Evil

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1. Adjective

Having qualities tending to injury and mischief; having a nature or properties which tend to badness; mischievous; not good; worthless or deleterious; poor; as, an evil beast; and evil plant; an evil crop.

2. Adjective

Having or exhibiting bad moral qualities; morally corrupt; wicked; wrong; vicious; as, evil conduct, thoughts, heart, words, and the like.

3. Adjective

Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous; as, evil tidings; evil arrows; evil days.

4. Noun

Anything which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; anything which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; injury; mischief; harm; -- opposed to good.

5. Noun

Moral badness, or the deviation of a moral being from the principles of virtue imposed by conscience, or by the will of the Supreme Being, or by the principles of a lawful human authority; disposition to do wrong; moral offence; wickedness; depravity.

6. Noun

malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil, the scrofula.

7. Adverb

In an evil manner; not well; ill; badly; unhappily; injuriously; unkindly.

8. Noun

morally objectionable behavior
Vocabulary classified under Law

9. Noun

the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice; "attempts to explain the origin of evil in the world"
Vocabulary classified under Environmental science
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