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Balefulness
The quality or state of being baleful.
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Broader term 2
Having qualities tending to injury and mischief; having a nature or properties which tend to badness; mischievous; not good; worthless or deleterious…
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0% interchangeable
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.
The condition or quality of being evil; badness; viciousness; malignity; vileness; as, evilness of heart; the evilness of sin.
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Derivationally related 2
Causing mischief; harmful; hurtful; -- now often applied where the evil is done carelessly or in sport; as, a mischievous child.
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15% interchangeable
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Causing mischief; harmful; hurtful; -- now often applied where the evil is done carelessly or in sport; as, a mischievous child.
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15% interchangeable
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Doing evil to others; harmful; mischievous.
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Doing evil to others; harmful; mischievous.
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Synonym 2
Evil doing, esp. to others.
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Harm; damage; esp., disarrangement of order; trouble or vexation caused by human agency or by some living being, intentionally or not; often, calamit…
oewn 2023
68% interchangeable
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