Synonyms for evil

noun

1. The quality of being evil

   sin, wickedness, depravity, crime, sinfulness, corruption, vice, immorality, iniquity, knavery, perversity, badness, villainy, vileness, baseness, meanness, infamy, heinousness, enormity, criminality, nefariousness, malignity, impiety, malevolence, viciousness, wrong, degeneracy, debauchery, decadence, looseness, lewdness, licentiousness, dissoluteness, wantonness, grossness, turpitude, wrongdoing, darkness, foulness, degradation, worm in the apple, the devil within one, obscenity, profligacy, devilry, diabolism, fiendishness.

   Antonyms virtue*, good, goodness.

2. A harmful or malicious action

   ill, harm, injury, damage, mischief, misfortune, wrong, scandal, calamity, pollution, contamination, catastrophe, blow, disaster, plague, curse, outrage, atrocity, abomination, foul play, ill wind*, crying shame*, machinations of the Devil*.

modified

1. Morally bad

   immoral, wicked, sinful, corrupt, diabolical, satanic, sinister, heinous, atrocious, monstrous, loathsome, foul, repugnant, despicable, malevolent, malignant; see also wicked 1.

2. Unpropitious

   destructive, calamitous, disastrous; see harmful, ominous, sinister. See syn. study at wicked.