adj
Intending to harm; malevolent.
an evil plot to brainwash and even kill innocent people
Communism, socialism, and Islamism are part of the Axis of evil
Morally corrupt.
If something is evil, it is never mandatory.
Do you think that companies that engage in animal testing are evil?
Unpleasant, foul (of odor, taste, mood, weather, etc.).
1660, John Harding (translator), Paracelsus his Archidoxis, London: W.S., Book 7, “Of an Odoriferous Specifick,” p. 100, An Odoriferous Specifick […] is a Matter that takes away Diseases from the Sick, no otherwise then as Civet drives away the stinck of Ordure by its Odour; for you are to observe, That the Specifick doth permix it self with this evil Odour of the Dung; and the stink of the Dung cannot hurt, no[r] abide there […]
He awoke in an evil temper […]
Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous.
The owl shrieked at thy birth,—an evil sign;
[…] he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel:
Having harmful qualities; not good; worthless or deleterious.
an evil beast; an evil plant; an evil crop
A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit.
noun
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.
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.
evils which our own misdeeds have wrought
The evil that men do lives after them.
A malady or disease; especially in combination, as in king's evil, colt evil.
[The disease]Tis call'd the Euill.
He [Edward the Confessor] was the first that touched for the evil.
adv
wickedly, evilly, iniquitously
O what of Gods then boots it to be borne, / If old Aveugles ſonnes ſo euill heare?
injuriously, harmfully; in a damaging way.
And many ſhall follow their pernicious wayes, by reaſon of whom the way of trueth ſhall be euill ſpoken of:
badly, poorly; in an insufficient way.
It went evil with him.
But (as the Poet ſaith) Malè ſarta gratia, nequicquam coit, & reſcinditur: Friendſhip, that is but euill peeced, will not ioine cloſe, but falleth aſunder againe: