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Intending to harm; malevolent.
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(RQ:Gaskell Wives and Daughters)
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2006, (w), ''(w)'', New York: Pantheon, Book Three, Section II, Chapter 3, p. 351,https://archive.org/details/wizardofcrow00ngug
- “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?”
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(RQ:Shakespeare Henry 6-2)
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Unpleasant, foul (''of odour, taste, mood, weather, etc.'').
1660, John Harding (translator), ''(w) his Archidoxis'', London: W.S., Book 7, “Of an Odoriferous Specifick,” p. 100,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A28630.0001.001
- 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, nor abide there (..)
(RQ:Wells Invisible Man)
1937, (w), ''(w)'', London: Macmillan, Part V, “Mazar-i-Sherif,” p. 282,https://fadedpage.com/books/20161131/html.php
- It was an evil day, sticky and leaden: Oxiana looked as colourless and suburban as India.
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Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous.
(RQ:Shakespeare Henry 6-3)
(RQ:KJV) he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel:
(RQ:Milton Samson Agonistes)
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Having harmful qualities; not good; worthless or deleterious.
(RQ:KJV)
Undesirable; harmful; bad practice.
Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good.
(RQ:Maxwell Mirror and the Lamp)Resist not evil. It is an insane immolation of self—as bad intrinsically as fakirs stabbing themselves or anchorites warping their spines in caves scarcely large enough for a fair-sized dog.
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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.
(RQ:Milton Paradise Lost)
(RQ:Shakespeare Julius Caesar)
A malady or disease; especially in combination, as in (m), (m).
(RQ:Shakespeare Macbeth)
(RQ:Spectator)
(senseid) wickedly, evilly, iniquitously
(RQ:Spenser Faerie Queene)
injuriously, harmfully; in a damaging way.
(RQ:King James Version)
badly, poorly; in an insufficient way.
''It went evil with him.''
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