"evil purposes" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a goal or motivation that is malicious in nature. For example: "He used his power and influence for evil purposes."
At La Cambe, Ratzinger spoke about the German soldiers' Pflicht-blind obedience to duty-which had been exploited for evil purposes.
In the movie, a 17-year-old Ms. Jolie plays a beautiful, gun-toting, kick-boxing, lifelike super-robot who runs away from her creators when she learns she's been designed for evil purposes.
Surely these are orthodox opinions, as far as Christianity and science go, but in Williams's supernatural thriller, by generic necessity heterodox, floor chalkings can be lethal, whole buildings can be hidden by conjured-up fog, and evil people are capable of using the Grail for evil purposes.
Democracy and dictatorship cannot long exist side by side; if they do, the bad will drive out the good, either through a military conquest of the democracies or by forcing them, in self-defence, as we have been forced in recent years, not indeed to abandon democracy, but to divert it to evil purposes of organising for strength instead of for wealth.
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It's got to be some nefarious string-puller somewhere doing this evil deed for some evil purpose.
And history has witnessed science put to evil purpose: the Nazi experiments on Jews, biowarfare and the atomic bomb.
He said that in his 40 years of working in the criminal justice system, he had never seen a case so devoid of "criminal intent or evil purpose".
She's aware of the evil purpose of his pursuit, her panic increases, she has no one to turn to, no place to hide, and, as the attack occurs, the camera pulls back to conceal it.
HAMISH ANDERSON Brooklyn To the Editor: To feature the inherently anti-Semitic phrase "the Jewish question" on the cover of the Book Review is a reprehensible act, whether the choice was based on ignorance or evil purpose.
