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1. Meaning 1 · noun

   Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good.

   “Evil lacks spirituality, hence its need for mind control.”

2. Meaning 2 · noun

   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. Meaning 3 · noun

   A malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil (scrofula).

4. Meaning 4 · adjective

   Intending to harm; malevolent.

   “an evil plot to brainwash and even kill innocent people”

5. Meaning 5 · adjective

   Morally corrupt.

   “Do you think that companies that engage in animal testing are evil?”

6. Meaning 6 · adjective

   Unpleasant, foul (of odour, taste, mood, weather, etc.).

7. Meaning 7 · adjective

   Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous.

8. Meaning 8 · adjective

   Having harmful qualities; not good; worthless or deleterious.

   “an evil beast; an evil plant; an evil crop”

9. Meaning 9 · adjective

   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.”

How this word is used

• Everyday “Evil lacks spirituality, hence its need for mind control.”
• Everyday “an evil plot to brainwash and even kill innocent people”
• General “Do you think that companies that engage in animal testing are evil?”
• General “an evil beast; an evil plant; an evil crop”
• General “Global variables are evil; storing processing context in object member variables allows those objects to be reused in a much more flexible way.”

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