evil
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(satellite adjective) tending to cause great harm |
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Synonyms: harmful, injurious |
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(noun) morally objectionable behavior |
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Synonyms: immorality, iniquity, wickedness |
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Related Words: devilry, deviltry, enormity, evildoing, foul play, irreverence, transgression, violation |
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(adjective) morally bad or wrong; "evil purposes"; "an evil influence"; "evil deeds" |
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Synonyms: wicked |
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Antonyms: good |
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(noun) the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice: "attempts to explain the origin of evil in the world" |
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Synonyms: evilness |
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Related Words: balefulness, error, frailty, immorality, maleficence, malevolence, malevolency, malice, malignance, malignancy, malignity, mischief, nefariousness, perversity, reprehensibility, vice, vileness, villainousness, villainy, wickedness, worst, wrongdoing |
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Antonyms: good |
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(noun) 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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Related Words: Four Horsemen, bad, badness |
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(satellite adjective) having the nature of vice |
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Synonyms: depraved, vicious |
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(satellite adjective) having or exerting a malignant influence; "malevolent stars"; "a malefic force" |
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Synonyms: malefic, malevolent, malign |
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