"evil work" is a perfectly acceptable phrase to use in written English.
You could use it to describe a moral wrong someone has done, e.g., "He performed an evil work by stealing from the homeless man."
Maybe it wouldn't work, and mass killers would nevertheless go on to achieve through their evil work the glory of infamy.
Since the early twentieth century, they had done a good deal of their evil work under the guise of humanitarian uplift.
The book is scanned into the computer as part of a project... and Moloch is released into cyberspace and begins his evil work".
He expects Jean to live forever because she will be taught to understand how the forces of evil work and will be on constant guard against them.
Col. Jerry O'Hara, an American military spokesman in Baghdad, said, "Sadly, this incident again shows that the A.Q.I. terrorists repeatedly risk the lives of innocent women and children to further their evil work".
There are those who seem only too willing to do Isis's evil work for it: the Dallas orchestra which cancelled a concert tour of Europe for fear of players' safety; the immigration officials who prevented a Muslim family entering America; the politicians and commentators who lazily smear all Muslims with the taint of extremism; the cartoonists who portray refugees as rats entering Europe.
Sin and the way evil works into the world, the way violence evolves into people.
Stokes Croft is an open-air graffiti gallery, most notably in the permanent See No Evil works around Nelson Street.
The internet would have been awash with articles calling on him to "articulate a coherent vision", by repudiating New Labour and all its evil works.
So pervasive is this irreverent subculture that the Chinese have a name for it: egao, meaning "evil works" or, more roughly, "mischievous mockery".
There are many points of view among historians, as there should be, about Hitler and Stalin and the comparative study of their evil works.
