evil
邪恶,邪恶的,恶魔,弊端
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Definitions
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- : morally wrong or bad; immoral; wicked: evil deeds;an evil life.
- : harmful; detrimental: evil laws.
- : characterized or accompanied by misfortune or suffering; unfortunate; disastrous: to be fallen on evil days.
- : due to actual or imputed bad conduct or character: an evil reputation.
- : marked by anger, irritability, irascibility, etc.: He is known for his evil disposition.
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- : that which is evil; evil quality, intention, or conduct: to choose the lesser of two evils.
- : the force in nature that governs and gives rise to wickedness and sin.
- : the wicked or immoral part of someone or something: The evil in his nature has destroyed the good.
- : harm; mischief; misfortune: to wish one evil.
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Examples
For anaerobic life, which does not use oxygen, “phosphine is not so evil,” Sousa-Silva says.
Quasimodo has been brought up by an evil politician who’s confined him his entire life within the borders of the Notre Dame Cathedral.
With a series of toy models, the researchers calculated that the biased cosmic ray particles were ever-so-slightly more likely to knock an electron loose from a “live” helix than from an “evil” one, an event that theoretically causes mutations.
A world of women is a world of people, still, with full human capacity for good or evil.
The pursuit of a favorable credit score to secure commercial loans for our cars and homes has been viewed as a necessary evil.
But along with the cartoon funk is an all-too-real story of police brutality embodied by a horde of evil Pigs.
Or has the see and hear and speak-no-evil stance of the Republican House persuaded him that he is in the clear?
One wonders if his subsequent battles with the “Evil Empire” were animated by this belief.
Luke Skywalker is an evil robot who has fallen to the dark side of the force.
The skateboarder is as irredeemably evil as the others are noble.
He alludes to it as one of their evil customs and used by them to produce insensibility.