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
  • In defense of my actions, as a general rule, mother-of-the-bride dresses are evil monstrosities.
    Sherry Kuehl, Kansas City Star, 29 Jan. 2025
  • One of the most recognizable celebrations is lion dance troupes, a dramatic tradition meant to usher in the New Year and expel evil spirits.
    Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Despite his more contemptible tendencies of the past decade, Chappelle is a tremendously gifted stand-up at heart, and these sprawling monologues are always exciting.
    Joe Berkowitz, Vulture, 19 Jan. 2025
  • 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
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
  • Nullification is a step toward repeating a despicable event.
    Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2025
  • The despicable crime perpetrated by Hamas on 7 October 2023 is still very real to all of us.
    Amanda Castro, Newsweek, 14 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
  • He’s helped in this regard by Wahlberg in his first truly villainous role since 1996’s Fear.
    Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Jan. 2025

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

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