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noun

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

  Example: 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.

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

adjective

• Intending to harm; malevolent.

  Example: an evil plot to brainwash and even kill innocent people

• Morally corrupt.

  Example: Do you think that companies that engage in animal testing are evil?

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

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

• Having harmful qualities; not good; worthless or deleterious.

  Example: an evil beast; an evil plant; an evil crop

• Undesirable; harmful; bad practice

  Example: Global variables are evil; storing processing context in object member variables allows those objects to be reused in a much more flexible way.

adverb

• Wickedly, evilly, iniquitously

• Injuriously, harmfully; in a damaging way.

• Badly, poorly; in an insufficient way.