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Evilness

The condition or quality of being evil; badness; viciousness; malignity; vileness; as, evilness of heart; the evilness of sin.

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Bad 76% connected

Bade.

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Badness 76% connected

The state of being bad.

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Immorality 76% connected

The state or quality of being immoral; vice.

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Balefulness 76% connected

The quality or state of being baleful.

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Error 76% connected

A wandering; a roving or irregular course.

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Frailty 76% connected

The condition quality of being frail, physically, mentally, or morally, frailness; infirmity; weakness of resolution; liableness to be deceived or se…

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Maleficence 76% connected

Evil doing, esp. to others.

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Malevolence 76% connected

The quality or state of being malevolent; evil disposition toward another; inclination to injure others; ill will. See Synonym of Malice.

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Malice 76% connected

Enmity of heart; malevolence; ill will; a spirit delighting in harm or misfortune to another; a disposition to injure another; a malignant design of…

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Malignance 76% connected

Alt. of Malignancy

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Malignancy 76% connected

The state or quality of being malignant; extreme malevolence; bitter enmity; malice; as, malignancy of heart.

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Malignity 76% connected

The state or quality of being malignant; disposition to do evil; virulent enmity; malignancy; malice; spite.

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Mischief 76% connected

Harm; damage; esp., disarrangement of order; trouble or vexation caused by human agency or by some living being, intentionally or not; often, calamit…

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Perverseness 76% connected

The quality or state of being perverse.

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Perversity 76% connected

The quality or state of being perverse; perverseness.

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Ugliness 76% connected

The quality or state of being ugly.

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Vice 76% connected

A defect; a fault; an error; a blemish; an imperfection; as, the vices of a political constitution; the vices of a horse.

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Villainy 76% connected

The quality or state of being a villain, or villainous; extreme depravity; atrocious wickedness; as, the villainy of the seducer.

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Wickedness 76% connected

The quality or state of being wicked; departure from the rules of the divine or the moral law; evil disposition or practices; immorality; depravity;…

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Worst 76% connected

Bad, evil, or pernicious, in the highest degree, whether in a physical or moral sense. See Worse.

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Wrongdoing 76% connected

Evil or wicked behavior or action.

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Evil 74% connected

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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Evil 74% connected

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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Evil 66% connected

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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Evil 66% connected

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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Synonym 1

Evil 92% connected

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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Goodness 94% connected

The quality of being good in any of its various senses; excellence; virtue; kindness; benevolence; as, the goodness of timber, of a soil, of food; go…

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Goodness 94% connected

The quality of being good in any of its various senses; excellence; virtue; kindness; benevolence; as, the goodness of timber, of a soil, of food; go…

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