The phrase "do something evil" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is commonly used to describe someone's action or behavior that is considered morally wrong or immoral. Example: The villain's plan was to do something evil, causing harm to innocent civilians in the city.
What better retaliation than to do something evil and make it look like Putin is possibly at fault?
Comey said last week: "In their minds, the murderers and accomplices of Germany, and Poland, and Hungary, and so many, many other places didn't do something evil.
In the passage which became contentious, he said: "In their minds, the murderers and accomplices of Germany, and Poland, and Hungary, and so many, many other places didn't do something evil".
Well, perhaps, but as the US TV talk-show host John Oliver said recently, on another vitally important but soporific-sounding topic – that of net neutrality – "if you want to do something evil, put it inside something that sounds incredibly boring …" So what is the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann)?
Since God is essentially omnipotent, omniscient, perfectly good, and eternal, it is clear that God is not free to weaken himself, to become ignorant, to do something evil, or to destroy himself.
As HBO's "Last Week Tonight" host (and two-time Crunchies emcee) John Oliver said in a rousing call to action last night, "cable companies have figured out the great truth of America: if you want to do something evil, put it in something boring".
All teenagers hide things, and if — like Michael Carneal, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold — they are doing something evil, then they will work even harder to hide it.
Bobby did something evil, but he wasn't evil, and we – our government and army – needed to take responsibility for him.
And numerous state laws offer whistle-blower protection to both government and private sector idealists who believe their employers are doing something evil.
Esmar Cifuentes, the Guatemalan detainee, worried that when "my family comes to see me … my children might think I did something evil like kill somebody".
Only when it comes to matters like shooting children do American conservatives shy away from suggesting that someone is doing something evil because he is an evil person.
