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evil - the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice; "attempts to explain the origin of evil in the world" |
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evilness |
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good,
goodness moral excellence or admirableness; "there is much good to be found in people"
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good,
goodness moral excellence or admirableness; "there is much good to be found in people"
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evil morally bad or wrong; "evil purposes"; "an evil influence"; "evil deeds"
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immorality the quality of not being in accord with standards of right or good conduct; "the immorality of basing the defense of the West on the threat of mutual assured destruction"
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malevolence,
malevolency,
malice the quality of threatening evil
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malignance,
malignancy,
malignity (medicine) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death
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balefulness,
maleficence,
mischief the quality or nature of being harmful or evil
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worst the weakest effort or poorest achievement one is capable of; "it was the worst he had ever done on a test"
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nefariousness,
ugliness,
vileness,
wickedness the quality of being wicked
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reprehensibility being reprehensible; worthy of and deserving reprehension or reproof
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villainousness,
villainy a criminal or vicious act
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perverseness,
perversity deliberately deviating from what is good; "there will always be a few people who, through macho perversity, gain satisfaction from bullying and terrorism"
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error,
wrongdoing (baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed
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frailty,
vice moral weakness
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evil - morally objectionable behavior |
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immorality,
wickedness,
iniquity |
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evildoing,
transgression the action of going beyond or overstepping some boundary or limit
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devilry,
deviltry wicked and cruel behavior
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foul play unfair or dishonest behavior (especially involving violence)
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irreverence,
violation a disrespectful act
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sexual immorality the evil ascribed to sexual acts that violate social conventions; "sexual immorality is the major reason for last year's record number of abortions"
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evil - that which causes harm or destruction or misfortune; "the evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones"- Shakespeare |
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bad,
badness that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency; "take the bad with the good"
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four horsemen (New Testament) the four evils that will come at the end of the world: conquest rides a white horse; war a red horse; famine a black horse; plague a pale horse
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evil - morally bad or wrong; "evil purposes"; "an evil influence"; "evil deeds" |
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good thorough; "had a good workout"; "gave the house a good cleaning"
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bad feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad'); "my throat feels bad"; "she felt bad all over"; "he was feeling tough after a restless night"
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immoral deliberately violating accepted principles of right and wrong
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offensive unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses; "offensive odors"
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unrighteous not righteous; "an unrighteous man"; "an unrighteous law"
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wicked morally bad in principle or practice
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wrong based on or acting or judging in error; "it is wrong to think that way"
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evil,
evilness morally objectionable behavior
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atrocious,
flagitious,
grievous,
monstrous provoking horror; "an atrocious automobile accident"; "a frightful crime of decapitation"; "an alarming, even horrifying, picture"; "war is beyond all words horrible"- Winston Churchill; "an ugly wound"
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bad feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad'); "my throat feels bad"; "she felt bad all over"; "he was feeling tough after a restless night"
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black,
dark,
sinister marked by anger or resentment or hostility; "black looks"; "black words"
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corruptive,
perversive,
pestiferous tending to corrupt or pervert
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demonic,
diabolic,
diabolical,
fiendish,
hellish,
infernal,
satanic,
unholy extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell; "something demonic in him--something that could be cruel"; "fires lit up a diabolic scene"; "diabolical sorcerers under the influence of devils"; "a fiendish despot"; "hellish torture"; "infernal instruments of war"; "satanic cruelty"; "unholy grimaces"
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despicable,
slimy,
ugly,
unworthy,
vile,
worthless,
wretched morally reprehensible; "would do something as despicable as murder"; "ugly crimes"; "the vile development of slavery appalled them"; "a slimy little liar"
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devilish,
diabolic,
diabolical,
mephistophelean,
mephistophelian showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil; "devilish schemes"; "the cold calculation and diabolic art of some statesmen"; "the diabolical expression on his face"; "a mephistophelian glint in his eye"
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evil-minded having evil thoughts or intentions
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evil - having the nature of vice |
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vicious |
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wicked morally bad in principle or practice
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