evil-minded

adjective

Definition of evil-mindednext
as in disreputable

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for evil-minded
  1. disreputable
  2. evil
  3. contemptible
  4. nefarious
  5. ignoble
  6. despicable
  7. infernal
  8. villainous
Adjective
  • 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
  • They are believed to have consumed drinks tainted with methanol, which is sometimes used as the alcohol in mixed drinks at disreputable bars and can cause severe poisoning, sometimes leading to death.
    David Rising and Jintamas Saksornchai, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2024
Definition of disreputable
Adjective
  • Millions of people around the world celebrate the Persian festival of Yalda, which marks the sunrise after the longest night of the year, said to be the night evil forces held the most power.
    Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Much like 2014’s Ouija, a group of tedious teens unleash an evil entity haunting a specific set of tarot cards.
    Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 17 Dec. 2024
Definition of evil
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
Definition of contemptible
Adjective
  • The trouble is that there are dark sides to generative AI in general, plus there are nefarious people that will twist the Santa personas into the most dismal and disturbing of impressions.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Sometimes songs blow up at warp speed because of some nefarious industry marketing schemes.
    Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2024
Definition of nefarious
Adjective
  • Larraín’s third subject, Maria Callas, despite being born to an ignoble family and having to face wartime poverty during the 1940s, was no stranger to the trappings of an empyrean existence, but in constantly having to live up to it, like Diana, her life met an untimely end.
    Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 15 Dec. 2024
  • Anything can happen, but polling trends increasingly suggest that the presidency of Donald Trump, which has itself seemed like an eternity to many, may be heading to its ignoble end.
    Christopher R. Hill, Foreign Affairs, 19 June 2020
Definition of ignoble
Adjective
  • Mangione allegedly took a human life, which is despicable.
    Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2024
  • And now, a woman has lost her life because of this despicable act.
    Calvin Milliner, ABC News, 11 Dec. 2024
Definition of despicable
Adjective
  • Christ and his angels battled for your salvation, while the Devil and his many demonic spirits sought to trick and tempt, to pull you into their infernal kingdom.
    James Wood, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
  • The stake, with the hooded heretic, the black man or the witch attached to it, is the burning tree and body of the infernal world.
    John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
Definition of infernal
Adjective
  • Gasteyer plays the villainous queen with wicked abandon.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2024
  • The origin story centers on Kraven's upbringing under a ruthless crime lord dad (Russell Crowe) and journey to become the world's greatest hunter, with Ariana DeBose as voodoo priestess Calypso and Alessandro Nivola as villainous Rhino.
    KiMi Robinson, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2024
Definition of villainous
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