(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.
Unblemished
Definition:
(a.) Not blemished; pure; spotless; as, an unblemished reputation or life.
Example Sentences:
(1) He is learning to live with the regrets - it is a chastening experience after a 45-year unblemished business career.
(2) In the first round, against an man with an unblemished record from his previous 21 fights, Froch began with a lightning flurry that rocked Pascal.
(3) Complete safety of the patient and unblemished success without recurrence or complication may be assured after inguinal herniorrhaphy as an out-patient if uncompromising intimate attention is paid to the surgical technique in which local anesthesia, polyvinyl ester mesh, and rectus abdominis tendon transfer are used instead of coaptive techniques, and if the post-operative regimen of immediate post-operative ambulation and unrestricted activity is employed.
(4) A further nine, built relatively recently which have unblemished safety records, will be shut by 2022 as part of Germany's energiewende march from nuclear to renewables.
(5) But does she harbour concerns herself that other athletes, even those with unblemished skin, might be doping?
(6) This investigation examined various factors which may influence the production of unblemished, rapid-curing, clear acrylic resin.
(7) Although this is true of any space debris removal system, doubts remain because China does not have an unblemished record in anti-satellite weaponry.
(8) Ross, he said bitterly, made crude remarks to Andrew Sachs, while Stourton delivered 10 years' unblemished service to the BBC: "He was suspended.
(9) He held an “unblemished flying record”, she said, after flying 18,000 hours since he joined the carrier in 1981.
(10) The nurse who was found to have concealed her colleague Pauline Cafferkey’s raised temperature before she tested positive for Ebola risked her life for others in Sierra Leone and has an otherwise unblemished record, a tribunal has heard.
(11) For the root of these practices of secrecy appears to be a perverse kind of historical narcissism, a desire for a Whiggish gaze into an unblemished national past that leads to our time.
(12) The defence case was simpler still: Harris, one of the most prolific and enduring entertainers of modern times, had an unblemished record from 60 years in showbusiness and should not be condemned on only the word of the victims, who were liars and fantasists or else gravely mistaken.
(13) But George Osborne is reportedly dedicated to ensuring a male succession and the Lib Dems deserve credit from all anti-feminists, not just for rallying round one notorious, but senior, groper against his numerous female accusers, but for Clegg’s unblemished success rate in keeping Lib Dem women out of the cabinet.
(14) In his former role, he only ever had to worry about his own stance and his own conscience, which he could keep clean and unblemished – safe in the knowledge that his frontbench colleagues were doing the dirty work of compromise that might actually get things done.
(15) Sven Lindqvist , in his A History of Bombing, for instance, writes of how the evils Europeans perpetrated in their colonies prefigured the violence they would commit against each other at home.No European power, Britain least of all, has clean hands or can tell its 20th-century history as a series of unblemished triumphs, such leftwing history tells us.
(16) The UK's record on holding war crimes inmates is not unblemished.
(17) As recent events have shown, I leave my political career with my head held high and my integrity unblemished,” the MP for Maitland said, in an apparent reference to her appearance at Icac.
(18) A number of respondents said their harassers were allowed to remain in post; some moved to other institutions without facing any formal investigation or disciplinary action, leaving them with an unblemished employment record and the opportunity to continue preying on students elsewhere.
(19) Vora, 32, from London, is the latest Observer reader to have found that eBay protects buyers at the expense of sellers and that a long , unblemished record can count for nothing when a transaction goes wrong.
(20) It is difficult to fathom why a lender would rather advance 95% loan-to-value to a first-time buyer with no track record than 50% to an older borrower with a 40-year unblemished track record.” Halifax expects UK property prices to end this year up about 8% – right at the top of the 4%-8% forecast it issued a year ago.