balefulness

noun

Definition of balefulnessnext
as in vileness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for balefulness
  1. diabolism
  2. wickedness
  3. evil
  4. satanism
  5. enormity
  6. darkness
  7. atrocity
  8. bad
Noun
  • Whatever their theme — spectral invasion, diabolism, shape-changing — Blackwood expertly builds up an atmosphere of the otherworldly coupled with the spiritually threatening.
    Washington Post, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2020
  • In this riposte to #MeToo diabolism, Tarantino finally finds a social context that challenges his audience.
    Armond White, National Review, 26 July 2019
Definition of diabolism
Noun
  • Less familiar is the part that his American wife, Fanny Stevenson (née Van de Grift), played in juicing up the story’s plot to establish Edward Hyde’s wickedness early on.
    Tobias Grey, airmail.news, 10 Aug. 2024
  • Burkhart’s wickedness is more intimate, more complex, more human.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
Definition of wickedness
Noun
  • All our sufferings must therefore be lesser evils that somehow serve to bring about a greater good.
    Anthony Gottlieb, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
  • It was seen as a temporary evil while balancing between the West and the Soviet Union.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 5 Jan. 2025
Definition of evil
Noun
  • With townspeople convinced that the athlete was sucked up by the waves of satanism spreading across the country, a group of outcasts in a band named Dethkrunch decides to lean into the panic, turning the members into targets themselves.
    Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Meanwhile, Ben’s found a former member of the troupe who made a video accusing the group of recruiting her for satanism.
    Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 27 June 2024
Definition of satanism
Noun
  • The enormity of everything else becomes too difficult to ignore.
    William Guillory, The Athletic, 4 Jan. 2025
  • Yet in 2024, Swift balanced the enormity of her superstardom with the most vulnerable music of her career, including songs written about the trappings of that superstardom.
    Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 19 Dec. 2024
Definition of enormity
Noun
  • And that this age of darkness will pass the way winters Pass when strong sap rises under the brittle bark.
    Czeslaw Milosz, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
  • In the season, Doctor Strange is trapped in the Astral Plane, while the world is plunged into darkness as a result of Doctor Doom and Dracula's meddling.
    Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 6 Jan. 2025
Definition of darkness
Noun
  • His incendiary rhymes, which boldly call out the atrocities carried out by the country’s dictatorial regime, have resulted in multiple arrests and extended stretches in prison over the last five years, for a sum total of 753 days.
    SPIN Staff, SPIN, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Indeed, in recent years, this designation was made in the cases of the Daesh atrocities against Yazidis, Christians and other religious minorities, the atrocities against Uyghurs in Xinjiang, China, and the atrocities against the Rohingya in Myanmar.
    Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
Definition of atrocity
Noun
  • Reports out of fall camp haven’t been super favorable to their offense, and while the defense will, again, be top-notch, a team with this bad of an offense cannot be trusted.
    Austin Mock, The Athletic, 19 Aug. 2024
  • The revenue could come from taxes on bads (pollution, for example) or on rents (including land and, above all, intellectual property).
    Martin Wolf, Foreign Affairs, 1 July 2015
Definition of bad
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