How to Use evildoer in a Sentence
evildoer
noun- The sheriff is protecting the community from evildoers.
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There aren’t any foul words per se in the essay, other than alluding to the famed evildoer and equating that person with John Smith.
— Lance Eliot, Forbes, 5 Feb. 2023 -
If the camera lingers on a pair of stiletto heels, shouldn’t some evildoer be gaffed on one by the end of the episode?
— John Anderson, WSJ, 13 Apr. 2021 -
An evildoer decides to do a reversal of the good and the bad.
— Lance Eliot, Forbes, 1 June 2022 -
Sometimes an evildoer will forge the grantor’s signature to a deed and then file the forged deed in the county deed records.
— Dallas News, 13 Mar. 2022 -
Victim-shaming must be quelled, and the real evildoers called out and punished to the fullest extent of the law.
— Mira Sorvino, EW.com, 12 Oct. 2017 -
Prince Fichael lives in a human colony on an alien world and vows to rid the planet of evil — but then learns his dad’s the biggest evildoer of them all.
— Jacob Siegal, BGR, 10 July 2022 -
Whole gangs of crows followed the evildoer, scolding and dive-bombing.
— Kale Williams, OregonLive.com, 7 Feb. 2018 -
Heart of Stone 2 could follow the same format as the original film, with Rachel trying to keep the powerful Heart out of the hands of evildoers.
— Temi Adebowale, Men's Health, 12 Aug. 2023 -
Imagine an evildoer that wants to make trouble for self-driving cars.
— Lance Eliot, Forbes, 16 May 2022 -
He was supposed to be the hero who caught bad guys and investigated evildoers.
— Scott Johnson, Rolling Stone, 19 June 2023 -
Having referred to John Smith as being like the famed evildoer, is absolutely a form of hate speech.
— Lance Eliot, Forbes, 5 Feb. 2023 -
The Mission follows a group of scientists aiming to thwart the plans of an evildoer and is highlighted by a car chase through the desert, which was shot over five days last summer.
— Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Feb. 2022 -
Known for parting the Red Sea, this powerful piece of wood channels God's energy to strike down evildoers.
— Malcolm Gay, WIRED, 1 Dec. 2003 -
Would this newfound power bring out the best in you, instilling you with the courage to discreetly sabotage the efforts of evildoers?
— Marc Longenecker, Time, 4 Mar. 2020 -
But if the other truth is ignored by parents, well, go on blaming guns for acts of evil instead of actual evildoers.
— Greg Gutfeld, Fox News, 27 Mar. 2018 -
After gruesomely killing his first set of Italian evildoers in the third movie's opening scenes, McCall speaks out loud to his long-deceased wife.
— Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2023 -
They’re also known to emerge from the abyss of hell itself — or Jigoku in Japanese Buddhism — to frighten mortals, or torment evildoers who are sent there.
— Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 24 July 2023 -
The evildoer would presumably have the AI driving system be on constant alert for anyone approaching the vehicle, and then have the self-driving car skirt away (or try to drive at the person).
— Lance Eliot, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2021 -
In my experience, in decades of war reporting, the nuisance, the evildoer is Saudi Arabia.
— Fox News, 8 Aug. 2018 -
Patterson and Wall both addressed the age-old questions about why a loving God would allow a persistent evildoer to prevail.
— Dallas News, 3 May 2022 -
The result isn't a shades-of-gray spread of evildoers' responsibility.
— Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 22 June 2018 -
Now that London's greatest sleuth is missing and feared dead, the city's evildoers are free to wreak havoc on the populace, including the rats who brazenly kidnap the mayor's daughter.
— Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 9 Dec. 2017 -
Also, for my analysis of how evildoers are aiming to use generative AI for wrongdoing, see the link here.
— Lance Eliot, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2023 -
An evildoer might focus on a particular set of self-driving cars made by company X.
— Lance Eliot, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2021 -
After selecting a special agent name, spies use gear like a USB drive and polarized glasses to solve puzzles that defend the museum against a gang of villains, led by evildoer Vex.
— Allison Bagley, Houston Chronicle, 6 June 2018 -
Kosek said the fire-suppression campaign reflects a belief, deeply rooted in the Forest Service’s history, that people who set fires in forests are deviants and evildoers.
— Wendy Melillo, The Conversation, 19 July 2019 -
Many popular ideas about evildoers seem to stem from tabloid news, rather than scientific evidence.
— WIRED, 21 Feb. 2023 -
But the setting is Baghdad during the Iraq War, where the evildoers come in a variety of not only shapes, sizes and hat colors, but ethnicities, profit motives and watery allegiances.
— John Anderson, WSJ, 26 Mar. 2020 -
Naturally, because this is an action comedy, they're also dogged by the violent evildoers who scammed Robert out of his life savings.
— Robyn Bahr, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Jan. 2020
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