(a.) 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.
(a.) Having or exhibiting bad moral qualities; morally corrupt; wicked; wrong; vicious; as, evil conduct, thoughts, heart, words, and the like.
(a.) Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous; as, evil tidings; evil arrows; evil days.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil, the scrofula.
(adv.) In an evil manner; not well; ill; badly; unhappily; injuriously; unkindly.
Example Sentences:
(1) King Salman of Saudi Arabia urged the redoubling of efforts to “eradicate this dangerous scourge and rid the world of its evils”.
(2) More evil than Clocky , the alarm clock that rolls away when you reach out to silence it, or the Puzzle Alarm , which makes you complete a simple puzzle before it'll go quiet, the Money Shredding Alarm Clock methodically destroys your cash unless you rouse yourself.
(3) To confront this evil – and defeat it, standing together for our values, for our security, for our prosperity.” Merkel gave a strong endorsement of Cameron’s reform strategy, saying that Britain’s demands were “not just understandable, but worthy of support”.
(4) "Our black, Muslim and Jewish citizens will sleep much less easily now the BBC has legitimised the BNP by treating its racist poison as the views of just another mainstream political party when it is so uniquely evil and dangerous."
(5) Richard now is presented, albeit somewhat inconsistently, as evil in response to social ostracism because of his ugly deformities.
(6) One view of these results stems from the belief that contraception is a necessary evil and the pill is the closest to a 'natural' sex act.
(7) Answer, citing Edmund Burke: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” This is a very British suicide.
(8) So that you know he's evil, he is dressed like a giant, bedraggled grey duckling, in a fur coat made up of bits of chewed-up wolf.
(9) How World of Warcraft train future soldiers One odder digression sees the two discussing whether or not MMORPGs, video games like World of Warcraft, are evil.
(10) The deputy prime minister branded the treatment meted out to the four-year-old by his mother, Magdelena Luczak, and stepfather, Mariusz Krezolek, as evil and vile, but suggested it was up to the whole of society to stop such tragedies.
(11) We make mistakes, and fall victim to the temptations of pride, and power, and sometimes evil.
(12) Questioned as to whether Google needs to alter its mission statement, which was twinned with the company mantra “don’t be evil, for the next stage of company growth in an interview with the Financial Times , Page responded: “We’re in a bit of uncharted territory.
(13) "I have been an evil witch, but now I can set light to the house and die happy."
(14) But at some point I realized that it's precisely because they continuously justify so much violence and aggression from their side that they have such a boundless compulsion to depict others as the Uniquely Primitive and Violent Evil.
(15) For here we see the depravity to which man can sink, the barbarity that unfolds when we begin to see our fellow human beings as somehow less than us, less worthy of dignity and life; we see how evil can, for a moment in time, triumph when good people do nothing."
(16) The US said it had removed North Korea – once a member of George Bush's axis of evil – from the terror list to breathe life into the stalled nuclear negotiations and would continue to pressure Pyongyang to resolve the abduction issue.
(17) As he described, with something approaching relish, the horrifying effect of a desperate eurozone willing to destroy the British economy, our industry and our society, purely to protect itself, I was reminded of the epic Last Judgement by John Martin, now in the Tate, which depicts the terrifying chaos as the good are separated from the evil damned.
(18) Channel One also branded Berezovsky an "evil genius," and a report on his demise quoted a senior member of the ruling United Russia , Vyacheslav Nikonov, saying he found it hard to believe the news was true.
(19) In recent months there have been series of protests against the intensifying campaign, with one Catholic leader denouncing the cross removals as an “evil act” .
(20) Time and again they said to me: ‘I knew I shouldn’t, but I had to weigh it up against what was happening, and it was the lesser of two evils.’ Years later many of these women are still ashamed of themselves.
Jinx
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) It took us 35 hours to get to London because of delays, so I think we’re jinxed,” said Jillian Masselos, who is pregnant.
(2) "Very serious allegations have been made and this is no run-of-the-mill, high jinx affair," he said this afternoon.
(3) 4.21am BST Red Sox 8 - Cardinals 1, top of 9th May Low (@TeamMassMayhem) @NotCoachTito @LengelDavid YOU JINXED IT!
(4) "Do I switch the lights on and risk jinxing the Reds?
(5) I'm not saying this was a jinx or anything, I'm just saying.
(6) Imagine the high-jinx when a man who likes meatballs has to eat, um, cod.
(7) Over the course of a jinxed shoot and a mixed critical reception he discovered that being King of the World was not all it was cracked up to be.
(8) Ah now, it'd be unfair for me to try to jinx one team over the other.
(9) I’m sitting in a windowless room with two gigantic pictures of [The Jinx’s villain] Robert Durst on the wall,” he explains on the phone from New York.
(10) Although given that my only other bet was on England beating Algeria 5-1, I think I've probably jinxed them."
(11) She chose her university, in part, because of its strong reputation for sport and Rosenfeld names the tennis star Martina Navratilova as an inspiration, although an injury jinxed her own hopes of competing at a top level.
(12) But the crowd are prepared to wait... 10.09pm BST I don't normally publish emails like this, but we've had a lot of them in the past week I'm banned by my highly superstitious family from watching live coverage of the Olympics because I jinx Team GB," says Claire Robins.
(13) "After such a victorious and uplifting welcome of Lima love, the contaminated jinx had its way via a simple restaurant meal of penne pasta and tomato," he wrote.
(14) But the resurgence would never be complete, the jinx not entirely broken, until they had defeated their rivals.
(15) When the San Francisco 49ers seemed to respond to the power outage by starting to play like they could actually steal the game away from the Baltimore Ravens, we wanted to give a certain amount of credit to the lights, call it momentum or a jinx or whatever.
(16) Fielding says the new book is about "a whole new idea for a phase of her life that I can't jinx by describing it".
(17) 1.53am GMT Kansas City here we come Of course in the other game last night, Sporting KC finally overcame their Houston Dynamo jinx to not just get to the MLS Cup final but to ensure that they'll be hosting it (having been to a great All Star Week there, I can tell you they'll do a great job too).
(18) They've been rather spoiled this week after lifting that home elimination game jinx.
(19) Lucy Beaumont: 'I'm paying three times the price for what looks like Elton John's outhouse' Lucy Beaumont I'm jinxed with accommodation in Edinburgh.
(20) Updated at 7.28pm GMT 7.23pm GMT 90 min +5: “Okay, with three minutes to go I think I’m just about ready to put my Niall Mullen voodoo doll away after his fate enticing attempt to jinx things at half time,” writes Phil Sawyer.