| evil | |
| 1. adj. Intending to harm; malevolent. | |
| an evil plot to kill innocent people | |
| 2. adj. Morally corrupt. | |
| Do you think that companies that engage in animal testing are evil? | |
| 3. adj. Unpleasant, foul (of odour, taste, mood, weather, etc.). | |
| 4. adj. Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous. | |
| 5. adj. (obsolete) Having harmful qualities; not good; worthless or deleterious. | |
| an evil beast; an evil plant; an evil crop | |
| 6. adj. (computing, programming, slang) undesirable; harmful; bad practice | |
| Global variables are evil; storing processing context in object member variables allows those objects to be reused in a much more flexible way. | |
| 7. n. Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good. | |
| The evils of society include murder and theft. | |
| Evil lacks spirituality, hence its need for mind control. | |
| 8. n. Anything which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; anything which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; injury; mischief; harm. | |
| 9. n. (obsolete) A malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil (scrofula). | |
