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Evil   /ˈivəl/   Listen
Evil

adjective
1.
Morally bad or wrong.  "An evil influence" , "Evil deeds"
2.
Having the nature of vice.  Synonym: vicious.
3.
Having or exerting a malignant influence.  Synonyms: malefic, malevolent, malign.  "A malefic force"
noun
1.
Morally objectionable behavior.  Synonyms: immorality, iniquity, wickedness.
2.
That which causes harm or destruction or misfortune.
3.
The quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice.  Synonym: evilness.



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"Evil" Quotes from Famous Books



... Jack on the shoulder. It was one of the men who had boarded the ship. An evil leer passed over Thurman's ...
— The Ocean Wireless Boys And The Naval Code • John Henry Goldfrap, AKA Captain Wilbur Lawton
... the secular and religious education of the young. Why should not the priests of the Church of England and the ordained Wesleyan ministers be permitted to exchange pulpits as they may think fit? There is little danger that a Wesleyan minister would proclaim unsound doctrine. Such an evil is much more shortly and sharply rectified by Wesleyan discipline, which the Courts of Law uphold, than by any mere legal action to which the ...
— The Wesleyan Methodist Pulpit in Malvern • Knowles King
... princes for the purpose of assuaging these contentions. But in truth, as the same science deals with contraries, and the power of reason can be used to opposite ends, and at the same the human mind is more inclined to evil, it happens with the practisers of this science that they usually devote themselves to promoting contention rather than peace, and instead of quoting laws according to the intent of the legislator, violently strain the language thereof to effect ...
— The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury • Richard de Bury
... believe that whereas God's nature is divine, man's nature is depraved. God is good, but men are evil. God, according to this view, exists in heaven, remote from us. We exist in sin, remote from Him, in hell or next door to it. Human beings are completely separated from the Divine Being. The only possible connection between men and God is that brought about ...
— An Interpretation of Friends Worship • N. Jean Toomer
... ever, 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrate, The bird of dawning singeth all night long. And then, they say, no evil spirit walks; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, no witch hath power to charm,— So hallowed and ...
— Betty's Bright Idea; Deacon Pitkin's Farm; and The First Christmas - of New England • Harriet Beecher Stowe


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