Word Finder - evil

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

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Evil lacks spirituality, hence its need for mind control.

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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.

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

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Intending to harm; malevolent.

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an evil plot to brainwash and even kill innocent people

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Morally corrupt.

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

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

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

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Having harmful qualities; not good; worthless or deleterious.

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an evil beast; an evil plant; an evil crop

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Undesirable; harmful; bad practice

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

There is no evil here.

Fire can be good or evil, depending on where it comes from.

Of all the evil in the world, she feared this the most.

Any clue how a hole in the ground equates to an evil soul?

Apparently, evil is equal opportunity.

Lara sent her an evil look and she shut up.

He was an evil man.

The man waved a knife at her, an evil smile on his lips.

She was stuck with the creature behind the evil in the world.

He will be forever stuck between the two worlds, the good and the evil, without entering either or leaving either behind.

Evil cannot be done in the name of good.

But hate is evil, isn't it?

It was a small but evil cadre.

Deidre wasn't vindictive, but she still didn't fathom the amount of evil in one's heart it took to kill them.

As for adopting the ways which the State has provided for remedying the evil, I know not of such ways.

It was said two of them turned on the others, aligned with evil, and only Andre had the power to kill any of the others.

That is why I should really like to save him from evil and lead him into the path of truth, but evil thoughts of him did not leave me.

Whatever he tried to be, whatever he engaged in, the evil and falsehood of it repulsed him and blocked every path of activity.

She shivered, sensing something truly evil in his monotonous voice and cold hands.

The only human who can help us defeat evil, and you chose him.

From that moment Ivan's subjects noticed a change in his attitude towards them, and attributed it to the evil influence of the Greek princess.

The emergence of Satan as a definite supernatural personality, the head or prince of the world of evil spirits, is entirely a phenomenon of post-exilian Judaism.

All I feel to be good is good; all I feel to be evil is evil.

No--in this case I would rather suffer evil the natural way.

To check this courts were multiplied (there were five, six or more instances), which only multiplied the evil.

It is the duty of all believers to strive to become one or other of these by subduing the flesh, which is the product of Evil, and all motions of the will.

Both the mainland of Greece and the Greek colonies practised human sacrifice, usually as a means towards expulsion of evil.

Between the two aeons there would take place the advent of the Messiah, who would lead the struggle with evil powers which was called " the agonies of the Messiah."

We also know that from earliest times Israel believed in the evil as well as good spirits.

We also read of the " evil spirit " that came upon Saul.

It is impossible to deny Persian influence in the development of this conception, and that the Persian Ahriman (Angromainyu), the evil personality opposed to the good, Ahura Mazda, moulded the Jewish counterpart, Satan.

The figures are no longer abstractions; they are concrete examples of the folly of the bibliophile who collects books but learns nothing from them, of the evil judge who takes bribes to favour the guilty, of the old fool whom time merely strengthens in his folly, of those who are eager to follow the fashions, of the priests who spend their time in church telling "gestes" of Robin Hood and so forth.

We may remark in passing that the retreat was often enlivened, or invaded, by friendly tourists from England, whose " frequent incursions " into Switzerland our recluse seems half to lament as an evil.

See John Clarke, Examination of the Notion of Moral Good and Evil advanced in a late book entitled The Religion of Nature Delineated (London, 1725); Drechsler, Ober Wollaston's Moral-Philosophie (Erlangen, 1802); Sir Leslie Stephen's History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century (London, 1876), ch.

They believed in the existence of two gods, a good (whose son was Christ) and an evil (whose son was Satan); matter is the creation of the evil principle, and therefore essentially evil, and the greatest of all sins is sexual intercourse, even in marriage; sinful also is the possession of material goods, and the eating of flesh meat, and many other things.

One theory is that it is a relic of the early Christian church, symbolizing the battle of life and the triumph of good over evil.

The worship of Baal of Tyre roused a small circle of zealots, and again the Phoenician marriage was the cause of the evil.

All, however much or little preoccupied with worldly business, must fear God, from whom come good things and evil, life, death, poverty and riches.

Complaint was made to Hyrcanus that Herod had violated the law which prohibited the execution of even an evil man, unless he had been first condemned to death by the Sanhedrin.

The London County Council, directly after its establishment, took means to remedy this evil (see London).

Not, of course, that they meant deliberate evil; Pascal expressly credits them with good intentions.

Kindred to this latter view was the position of sundry sects of English fanatics during the Commonwealth, who denied that an elect person sinned, even when committing acts in themselves gross and evil.

In the Avesta, after the separation of the Iranian stock from the Hindu and the rise of Zoroastrianism, which elevated Ormazd to the summit of the Persian theological system, his role was more distinct, though less important; between Ormazd, who reigned in eternal brightness, and Ahriman, whose realm was eternal darkness, he occupied an intermediate position as the greatest of the yazatas, beings created by Ormazd to aid in the destruction of evil and the administration of the world.

Because light is accompanied by heat, he was the god of vegetation and increase; he sent prosperity to the good, and annihilated the bad; he was the god of armies and the champion of heroes; as the enemy of darkness and of all evil spirits, he protected souls, accompanying them on the way to paradise, and was thus a redeemer.

So prognosis became pessimistic, and the therapeutics of the abler men negative, until fresh hopes arose of stemming the tides of evil at their earliest flow.

The evil is of very long standing, for in 1306 the citizens petitioned Edward I.

Within the next few years Lord Holland reaped to the full the reward for all that was good, and whatever was evil, in the training he had given his son.

It was in vain to complain, saying, " Every one that doeth evil is good in the eyes of Yahweh," or " Where is the God of judgment ?

To decrease the evil of lobbying a law was enacted in 1906 which requires that every person employed to promote or oppose the passage of any bill shall file in the office of the secretary of state a written statement showing who has employed him and describing the legislation in respect of which his services are to be rendered; the law also requires the employers of lobbyists to file in the same office within two months after the adjournment of the legislature an itemized statement of all their lobbying expenses, and forbids the employment of a lobbyist for a contingent fee.

Celsus made evil constant in amount as being the correlative of matter.