LekhoriLekhoriIntending to harm; malevolent.
an evil plot to brainwash and even kill innocent people
Morally corrupt.
If something is evil, it is never mandatory.
Unpleasant, foul (of odor, taste, mood, weather, etc.).
Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good.
The evils of society include murder and theft.
From Middle English yvel, evel, ivel, uvel, from Old English yfel, from Proto-West Germanic *ubil, from Proto-Germanic *ubilaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂up(h₁)élos, a deverbal derivative of *h₂wep(...
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1660, John Harding (translator), Paracelsus his Archidoxis, London: W.S., Book 7, “Of an Odoriferous Specifick,” p. 100, An Odoriferous Specifick […] is a Matter that takes away Diseases from the Sick, no otherwise then as Civet drives away the stinck of Ordure by its Odour; for you are to observe, That the Specifick doth permix it self with this evil Odour of the Dung; and the stink of the Dung cannot hurt, no[r] abide there […]
Something which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; something which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; harm; injury; mischief.
evils which our own misdeeds have wrought
A malady or disease; especially in combination, as in king's evil, colt evil.
[The disease]Tis call'd the Euill.
injuriously, harmfully; in a damaging way.
And many ſhall follow their pernicious wayes, by reaſon of whom the way of trueth ſhall be euill ſpoken of:
badly, poorly; in an insufficient way.
It went evil with him.