Sentence examples for evil usages from inspiring English sources
The rights (the so-called "evil usages") of Catalan lords were such that they could abuse their serfs at will.
The term, pronounced "gree-gree," technically refers to a voodoo amulet, composed of graveyard dirt, eyes of newt, and other readily available local ingredients, meant to ward off evil spells; in looser usage, gris-gris translates roughly to the dark magic itself, which can be directed in favor of, or against, a particular party's interests.
It's addictive, a bit evil, and has skyrocketed in usage over the last few days since it launched.
In precise usage, "enormity" means a great evil, not just a large size.
On the general subject of demoralization, he finds a long decline of usage in terms like "faith," "wisdom," "ought," "evil" and "prudence," and a sharp rise in what you might call social science terms like "subjectivity," "normative," "psychology" and "information".
That sense of the awfulness of goodness (the word, in its seventeenth-century usage, means "awe-inspiring") was as powerful an engine of Milton's work as the glamour of evil.
Popular usage sometimes creates new proverbs from old ones; e.g., the biblical proverb, "The love of money is the root of all evil" has become "Money is the root of all evil".
