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  1. 1. a. 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. Source: opted
  2. 2. a. Having or exhibiting bad moral qualities; morally corrupt; wicked; wrong; vicious; as, evil conduct, thoughts, heart, words, and the like. Source: opted
  3. 3. a. Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous; as, evil tidings; evil arrows; evil days. Source: opted
  4. 4. n. 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. Source: opted
  5. 5. n. 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. Source: opted
  6. 6. n. malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil, the scrofula. Source: opted
  7. 7. adv. In an evil manner; not well; ill; badly; unhappily; injuriously; unkindly. Source: opted
  8. 8. adj. morally bad or wrong Source: wordnet
  9. 9. adj. having the nature of vice Source: wordnet
  10. 10. adj. having or exerting a malignant influence Source: wordnet
  11. 11. n. morally objectionable behavior Source: wordnet
  12. 12. n. the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice Source: wordnet

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