evil

evil
    adj 1: morally bad or wrong; "evil purposes"; "an evil
           influence"; "evil deeds" [ant: {good}]
    2: having the nature of vice [syn: {evil}, {vicious}]
    3: having or exerting a malignant influence; "malevolent stars";
       "a malefic force" [syn: {malefic}, {malevolent}, {malign},
       {evil}]
    n 1: morally objectionable behavior [syn: {evil}, {immorality},
         {wickedness}, {iniquity}]
    2: that which causes harm or destruction or misfortune; "the
       evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred
       with their bones"- Shakespeare
    3: the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice;
       "attempts to explain the origin of evil in the world" [syn:
       {evil}, {evilness}] [ant: {good}, {goodness}]
    

Evil \E*vil\ ([=e]"v'l) a. [OE. evel, evil, ifel, uvel, AS.
   yfel; akin to OFries, evel, D. euvel, OS. & OHG. ubil, G.
   ["u]bel, Goth. ubils, and perh. to E. over.]
   1. Having qualities tending to injury and mischief; having a
      nature or properties which tend to badness; mischievous;
      not good; worthless or deleterious; poor; as, an evil
      beast; and evil plant; an evil crop.
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            A good tree can not bring forth evil fruit. --Matt.
                                                  vii. 18.
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   2. Having or exhibiting bad moral qualities; morally corrupt;
      wicked; wrong; vicious; as, evil conduct, thoughts, heart,
      words, and the like.
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            Ah, what a sign it is of evil life,
            When death's approach is seen so terrible. --Shak.
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   3. Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or
      calamity; unpropitious; calamitous; as, evil tidings; evil
      arrows; evil days.
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            Because he hath brought up an evil name upon a
            virgin of Israel.                     --Deut. xxii.
                                                  19.
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            The owl shrieked at thy birth -- an evil sign.
                                                  --Shak.
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            Evil news rides post, while good news baits.
                                                  --Milton.
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   {Evil eye}, an eye which inflicts injury by some magical or
      fascinating influence. It is still believed by the
      ignorant and superstitious that some persons have the
      supernatural power of injuring by a look.
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            It almost led him to believe in the evil eye. --J.
                                                  H. Newman.

   {Evil speaking}, speaking ill of others; calumny;
      censoriousness.

   {The evil one}, the Devil; Satan.
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   Note: Evil is sometimes written as the first part of a
         compound (with or without a hyphen). In many cases the
         compounding need not be insisted on. Examples: Evil
         doer or evildoer, evil speaking or evil-speaking, evil
         worker, evil wishing, evil-hearted, evil-minded.

   Syn: Mischieveous; pernicious; injurious; hurtful;
        destructive; wicked; sinful; bad; corrupt; perverse;
        wrong; vicious; calamitous.
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Evil \E"vil\ ([=e]"v'l) n.
   1. Anything which impairs the happiness of a being or
      deprives a being of any good; anything which causes
      suffering of any kind to sentient beings; injury;
      mischief; harm; -- opposed to {good}.
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            Evils which our own misdeeds have wrought. --Milton.
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            The evil that men do lives after them. --Shak.
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   2. Moral badness, or the deviation of a moral being from the
      principles of virtue imposed by conscience, or by the will
      of the Supreme Being, or by the principles of a lawful
      human authority; disposition to do wrong; moral offence;
      wickedness; depravity.
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            The heart of the sons of men is full of evil.
                                                  --Eccl. ix. 3.
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   3. malady or disease; especially in the phrase {king's evil},
      the scrofula. [R.] --Shak.
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            He [Edward the Confessor] was the first that touched
            for the evil.                         --Addison.
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Evil \E"vil\, adv.
   In an evil manner; not well; ill; badly; unhappily;
   injuriously; unkindly. --Shak.
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         It went evil with his house.             --1 Chron.
                                                  vii. 23.
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         The Egyptians evil entreated us, and affected us.
                                                  --Deut. xxvi.
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evil
 adj.

   As used by hackers, implies that some system, program, person, or
   institution is sufficiently maldesigned as to be not worth the bother
   of dealing with. Unlike the adjectives in the
   {cretinous}/{losing}/{brain-damaged} series, evil does not imply
   incompetence or bad design, but rather a set of goals or design
   criteria fatally incompatible with the speaker's. This usage is more
   an esthetic and engineering judgment than a moral one in the
   mainstream sense. "We thought about adding a {Blue Glue} interface but
   decided it was too evil to deal with." "{TECO} is neat, but it can be
   pretty evil if you're prone to typos." Often pronounced with the first
   syllable lengthened, as /eeee'vil/. Compare {evil and rude}.
    

evil

   As used by a {hacker}, implies that some system, program,
   person, or institution is sufficiently maldesigned as to be
   not worth the bother of dealing with.  Unlike the adjectives
   in the cretinous, {losing}, {brain-damaged} series, "evil"
   does not imply incompetence or bad design, but rather a set of
   goals or design criteria fatally incompatible with the
   speaker's.  This usage is more an aesthetic and engineering
   judgment than a moral one in the mainstream sense.  "We
   thought about adding a {Blue Glue} interface but decided it
   was too evil to deal with."  "{TECO} is neat, but it can be
   pretty evil if you're prone to typos."  Often pronounced with
   the first syllable lengthened, as /eeee'vil/.

   Compare {evil and rude}.

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364 Moby Thesaurus words for "evil":
      Loki, Nemesis, Set, Typhon, aberrant, abnormal, abominable,
      abomination, accursed, ado, affliction, agony, amorality, angry,
      anguish, annoyance, anxiety, apocalyptic, arrant, atrocious,
      atrocity, awful, backsliding, bad, badness, baleful, bane, baneful,
      base, baseness, befoulment, besetment, bitchy, black, blamable,
      blameworthy, blight, bodeful, boding, bother, breach, bugbear,
      burden, calamitous, calamity, can of worms, carnality, cataclysm,
      catastrophe, catastrophic, catty, corrupt, corruption, crime,
      crime against humanity, criminal, criminality, crooked,
      crushing burden, crying evil, curse, damage, damaging, damnable,
      dark, deadly, deadly sin, death, debt, defilement, degeneracy,
      degradation, deleterious, delinquency, delinquent, depraved,
      depravity, dereliction, despiteful, despoliation, destruction,
      destructive, detriment, detrimental, deviant, devilry, deviltry,
      diablerie, diabolism, difficult, dire, dirty, disadvantage,
      disagreeable, disaster, disastrous, disease, disgrace, disgraceful,
      disgusting, dishonest, dishonorable, distasteful, doomful,
      dreadful, dreary, enormity, error, evil nature, evil-minded,
      evil-starred, evildoing, evilness, execrable, failure, fateful,
      fault, felonious, felony, fetid, flagitious, flagitiousness,
      flagrant, foreboding, foul, foulness, genocide, ghastly, gloomy,
      great ado, grievance, grisly, guilty act, hard, hardly the thing,
      harm, harmful, hateful, havoc, headache, heavy sin, heinous,
      heinousness, hideous, horrible, horrid, hurt, hurtful, ignominious,
      ill, ill-boding, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, illegal,
      immoral, immorality, improper, impropriety, impurity, inaccurate,
      inappropriate, inauspicious, inconvenience, incorrect, indecorous,
      indiscretion, inexpedient, inexpiable sin, infamous, infamy,
      infection, infelicitous, inferior, infliction, iniquitous,
      iniquity, injurious, injury, injustice, insidious, invalid,
      knavery, knavish, lapse, lethal, loathsome, low, lowering,
      malefaction, malefic, maleficence, maleficent, malevolent,
      malfeasance, malign, malignant, malum, matter, menacing, mephitic,
      minor wrong, mischief, mischievous, misconduct, misdeed,
      misdemeanor, misery, misfeasance, misfortune, monstrous,
      moral delinquency, mortal sin, nasty, naughty, nefarious,
      nefariousness, nemesis, nonfeasance, not done, not the thing,
      noxious, obliquity, obscene, of evil portent, off-base, off-color,
      offense, offensive, ominous, omission, open wound, out-of-line,
      outrage, pain, peccability, peccadillo, peccancy, peccant,
      peck of troubles, perfidious, pernicious, pest, pestilence,
      pestilential, plague, poison, poisonous, pollution, portending,
      portentous, problem, prodigality, profligacy, putrid, rancorous,
      rank, recidivism, repellent, reprehensible, reprobacy, reprobate,
      repugnant, repulsive, revolting, ruin, ruinous, running sore,
      sacrilegious, satanism, scandal, scandalous, scourge,
      sea of troubles, shame, shameful, shameless, sin,
      sin of commission, sin of omission, sinful, sinful act, sinfulness,
      sinister, slip, somber, sorrow, spiteful, stinking, suffering,
      terrible, the worst, thorn, threatening, torment, tort, toxic,
      toxin, traitorous, transgression, treacherous, trespass, trip,
      trouble, trying, turpitude, ugly, unangelicalness, unchastity,
      uncleanness, underhanded, undue, unfavorable, unfit, unfitting,
      unforgivable, unfortunate, ungodliness, ungoodness, unhealthy,
      unkind, unlawful, unlucky, unmorality, unpardonable, unpleasant,
      unprincipled, unpromising, unpropitious, unrighteous,
      unrighteousness, unsaintliness, unscrupulous, unseemly, unskillful,
      unspeakable, unsuitable, untoward, unutterable sin, unvirtuousness,
      unworthy, venial sin, venom, vexation, vice, vicious, viciousness,
      vile, vileness, villainous, villainy, virulent, visitation,
      wantonness, waywardness, wicked, wickedness, woe, woeful, worry,
      wrathful, wrong, wrongdoing, wrongful