eviladj詞源 1/ˈiːvəl/

• 1

  Intending to harm; malevolent.

  • an evil plot to brainwash and even kill innocent people
  • For a good while the Miss Brownings were kept in ignorance of the evil tongues that whispered hard words about Molly.
• 2

  Morally corrupt.

  • If something is evil, it is never mandatory.
  • Do you think that companies that engage in animal testing are evil?
• 3

  Unpleasant, foul (of odor, taste, mood, weather, etc.).

  • 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 […]
  • He awoke in an evil temper […]
• 4

  Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous.

  • The owl shrieked at thy birth,—an evil sign;
  • […] he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel:
• 5

  obsoleteHaving harmful qualities; not good; worthless or deleterious.

  • an evil beast; an evil plant; an evil crop
  • A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit.
• 6

  slangcomputingengineeringmathematicsUndesirable; harmful; bad practice.

  • Global variables are evil; storing processing context in object member variables allows those objects to be reused in a much more flexible way.

evilnoun詞源 1/ˈiːvəl/

• 1

  Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good.

  • The evils of society include murder and theft.
  • Evil lacks spirituality, hence its need for mind control.
• 2

  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
  • The evil that men do lives after them.
• 3

  obsoleteA malady or disease; especially in combination, as in king's evil, colt evil.

  • [The disease]Tis call'd the Euill.
  • He [Edward the Confessor] was the first that touched for the evil.

eviladv詞源 2/ˈiːvəl/

• 1

  obsoletewickedly, evilly, iniquitously

  • O what of Gods then boots it to be borne, / If old Aveugles ſonnes ſo euill heare?
• 2

  obsoleteinjuriously, 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:
• 3

  obsoletebadly, poorly; in an insufficient way.

  • It went evil with him.
  • But (as the Poet ſaith) Malè ſarta gratia, nequicquam coit, & reſcinditur: Friendſhip, that is but euill peeced, will not ioine cloſe, but falleth aſunder againe: