EVIL Synonyms: 396 Similar and Opposite Words

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Recent Examples of evil

Noun

His surreal, operatic films and television shows examined romance, consciousness, evil, and the enduring rot beneath suburban sheen and Hollywood glamor. —

Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 17 Jan. 2025 Much of it is in black and white, treating the detonation of the first atomic bomb as the event that unleashed true evil into the world. —

Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 16 Jan. 2025

Adjective

Over a Zoom call, CEO Walt Leger reflected on the hurt, anger, and sadness our communities currently face while emphasizing the importance of not letting this one evil act overshadow the thousands of safe and joyful days that came before it. —

Janna A. Zanzi, AFAR Media, 8 Jan. 2025 More than a year after being stolen in Hamas’s brutal assault on southern Israel, dozens of captives -- men, women, children, and the elderly, Americans among them -- remain held as bargaining chips in Hamas’s evil gambit to survive the resulting war. —

Tal Fortgang, National Review, 8 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for evil

Recent Examples of Synonyms for evil

Noun

Reports out of fall camp haven’t been super favorable to their offense, and while the defense will, again, be top-notch, a team with this bad of an offense cannot be trusted.

— Austin Mock, The Athletic, 19 Aug. 2024
The revenue could come from taxes on bads (pollution, for example) or on rents (including land and, above all, intellectual property).

— Martin Wolf, Foreign Affairs, 1 July 2015