How to Use evildoer in a Sentence

evildoer

noun
  • The sheriff is protecting the community from evildoers.
  • If the camera lingers on a pair of stiletto heels, shouldn’t some evildoer be gaffed on one by the end of the episode?
    John Anderson, WSJ, 13 Apr. 2021
  • An evildoer decides to do a reversal of the good and the bad.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 1 June 2022
  • Sometimes an evildoer will forge the grantor’s signature to a deed and then file the forged deed in the county deed records.
    Dallas News, 13 Mar. 2022
  • Victim-shaming must be quelled, and the real evildoers called out and punished to the fullest extent of the law.
    Mira Sorvino, EW.com, 12 Oct. 2017
  • Prince Fichael lives in a human colony on an alien world and vows to rid the planet of evil — but then learns his dad’s the biggest evildoer of them all.
    Jacob Siegal, BGR, 10 July 2022
  • Whole gangs of crows followed the evildoer, scolding and dive-bombing.
    Kale Williams, OregonLive.com, 7 Feb. 2018
  • Heart of Stone 2 could follow the same format as the original film, with Rachel trying to keep the powerful Heart out of the hands of evildoers.
    Temi Adebowale, Men's Health, 12 Aug. 2023
  • There aren’t any foul words per se in the essay, other than alluding to the famed evildoer and equating that person with John Smith.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 5 Feb. 2023
  • Imagine an evildoer that wants to make trouble for self-driving cars.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 16 May 2022
  • He was supposed to be the hero who caught bad guys and investigated evildoers.
    Scott Johnson, Rolling Stone, 19 June 2023
  • Having referred to John Smith as being like the famed evildoer, is absolutely a form of hate speech.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 5 Feb. 2023
  • The Mission follows a group of scientists aiming to thwart the plans of an evildoer and is highlighted by a car chase through the desert, which was shot over five days last summer.
    Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Feb. 2022
  • Known for parting the Red Sea, this powerful piece of wood channels God's energy to strike down evildoers.
    Malcolm Gay, WIRED, 1 Dec. 2003
  • Would this newfound power bring out the best in you, instilling you with the courage to discreetly sabotage the efforts of evildoers?
    Marc Longenecker, Time, 4 Mar. 2020
  • But if the other truth is ignored by parents, well, go on blaming guns for acts of evil instead of actual evildoers.
    Greg Gutfeld, Fox News, 27 Mar. 2018
  • After gruesomely killing his first set of Italian evildoers in the third movie's opening scenes, McCall speaks out loud to his long-deceased wife.
    Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2023
  • They’re also known to emerge from the abyss of hell itself — or Jigoku in Japanese Buddhism — to frighten mortals, or torment evildoers who are sent there.
    Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 24 July 2023
  • The evildoer would presumably have the AI driving system be on constant alert for anyone approaching the vehicle, and then have the self-driving car skirt away (or try to drive at the person).
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2021
  • In my experience, in decades of war reporting, the nuisance, the evildoer is Saudi Arabia.
    Fox News, 8 Aug. 2018
  • Patterson and Wall both addressed the age-old questions about why a loving God would allow a persistent evildoer to prevail.
    Dallas News, 3 May 2022
  • The result isn't a shades-of-gray spread of evildoers' responsibility.
    Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 22 June 2018
  • Now that London's greatest sleuth is missing and feared dead, the city's evildoers are free to wreak havoc on the populace, including the rats who brazenly kidnap the mayor's daughter.
    Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 9 Dec. 2017
  • Also, for my analysis of how evildoers are aiming to use generative AI for wrongdoing, see the link here.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2023
  • An evildoer might focus on a particular set of self-driving cars made by company X.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2021
  • After selecting a special agent name, spies use gear like a USB drive and polarized glasses to solve puzzles that defend the museum against a gang of villains, led by evildoer Vex.
    Allison Bagley, Houston Chronicle, 6 June 2018
  • Kosek said the fire-suppression campaign reflects a belief, deeply rooted in the Forest Service’s history, that people who set fires in forests are deviants and evildoers.
    Wendy Melillo, The Conversation, 19 July 2019
  • Many popular ideas about evildoers seem to stem from tabloid news, rather than scientific evidence.
    WIRED, 21 Feb. 2023
  • But the setting is Baghdad during the Iraq War, where the evildoers come in a variety of not only shapes, sizes and hat colors, but ethnicities, profit motives and watery allegiances.
    John Anderson, WSJ, 26 Mar. 2020
  • Naturally, because this is an action comedy, they're also dogged by the violent evildoers who scammed Robert out of his life savings.
    Robyn Bahr, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Jan. 2020

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