš rossz jahat vondur, illur cattivo, maligno 邪悪な 사악한 piktas, blogas, nedoras ļauns; slikts jahat slecht ond; syndig zły mau rău злой; порочный zlý hudoben zao ond, ondskefull, syndig, elak ชั่วร้าย çok kötü, ahlâksız 邪惡的 злий, лихий اخلاقا مذموم xấu xa 邪恶的

1 wrong-doing, harm or wickedness He tries to ignore all the evil in the world; Do not speak evil of anyone. kwaad, slegtheid شَر، سوء злина zlo, něco zlého ondskab das Böse κακία mal, maldad kurjus خباثت؛ بدی pahuus mal רוֹעַ बुराई, दुष्टता zlo gonoszság, rossz kejahatan e-ð illt; mein, böl male 邪悪 악 blogis ļaunums; sliktums tidak baik kwaad onde, ondskap zło mal (de) rău зло zlo zlo loše ondska, ont สิ่งที่ชั่วร้าย kötülük, fenalık 弊病, 錯事 лихо, зло بدی ، برائی điều xấu 弊病

2 anything evil, eg crime, misfortune etc London in the eighteenth century was a place of crime, filth, poverty and other evils. bedorwenheid, sonde سوء، شَر зло pohroma ondskab das Übel κακό desgracia, plaga pahe, ebakoht شرارت؛ پلیدی paha fléau רֶשָׁע बुराई zlo, zloba, pokvarenost, pakost bűn keburukan mein, böl male 害悪 해악, 폐해, 재앙 yda, blogybė ļaunums; nelaime perkara jahat kwaad onde, ulykke zło mal flagel порок nešťastie zlo zlo ondska, gissel, hemsökelse ความเลวร้าย kötülük, felâket 不幸，邪惡 біда, нещастя ناسازگار، ناخوشگوار tệ nạn 不幸，邪恶

evil-

evil-minded; evil-smelling. sleg مُؤْذٍ، فاسِد، كَريه лош zlo- ondskabs- übel-... κακός, άσχημος (ως α΄ συνθ.) mal- paha-, kuri- بد pahan- mal- הָרַע दुष्टात्मा pokvaren rossz buruk illa- mal- 悪い 악의 pikta-, bjaurus, bjauriai ļaun-; slikts jahat kwaad- ond- źle, brzydko, nieładnie mal- rău- зло- zlo- zlo-... loše- illa- ซึ่งมีจิตใจชั่วร้าย kötü... 邪惡的 зло- بری ذہنیت والا xấu 邪恶的

adv evilly

boosaardig بصورةٍ شِرّيرَه лошо zle ondt böse με κακία con maldad halvasti بطور بد یا اهریمنی pahasti avec malveillance בְּרִשעוּת दुष्टतापूर्वक zlo, pakosno rosszul secara buruk með illgirni malevolmente 邪悪に 나쁘게 piktai, nedorai ļauni; slikti dengan jahat kwaadaardig ondskapsfullt źle malevolamente cu răutate злонамеренно zle hudobno zlo elakt, ondskefullt, illa อย่างเลว; อย่างชั่วร้าย şeytanca 邪惡地 нечесно; мерзотно بدی سے một cách ác ý 邪恶地

n evilness

slegtheid, goddeloosheid شَر злоба zlo ondskab die Bosheit κακία maldad halbus شرارت؛ بدی pahuus méchanceté רִשעוּת दुष्टता zloba, pakost gonoszság keburukan illgirni/-kvittni cattiveria 邪悪さ 사악함 nedorumas, piktavališkumas ļaunums kejahatan slechtheid ondskap zło maldade răutate злонамеренность zlo hudobnost zlo ondskefullhet ควมชั่วร้าย kötülük, kötü niyetlilik 邪惡，罪惡 мерзотність بدی điều ác 邪恶，罪恶

n evil-ˈdoer

a wicked or sinful person. boosdoener, kwaaddoener فاعِل الشَّر، شِرّير престъпник zločinec bæst; djævel; uhyre der Übeltäter κακοποιό στοιχείο malhechor pahategija آدم شریر؛ تبهکار pahantekijä méchant/-ante עוֹשֶׂה רָע कुकर्मी zlobnik, zlotvor gonosztevő orang jahat illvirki, ódæðismaður malfattore; malvagio 悪人 사악한 사람 piktadarys, nusidėjėlis ļaundaris orang jahat boosdoener en som gjør onde ting, ond person złoczyńca, winowajca malvado răufăcător злодей zločinec hudobnež zla osoba missdådare, ogärningsman คนที่ทำสิ่งที่ชั่วร้าย günahkâr 作惡的人，壞人 злочинець; грішник برائی کرنے والا kẻ bất lương 作恶的人，坏人

evil → شرير zlý ond böse μοχθηρός malvado paha malveillant zao malvagio 悪い 사악한 duivels ond zły mau злой ond ชั่วร้าย kötücül ác 邪恶的

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