Evil synonyms
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Part of speech:
Appropriate to a devil, especially in degree of wickedness or cruelty.
Suggesting or threatening harm or evil:
(--- Baseball) Outside the foul lines:
(Obs.) Changed from a sound condition to an unsound one; spoiled; contaminated; rotten
Severe and distressing:
(Informal) Extremely pleasing to the senses; sensuously enjoyable:
Extremely immoral or cruel:
Having a harmful influence:
Causing loathing; disgusting; abhorrent; detestable
The property of being heinous.
Persistent, intense ill will or desire to harm others; great malice
An offense against God, religion, or good morals
Immoral behavior
Of, characteristic of, or like Satan; devilish; infernal; diabolic
The state of being wicked; evil disposition; immorality.
sinfulness
(Uncountable) The property of being sinful.
(Genetics) The presence in the genetic code of multiple codons for the same amino acid.
(Archaic) A leading astray morally
Dishonest or crafty dealing.
The state or characteristic of being nefarious.
Not in conformity with accepted principles of right and wrong behavior, specif., depraved
(Informal) Very unappealing; ugly:
Malevolent behavior.
The quality of being evil
the devil within one
The quality of being evil
Causing repugnance; distasteful; offensive; disagreeable
Tending or likely to cause destruction
An offense against morality; sin
Bribery or similar dishonest dealings
Exceptionally bad; abominable:
The fact or state of being villainous
virtue (antonym)
Concerning or involving calamity, disastrous.
Extremely bad; terrible:
The quality of being perverse.
An evil or criminal act that is publicly known.
A monstrous offense or evil; an outrage.
(Uncountable) The state or characteristic of being wanton; recklessness, especially as represented in lascivious or other excessive behavior.
An instance of this
Black magic; witchcraft
machinations of the Devil
A harmful or malicious action
Not right or fair; unjust.
the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice
A depraved act or practice
A character representing generalized or particular vice in English morality plays.
Gross immorality or injustice; wickedness.
The quality, state, or fact of being criminal
Lack of respect or dutifulness, as toward a parent
A literary movement especially of late 19th-century France and England characterized by refined aestheticism, artifice, and the quest for new sensations.
A relaxed state regarding principles or accuracy.
diabolism
Dealings with the Devil or devils, as by sorcery or witchcraft
The property of being licentious.
Looseness of morals; wantonness, licentiousness.
goodness (antonym)
help (related)
Deserving to be despised; contemptible
good (antonym)
anathematic
Having the characteristic of anathema
Morally bad; corrupt; perverted
imprecatory
That imprecates
Harmful or malicious in intent or effect.
A cause of harm, ruin, or death:
belial
(Bible, proper --- person) Wickedness as an evil force: Deut. 13:13
Morally unprincipled; shameless.
Unpleasant or annoying:
Bad-tempered or malicious
The quality of being evil
The quality of being evil
(Chemistry) Decomposition of a compound, especially complex substances such as polymers and proteins, by stages, exhibiting well-defined intermediate products.
(Countable) Careless wastefulness.
fiendishness
The quality of being fiendish.
Something that causes suffering; trouble:
Moral wrong; evil
A particular form of hurt, damage, or loss:
(Law) Money claimed by, or ordered paid to, a person to compensate for injury or loss caused by the wrong of the opposite party or parties
A cause or source of harm, damage, or annoyance
Intentionally violent or injurious behavior, especially that suggestive of a criminal act.
harmful (related)
ominous (related)
Harmful to living things; injurious to health:
pernicious.bad
Infectious or epidemic:
Extremely violent or injurious; cruel:
A condition of pain, suffering, or distress:
Full of or exhibiting faults or errors:
Malicious; spiteful:
A wrong or wicked act; crime, sin, etc.
That which is unjust, immoral, or improper:
(Uncountable) Violation of standards of behavior.
An obscene remark, act, event, etc.
A reaction of shame, disgrace, outrage, etc. caused by such an act, person, or thing
Abhorrence; disgust.
(Archaic) Sorrowful; wretched
Anything from which a start is made; basis
Any extreme misfortune bringing great loss and sorrow; disaster
An ulcerlike sore, esp. in the mouth: thought to be an immune reaction
A source or cause of evil; a scourge:
A person supposedly possessed by a demon
An utter failure
A sense of impending evil or misfortune.
The act of imprecating evil, etc. on someone
Harmful or malicious nature or quality.
malum
A number or quantity having a value that is intermediate between other numbers or quantities, especially an arithmetic mean or average.
An instance of this; unlucky accident; mishap; mischance
Attitude or position of attack
perniciousness
The condition of being pernicious; destructiveness
The back or rear of something; specif., the side, as of a coin or medal, not bearing the main image or design
The state of being unrighteous.
(Rare) To invoke (evil) upon (someone); curse
decent (antonym)
moral (antonym)
sinless (antonym)
auspicious (antonym)
virtuous (antonym)
upright (antonym)
honest (antonym)
morality (antonym)
Characterized by iniquity; wicked.
Sinful; guilty.
Having a harmful effect; injurious:
Causing damage or harm; injurious.
Causing or tending to cause injury; harmful:
Injurious; harmful
Not favorable; not auspicious.
Having or showing opposition; adverse:
Full of despite.
Causing or deserving hate; loathsome; detestable; odious
(Law) Done with malice.
Showing ill will; malicious
Full of or showing spite; purposefully annoying; malicious
An act of mischief, cruelty, or witchcraft.
Representation of devils or demons, as in paintings or fiction.
A wicked act or wicked behavior
Sinfulness
An often fatal disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, transmitted to humans usually by fleas that have bitten infected rats or other rodents. &diamf3; Bubonic plague , the most common type, is characterized by the tender, swollen lymph nodes called buboes, fever, clotting abnormalities of the blood, and tissue necrosis. An epidemic of bubonic plague in fourteenth-century Europe and Asia was known as the Black Death.
A small whip used to inflict punishment.
Misfortune or wretchedness:
right (related)
luck (related)
attitude (related)
worm in the apple
The quality of being evil
The act or process of polluting or the state of being polluted, especially the contamination of soil, water, or the atmosphere by the discharge of harmful substances.
(Linguistics) A process whereby words with related meanings come to have similar sounds.
A complete failure; a fiasco:
A mass of blossoms:
Resentful anger aroused by a violent or offensive act, or an instance of this:
An appalling or atrocious act, situation, or object, especially an act of unusual or illegal cruelty inflicted by an armed force on civilians or prisoners.
A harmful or malicious action
Full of guile; deceitfully or treacherously cunning.
Having an exceedingly bad reputation; notorious:
maliciously
Lacking in conscience or moral principles; unscrupulous.
The quality of being unjust or unfair; lack of justice
malefaction
Wrongdoing; crime
The premeditated and deliberate commission of a criminal act with knowledge of its harmfulness or reckless indifference to its harmfulness and without justification or excuse.
Served without milk or cream:
Producing or breeding infectious disease.
Subtly sly and tempting.
One that is greatly reviled, loathed, or shunned:
crying-shame
(Idiomatic) A situation that is considered to be a disgrace, or deplorable.
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