Evil - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |ˈiːvl|  American pronunciation of the word evil
Brit.  |ˈiːvl|  British pronunciation of the word evil

noun

- morally objectionable behavior (syn: immorality, iniquity, wickedness)
- that which causes harm or destruction or misfortune
the evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones
- the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice
attempts to explain the origin of evil in the world

adjective

- having the nature of vice (syn: vicious)
- having or exerting a malignant influence (syn: malefic, malevolent, malign)

Extra examples

She drank an evil potion.

The city has fallen on evil days.

It was an evil omen.

The battle of good versus evil

...our free will allows us to choose between good and evil...

It was the dread of evil that first cemented society together.

The evil which is the gluttony is not so bad as the evil which corrupts morals.

They condemned slavery as evil.

She wanted to protect her children from the evils of the outside world.

Poverty is one of the greatest social evils of our time.

Of two evils choose the less. посл.

...it's absurd to suggest that there's an equality in the evil committed by the Nazis and the crimes of the government of that Asian country...

...it's completely alien to her nature to wish evil of anyone...

In the book the evil witch curses the villagers.

Her essay discusses the dichotomy between good and evil in the author's novels.

Word forms

noun
singular: evil
plural: evils
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