evil-minded

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Recent Examples of evil-minded Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 19 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for evil-minded
Adjective
  • Her pattern was disrupted by Balthazar Blades settling himself at one end of the bar, smiling with all his disreputable charm.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Collecting vast sums of cash-on-loan from some particularly disreputable business associates, Charles opened The Egyptian Tomb Lounge in Reno, Nevada, which operated for a grand total of four months before unceremoniously burning to the ground.
    Hazlitt, Hazlitt, 18 June 2025
Adjective
  • If the full release can continue to generate oddly pulse-pounding moments like the near-death rooftop fight with an evil-eyed Pikachu, then Z-A might be worth an extended stay in Lumiose.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2025
  • The kids discover their small town of Derry is home to an ancient, trans-dimensional evil that awakens every 27 years to prey mostly on children by taking the form of an evil clown named Pennywise.
    Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 23 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The death of Pope Francis, sadly, has not escaped the attention of these truly contemptible criminals.
    Davey Winder, Forbes.com, 24 Apr. 2025
  • At the time, some of LeBron’s critics saw this as contemptible.
    Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The potential consequences here can’t be overstated—the idea that robots can be taken over and used for nefarious purposes is already a science fiction trope, but the impact of a high-profile robot hack on the reputation of the commercial robotics industry is unclear.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 25 Sep. 2025
  • But that requires killing Vilgefortz (Mahesh Jadu), the seemingly unstoppable sorcerer with a nefarious plot to reshape the world who is also hunting the Cintran princess.
    Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • This is an ignoble plan that cites dubious science while elevating the entertainment of a handful of hunters over the revulsion of most Floridians.
    Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 July 2025
  • My focus is down to the ignoble little health annoyances that seem to cap and even eclipse a major setback.
    John Updike, New Yorker, 11 July 2025
Adjective
  • This kind of violence in a place of worship is despicable.
    Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Someone may have had the impulse to say something despicable about the assassination of Kirk or expressed some repulsive attitudes towards a particular group of people that warranted social pressure.
    Rafael Perez, Oc Register, 17 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Mephistopheles, dispatched by the Devil to serve Faustus, can’t help getting the better of his mortal master, like an infernal Jeeves—or, more to the point, like a handler in the intelligence racket, running an anxious agent in the field.
    Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
  • As a brand, Annabelle’s infernal power knows no limits.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • In the ride’s storyline, recruits are enlisted to join a battle between the villainous First Order and the heroic Resistance.
    Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Sig, Jedi Bob, Yesi, Servo, and the villainous Dev return to face a new enemy—the powerful and mysterious Solitus.
    DeVonne Goode, Parents, 18 Sep. 2025

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“Evil-minded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evil-minded. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.

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