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
  • Linked in the comments to the Threads post is a longer article posted to a disreputable website that includes an image shared Dec. 22, 2024, by The Patriots Network – another account in SpaceXMania's network – with a watermark identifying the claim as a fabrication.
    Joedy McCreary, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2025
  • His solo debut Compassion gracefully straddles juvenilia and maturity: The music is dreamy, inventive, steeped in youthful obsessions and disreputable radio hits from the ’90s.
    SPIN Team, SPIN, 28 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • This was not out of choice: After his capture and before his execution, Höss was ordered to write his memoir, giving an insight into the workings of a mind that was both ordinary and chillingly evil.
    Saskya Vandoorne, CNN, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Nietzsche’s treatise criticizes philosophers who rest their moral framework on the assumption that good and evil are opposites.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 13 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Fiona Shaw is so perfectly contemptible throughout those scenes on the sailboat, rendering Angelica so completely self-absorbed and so cruel, that her likely death feels like an immediate relief.
    Caroline Framke, Vulture, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Most Europeans find Donald Trump alien and contemptible and a man unsuited for the U.S. presidency.
    David Goodart, Foreign Affairs, 15 Aug. 2017
Adjective
  • Capybaras, as prey animals, instinctively situate themselves in groups along lakes and riverbanks—the water, in which they can be submerged for up to five minutes, serves as a means of escape from land animals, and the land can provide refuge from the nefarious caiman.
    Gary Shteyngart, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Some of the people who have been nominated to positions have been very critical, implying that there are nefarious motives of people working in public heath agencies.
    Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • But on this southern front of the Trump empire, Palm Beach County, Donald Trump is flirting with ignoble defeat.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2025
  • This is something of an ignoble cap to one of the worst years of Rodgers' illustrious career.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 29 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • The despicable crime perpetrated by Hamas on 7 October 2023 is still very real to all of us.
    Amanda Castro, Newsweek, 14 Jan. 2025
  • But it can be done, bad or good, sensible or despicable.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The wildfires scorching Southern California are turning entire neighborhoods into ash, decimating expensive properties and exacerbating an insurance crisis that predates the infernal blazes.
    Sharon Udasin, The Hill, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Because of the infernal heat and swamplike humidity at Beech Bend, there was a lot of prep work to be done before the Nostalgia Nationals elimination rounds could commence.
    Rachel Kushner, Harper's Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • More recently, Jovovich played the villainous Blood Queen in the 2019 Hellboy reboot.
    Danny Horn, EW.com, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Instead of hinging on Kang, who posed the sort of extra-dimensional threat across time and space that only the Sorcerer Supreme could handle, it's now shifted focus to the villainous Doctor Doom, as played by Robert Downey Jr.
    John Yoo and John Shu, Newsweek, 23 Jan. 2025

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“Evil-minded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evil-minded. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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