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Adjective
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Morally depraved
wicked
bad
wrong
wrongful
immoral
sinful
ungodly
unholy
foul
vile
base
ignoble
dishonorableUS
dishonourableUK
corrupt
iniquitous
depraved
degenerate
villainous
nefarious
sinister
vicious
malicious
malevolent
demonic
devilish
diabolic
diabolical
fiendish
dark
black-hearted
monstrous
shocking
despicable
atrocious
heinous
odious
contemptible
horrible
execrable
low-down
stinking
dirty
shady
warped
bent
rotten
unethical
unlawful
unrighteous
unsavouryUK
unsavoryUS
crooked
dastardly
reprobate
black
damnable
hateful
hellish
infernal
rancorous
satanic
spiteful
wrathful
egregious
flagitious
shadowy
peccable
morally wrong
bad-hearted
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“The lands belonged to an evil King who was extremely self-serving and cruel to the people who lived in the kingdom.”
Adjective
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Carrying an intent to harm
harmful
hurtful
injurious
detrimental
deleterious
inimical
bad
mischievous
pernicious
malignant
malign
baleful
venomous
noxious
poisonous
corrupting
subversive
baneful
calamitous
damaging
dangerous
ill
nocuous
prejudicial
disastrous
destructive
ruinous
malefic
maleficent
prejudicious
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“There is an evil undertone in his charming and sociable demeanor.”
Adjective
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(of a smell or sight) Extremely unpleasant, offensive or repugnant
unpleasant
disagreeable
nasty
horrible
foul
filthy
vile
inclement
abhorrent
abominable
appalling
awful
disgusting
distasteful
dreadful
fulsome
gross
hideous
horrendous
horrid
loathsome
nauseating
nauseous
noisome
obnoxious
obscene
offensive
rancid
repellant
repellent
repugnant
repulsive
revolting
scandalous
sickening
ugly
mephitic
pestilential
putrid
more ❯
“Did you just let off that evil and obnoxious smell in the elevator?”
Adjective
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Marked by something that makes conditions difficult or inconvenient
wet
rainy
stormy
squally
blustery
cold
freezing
foggy
“That was a truly evil storm that we had to brave in order to cross the border.”
Adjective
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Falling on hard or difficult times
unlucky
unfortunate
unfavorableUS
unfavourableUK
adverse
unhappy
disastrous
catastrophic
painful
ruinous
sorrowful
calamitous
unpropitious
inauspicious
dire
woeful
ominous
menacing
threatening
baleful
sinister
portentous
foreboding
direful
minatory
doomy
ill
ill-boding
bodeful
unpromising
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“She walked among the poor and desperate who had endured evil times under the reign of the despot.”
Adjective
▲
Contemptuously ridiculing or mocking someone or something
scoffing
mocking
sardonic
scornful
cynical
sneering
satirical
derisive
caustic
contemptuous
jeering
disparaging
taunting
sharp
ironical
biting
cutting
mordant
acerbic
satiric
disrespectful
trenchant
offensive
mean
contumelious
scorching
corrosive
arrogant
bitter
salty
carping
acid
acerb
irascible
backhanded
acrimonious
brusque
needling
saucy
scurrilous
chaffing
twitting
austere
captious
ornery
disillusioned
cussed
severe
weisenheiming
hostile
snarling
smart-alecky
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Noun
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A force deemed to be profoundly malevolent or morally corrupt in nature
wickedness
bad
badness
wrong
wrongdoing
sin
sinfulness
ungodliness
immorality
vice
iniquity
turpitude
degeneracy
vileness
baseness
perversion
corruption
depravity
villainy
nefariousness
atrocity
heinousness
maleficence
malevolence
malignity
viciousness
devilishness
shadiness
crookedness
devilry
diablerie
impiety
peccability
peccancy
more ❯
“There is an evil coming, and we are powerless to stop its impending charge towards us.”
Noun
▲
(count noun) Something which prevents a being from experiencing happiness or good in their lives, or inflicting harm
harm
pain
hurt
misery
sorrow
suffering
trauma
trouble
disaster
detriment
destruction
loss
misfortune
catastrophe
calamity
act of cruelty
affliction
brutality
cruelty
horror
mischief
woe
ruin
evildoing
hardship
ills
injury
adversity
damage
problem
more ❯
“Perhaps, in a twisted way, this necessary evil will serve as motivation to make the world a better place.”
Noun
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(count noun) The negative impact of an action or event
abomination
atrocity
obscenity
outrage
enormity
crime
monstrosity
barbarity
barbarism
torment
curse
bane
wrong
offenseUS
vulgarity
indecency
offenceUK
coarseness
impurity
smut
lewdness
bawdiness
smuttiness
profanity
vileness
foulness
affront
filthiness
dirtiness
blueness
more ❯
“The underlying evil of his lies will soon be laid bare, and he will have nowhere to hide.”
Noun
▲
An indifference to suffering, or pleasure in inflicting suffering
cruelty
brutality
savagery
inhumanity
barbarity
heartlessness
viciousness
atrocity
ruthlessness
sadism
callousness
mercilessness
barbarousness
savageness
wickedness
fiendishness
harshness
atrociousness
barbarism
ferocity
hardheartedness
bloodthirstiness
bestiality
pitilessness
wantonness
unkindness
brutishness
fierceness
inhumanness
cruelness
severity
heinousness
depravity
coldness
murderousness
truculence
baseness
animality
iniquity
unfeelingness
abuse
spite
remorselessness
badness
nastiness
malice
meanness
ferity
coarseness
ferociousness
spitefulness
blackness
insensitiveness
persecution
despotism
devilishness
insensibility
malignity
masochism
rancourUK
rancorUS
relentlessness
torture
venom
inclemency
vindictiveness
cold-bloodedness
hard-heartedness
cold-heartedness
black-heartedness
lack of charity
lack of regard
lack of sympathy
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Noun
▲
Intention to harm or deprive in an illegal or immoral way
malice
spite
malevolence
bitterness
animosity
hatred
hostility
venom
enmity
spitefulness
antipathy
resentment
animus
hate
malignity
spleen
grudge
viciousness
maliciousness
rancorUS
rancourUK
nastiness
malignancy
meanness
malignance
cattiness
vindictiveness
hatefulness
dislike
gall
despite
cruelty
bile
repugnance
umbrage
wickedness
acerbity
vengefulness
poison
maleficence
devilry
devilment
evilness
revenge
despitefulness
backbiting
mordacity
mischievousness
implacability
malintent
ill will
ill feeling
bad blood
evil intentions
evil intent
more ❯
Noun
▲
The rabble, the masses
rascality
devilry
roguery
mischievousness
mischief
shenanigans
wickedness
devilment
deviltry
diablerie
roguishness
impishness
waggery
devilishness
knavery
waggishness
hob
naughtiness
wrong
wrongdoing
misconduct
tomfoolery
misbehaviourUK
misbehaviorUS
friskiness
frolicsomeness
waywardness
playfulness
sportiveness
prankishness
atrocity
ill
transgression
catastrophe
fault
harm
hurt
injury
misdoing
misfortune
outrage
sabotage
vandalism
prank
gag
funny business
monkey business
high jinks
dirty trick
more ❯
Noun
▲
A cause of great distress or misfortune
curse
affliction
misfortune
trouble
trial
bane
misery
calamity
burden
tribulation
scourge
ordeal
hardship
plague
torment
disaster
blight
blow
problem
nemesis
setback
cancer
canker
vexation
cross
pestilence
poison
cross to bear
bitter pill
menace
more ❯
Noun
▲
(pathology) An abnormal condition of a human, animal or plant that causes discomfort or dysfunction
disease
disorder
illness
complaint
condition
sickness
affliction
ailment
malady
infection
infirmity
plague
upset
blight
bug
indisposition
trouble
cancer
canker
abnormality
affection
ail
contagion
debility
defect
disability
complication
decrepitude
epidemic
ill
lurgy
pestilence
scourge
virus
ache
bane
contamination
curse
distemper
distemperature
endemic
fever
pathosis
problem
sickliness
syndrome
wog
attack
breakdown
Cancer
coath
collapse
convulsions
feebleness
fit
flu
haemorrhageUK
hemorrhageUS
inflammation
misery
rot
seizure
spell
stroke
unhealthiness
unsoundness
visitation
medical condition
silent killer
ill health
more ❯
Noun
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Criminal acts against people committed as part of an orchestrated campaign
crimes against humanity
cannibalism
dehumanisationUK
dehumanizationUS
enslavement
ethnic cleansing
extrajudicial punishment
genocide
massacre
outrage
political repression
rape
religious persecution
savageries
state terrorism
summary execution
torture
unethical human experimentation
unjust imprisonment
use of WMDs
war crimes
enormity
holocausts
Noun
▲
A grossly malformed animal or plant
monstrosity
freak
horror
monster
hideousness
mutant
abnormality
atrocity
dreadfulness
frightfulness
miscreation
mutation
anomaly
atrociousness
awfulness
ghastliness
grisliness
gruesomeness
horridness
obscenity
repulsiveness
abnormity
abortion
heinousness
hellishness
loathsomeness
malformation
ogre
teratism
deformity
freakishness
grotesqueness
outrage
freak of nature
lusus naturae
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Noun
▲
Something or someone that one vehemently dislikes
anathema
abomination
abhorrence
aversion
abhorrent
bane
bugbear
hateful
pariah
antipathy
detestation
execration
hate
monstrosity
odious
offensive
outrage
repellent
repugnant
disgrace
enemy
bête noire
loathing
horror
atrocity
curse
torment
crime
shame
plague
more ❯
Noun
▲
A negative consequence or downside of a given course of action
drawback
disadvantage
obstacle
snag
hindrance
impediment
handicap
difficulty
weakness
problem
hurdle
hitch
flaw
limitation
shortcoming
obstruction
catch
fault
downside
barrier
failing
complication
defect
imperfection
trouble
deficiency
hiccup
disbenefit
deterrent
minus
check
pitfall
inconvenience
liability
detriment
issue
curb
nuisance
lack
negative
debit
strike
incommodity
discouragement
disability
ill
damper
stumbling block
weak point
weak spot
fly in the ointment
spanner in the works
monkey wrench in the works
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Noun
▲
Evils that are hidden
Pandora's box
confusion
ill
can of worms
hornet's nest
snake in the grass
complexity
complication
troublesome problem
snake pit
mess
kettle of fish
hard nut to crack
problem
unpredictable situation
trouble
dog's breakfast
quagmire
hot water
entanglement
snarl
complicated situation
difficult situation
Gordian knot
complex problem
mare's nest
difficulty
quandary
headache
predicament
snafu
Noun
▲
A deliberate act, typically as part of a systematic campaign, that causes human suffering or death on a large scale
crime against humanity
genocide
enormity
outrage
savagery
war crime
holocaust
Noun
▲
Physical harm that impairs the value, usefulness, or normal function of something
damage
harm
injury
destruction
detriment
impairment
devastation
hurt
loss
mutilation
ruin
defacement
defilement
desecration
disfigurement
scarring
suffering
vandalism
vandalization
wreckage
affliction
attrition
battering
crushing
deterioration
erosion
friction
havoc
shattering
vitiation
wrecking
abrasion
abuse
annihilation
corrosion
debasement
degeneration
detrition
ill
ruination
spoilage
adulteration
breakage
corruption
depreciation
deprivation
infliction
marring
mishap
waste
accident
adversity
bane
blemish
blow
bruise
casualty
catastrophe
contamination
disservice
disturbance
hardship
illness
knockout
mischief
outrage
pollution
ravage
ruining
wound
wrong
cave-in
wear and tear
more ❯
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