evil

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Adjective

1. Intending to harm; malevolent.
   • an evil plot to brainwash and even kill innocent people
2. Morally corrupt.
   • If something is evil, it is never mandatory.
   • Do you think that companies that engage in animal testing are evil?
3. Unpleasant, foul (of odor, taste, mood, weather, etc.).
4. Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous.
5. Having harmful qualities; not good; worthless or deleterious.
   • an evil beast; an evil plant; an evil crop
6. Undesirable; harmful; bad practice.
   • Global variables are evil; storing processing context in object member variables allows those objects to be reused in a much more flexible way.

Noun

1. Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good.
   • The evils of society include murder and theft.
   • Evil lacks spirituality, hence its need for mind control.
2. Something which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; something which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; harm; injury; mischief.
3. A malady or disease; especially in combination, as in king's evil, colt evil.

Adverb

1. wickedly, evilly, iniquitously
2. injuriously, harmfully; in a damaging way.
3. badly, poorly; in an insufficient way.
   • It went evil with him.

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