evil-minded

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Recent Examples of evil-minded Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 19 Dec. 2024
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Adjective
  • His solo debut Compassion gracefully straddles juvenilia and maturity: The music is dreamy, inventive, steeped in youthful obsessions and disreputable radio hits from the ’90s.
    SPIN Team, SPIN, 28 Nov. 2024
  • They are believed to have consumed drinks tainted with methanol, which is sometimes used as the alcohol in mixed drinks at disreputable bars and can cause severe poisoning, sometimes leading to death.
    David Rising and Jintamas Saksornchai, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • Millions of people around the world celebrate the Persian festival of Yalda, which marks the sunrise after the longest night of the year, said to be the night evil forces held the most power.
    Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Much like 2014’s Ouija, a group of tedious teens unleash an evil entity haunting a specific set of tarot cards.
    Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 17 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Fiona Shaw is so perfectly contemptible throughout those scenes on the sailboat, rendering Angelica so completely self-absorbed and so cruel, that her likely death feels like an immediate relief.
    Caroline Framke, Vulture, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Most Europeans find Donald Trump alien and contemptible and a man unsuited for the U.S. presidency.
    David Goodart, Foreign Affairs, 15 Aug. 2017
Adjective
  • Their scenes largely took place in boardrooms in New York City, where Katie was meeting rich colleagues of her deceased husband in order to carry out a nefarious plan.
    Fox News, Fox News, 23 Dec. 2024
  • State of play: No nefarious activity is involved in the drones drones reported over several northeastern states, federal officials have repeatedly said.
    April Rubin, Axios, 20 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Larraín’s third subject, Maria Callas, despite being born to an ignoble family and having to face wartime poverty during the 1940s, was no stranger to the trappings of an empyrean existence, but in constantly having to live up to it, like Diana, her life met an untimely end.
    Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 15 Dec. 2024
  • Anything can happen, but polling trends increasingly suggest that the presidency of Donald Trump, which has itself seemed like an eternity to many, may be heading to its ignoble end.
    Christopher R. Hill, Foreign Affairs, 19 June 2020
Adjective
  • Even Martha Washington bore in on the Federalist side, saying that Jefferson was despicable, the most despicable mankind of all.
    NBC News, NBC News, 22 Dec. 2024
  • Mangione allegedly took a human life, which is despicable.
    Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Christ and his angels battled for your salvation, while the Devil and his many demonic spirits sought to trick and tempt, to pull you into their infernal kingdom.
    James Wood, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
  • The stake, with the hooded heretic, the black man or the witch attached to it, is the burning tree and body of the infernal world.
    John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
Adjective
  • The two become as close as brothers and go on a quest that pits them against the villainous white lion Kiros (Mads Mikkelsen) but also tests their bonds of friendship.
    Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Despite the former couple calling off their engagement in October, Kravitz, who met Tatum after casting him as the villainous Slater, stands by her decision.
    Charna Flam, People.com, 19 Dec. 2024

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“Evil-minded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evil-minded. Accessed 5 Jan. 2025.

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