Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good.
The word "evil" is correct and usable in written English. You can use it to describe something that is morally wrong, harmful or malicious. For example, "His actions were driven by an evil desire for revenge.".
We've bought into the charity line that these full-on formats are a necessary evil.
Polish farmers, who before accession were tearing their shirts and warning that the evil Germans and French would buy up Polish land for nothing, are emerging as the biggest beneficiaries of the EU.
Since all it takes for evil to prevail is one good seven-year-old to do nothing, I continued to crack the case wide open: "And what about the tooth fairy?" I got up to tell my sister, but was waylaid by an adult offering me chocolate cake in exchange for my silence.
The poster for these current live shows, A Room With a Stew, features two oversized quotes: one from the Daily Telegraph calling him "toxic" and another from a Ukip parliamentary candidate describing his routine as "totally evil propaganda… untrue and unfunny".
Hollow A cursed tree is the root of rural evil in this British horror.
"We shall triumph over all this evil that wants to debase our humanity or obstruct our progress as a nation," he vowed.
In his drive to create a new political system in Hungary, Orbán appears to view politics as a zero-sum game where the winner takes all in a fight between good and evil.
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