an evil plot to brainwash and even kill innocent people

He looked at her shapely person with something of the brazen and evil glance that had been so revolting to her in the eyes of those ruffians.

2006, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Wizard of the Crow, New York: Pantheon, Book Three, Section II, Chapter 3, p. 351,
“Before this, I never had any cause to suspect my wife of any conspiracy.”
“You mean it never crossed your mind that she might have been told to whisper evil thoughts in your ear at night?”

He tells secret dreams to strangers , imagines he can achieve art without discipline , regards all boundaries as evil , ignores ancestors , wants comfort and merging , believes cunning is wrong , and as a scholar or artist doesn't […]

If something is evil, it is never mandatory.

Do you think that companies that engage in animal testing are evil?

I had much trouble at first in breaking him of those evil habits his father had taught him to acquire […]

To the rabbis who taught in the Jewish parochial schools, baseball was an evil waste of time […]

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 […]

1937, Robert Byron, The Road to Oxiana, London: Macmillan, Part V, “Mazar-i-Sherif,” p. 282,
It was an evil day, sticky and leaden: Oxiana looked as colourless and suburban as India.

He herded them into a small and evil toilet and then through a window.

Everyone in the tiny, crowded, hot, and evil-smelling kitchen […] has been invited to participate in a moment of history.

[…] with bandits and robbers roving over the land in these evil times of famine and war, how can it be said that this one or that stole anything? Hunger makes thief of any man.

an evil beast; an evil plant; an evil crop

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

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:

The evils of society include murder and theft.

Evil lacks spirituality, hence its need for mind control.

IS ANYTHING more obvious than the presence of evil in the universe? Its nagging, prehensile tentacles project into every level of human existence. We may debate the origin of evil, but only a victim of superficial optimism would debate its reality. Evil is stark, grim, and colossally real.

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sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof

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