Definition of evil

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Evil (a.) Having qualities tending to injury and mischief; having a nature or properties which tend to badness; mischievous; not good; worthless or deleterious; poor; as, an evil beast; and evil plant; an evil crop..

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Wrongdoing :: Wrongdoing (n.) Evil or wicked behavior or action.
Weevil :: Weevil (n.) Any one of numerous species of snout beetles, or Rhynchophora, in which the head is elongated and usually curved downward. Many of the species are very injurious to cultivated plants. The larvae of some of the species live in nuts, fruit, and grain by eating out the interior, as the plum weevil, or curculio, the nut weevils, and the grain weevil (see under Plum, Nut, and Grain). The larvae of other species bore under the bark and into the pith of trees and various other plants, as th
Evil :: Evil (n.) malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil, the scrofula..
Exorcism :: Exorcism (n.) The act of exorcising; the driving out of evil spirits from persons or places by conjuration; also, the form of conjuration used..
Bedevilled :: Bedevilled (imp. & p. p.) of Bedevi.
Diffame :: Diffame (n.) Evil name; bad reputation; defamation.
Struggle :: Struggle (n.) Great labor; forcible effort to obtain an object, or to avert an evil..
Vaudeville :: Vaudeville (n.) A kind of song of a lively character, frequently embodying a satire on some person or event, sung to a familiar air in couplets with a refrain; a street song; a topical song..
Demonomania :: Demonomania (n.) A form of madness in which the patient conceives himself possessed of devils.
Undevil :: Undevil (v. t.) To free from possession by a devil or evil spirit; to exorcise.
Venom :: Venom (n.) Spite; malice; malignity; evil quality. Chaucer.
Snout :: Snout (n.) The anterior prolongation of the head of weevils and allied beetles.
Demoniac :: Demoniac (n.) One of a sect of Anabaptists who maintain that the demons or devils will finally be saved.
Expect :: Expect (v. t.) To look for (mentally); to look forward to, as to something that is believed to be about to happen or come; to have a previous apprehension of, whether of good or evil; to look for with some confidence; to anticipate; -- often followed by an infinitive, sometimes by a clause (with, or without, that); as, I expect to receive wages; I expect that the troops will be defeated..
Promise :: Promise (v. i.) To afford hopes or expectation; to give ground to expect good; rarely, to give reason to expect evil..
Bermuda Grass :: Bermuda grass () A kind of grass (Cynodon Dactylon) esteemed for pasture in the Southern United States. It is a native of Southern Europe, but is now wide-spread in warm countries; -- called also scutch grass, and in Bermuda, devil grass..
Tempter :: Tempter (n.) One who tempts or entices; especially, Satan, or the Devil, regarded as the great enticer to evil..
Provide :: Provide (v. i.) To procure supplies or means in advance; to take measures beforehand in view of an expected or a possible future need, especially a danger or an evil; -- followed by against or for; as, to provide against the inclemency of the weather; to provide for the education of a child..
Sorrow :: Sorrow (n.) The uneasiness or pain of mind which is produced by the loss of any good, real or supposed, or by diseappointment in the expectation of good; grief at having suffered or occasioned evil; regret; unhappiness; sadness..
Melancholy :: Melancholy (a.) Producing great evil and grief; causing dejection; calamitous; afflictive; as, a melancholy event..
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