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evil
A	noun
	1	evil, immorality, wickedness, iniquity
			morally objectionable behavior
		Category Tree: act; human action; human activity ╚activity ╚wrongdoing; wrongful conduct; misconduct; actus reus ╚transgression; evildoing ╚evil, immorality, wickedness, iniquity ╚sexual immorality ╚irreverence; violation ╚foul play ╚deviltry; devilry
	2	evil, evilness
			the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice; "attempts to explain the origin of evil in the world"
		Category Tree: abstraction ╚attribute ╚quality ╚immorality ╚evil, evilness ╚frailty; vice ╚error; wrongdoing ╚perversity ╚villainy; villainousness ╚reprehensibility ╚nefariousness; wickedness; vileness ╚worst ╚maleficence; mischief; balefulness ╚malignity; malignancy; malignance ╚malevolence; malevolency; malice
	3	evil
			that which causes harm or destruction or misfortune; "the evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones"- Shakespeare
		Category Tree: abstraction ╚attribute ╚quality ╚bad; badness ╚evil ╚Four Horsemen
B	adjective
	1	malefic, malevolent, malign, evil
			having or exerting a malignant influence; "malevolent stars"; "a malefic force"

	2	evil, harmful, injurious
			tending to cause great harm

	3	evil, wicked
			morally bad or wrong; "evil purposes"; "an evil influence"; "evil deeds"

	4	depraved, evil, vicious
			having the nature of vice

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