The Oxford Thesaurus An A-Z Dictionary of Synonyms - eviladj.

1) bad, awful, wrong, immoral, wicked, sinful, nefarious, iniquitous, base, corrupt, vile, accursed, damnable, villainous, heinous, infamous, flagitious, foul, nasty, abominable, atrocious, horrible, horrid, ghastly, grisly, dreadful, depraved, vicious, malevolent, maleficent, malefic, black-hearted, evil-minded: He was an evil tyrant who killed anyone who opposed him. 2) treacherous, traitorous, perfidious, insidious, unscrupulous, unprincipled, dishonest, dishonourable, crooked, criminal, felonious, knavish, sinister, underhand(ed) , dirty, corrupt: He thought up an evil plan for getting rid of his wife. 3) harmful, destructive, hurtful, injurious, mischievous, detrimental, ruinous, deleterious, disastrous, catastrophic, pernicious, noxious, malignant, malign, virulent, toxic, poisonous, deadly, lethal: Evil policies were promulgated against minority groups, and racist attacks abounded. 4) unfortunate, unlucky, ominous, inauspicious, dire, unpropitious, calamitous, infelicitous, woeful: Their business had fallen on evil times. 5) bad, offensive, disgusting, repulsive, awful, nasty, mephitic, noxious, foul, pestilential, putrid, vile; disagreeable, unpleasant: An evil odour permeated the crypt. --n. 6) badness, sin, vice, wickedness, iniquity, turpitude, immorality, profligacy, depravity, degeneracy, corruption, degradation, devilry or deviltry, villainy, nefariousness, viciousness, vileness, heinousness, flagitiousness, baseness, foulness: The evil that men do lives after them, the good is oft interred with their bones. 7) harm, hurt, injury, mischief, damage, ruin, calamity, misfortune, catastrophe, destruction, disaster, cataclysm; ill, misery, suffering, pain, sorrow, woe, agony, anguish: Evil befell the residents of Pompeii.