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as in criminal
a person who commits moral wrongs
if good people stand by and do nothing, evildoers will triumph
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as in villain
a mean, evil, or unprincipled person
Iago from Shakespeare's Othello became one of the most notorious evildoers in all of literature
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Recent Examples of evildoer
Disney World reveals 'delightfully wicked' villains show to replace Cars experience with dozens of classic evildoers
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EW.com, 10 Sep. 2024
Two people are knocked out, hung from a ceiling and threatened with death as part of an effort to stop evildoers from detonating nuclear bombs in major cities.
—Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 19 July 2024
Fuss, fume, gnash teeth and point fingers at evildoers, real or imagined?
—Colbert I. King, Washington Post, 19 July 2024
The 2010’s Disney collaboration featured four mini capsules of our favorite love-to-hate-them evildoers like Cruella de Vil, Snow White's Evil Queen, Dr. Facilier, and of course — Maleficent, who is getting the spotlight this time around.
—Karina Hoshikawa, refinery29.com, 4 Apr. 2024
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EW.com, 10 Sep. 2024
Two people are knocked out, hung from a ceiling and threatened with death as part of an effort to stop evildoers from detonating nuclear bombs in major cities.
—Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 19 July 2024
Fuss, fume, gnash teeth and point fingers at evildoers, real or imagined?
—Colbert I. King, Washington Post, 19 July 2024
The 2010’s Disney collaboration featured four mini capsules of our favorite love-to-hate-them evildoers like Cruella de Vil, Snow White's Evil Queen, Dr. Facilier, and of course — Maleficent, who is getting the spotlight this time around.
—Karina Hoshikawa, refinery29.com, 4 Apr. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for evildoer
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Its undeniably a humanitarian crisis and a very real security threat because of drug cartels, criminals and terrorists crossing the border.Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Orange County Register, 5 Nov. 2024
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The Jordanians will soar like eagles to hunt you down, one criminal after another.Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
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Marlena’s John is an iconic hero, and unfailingly rescuing her from all matter of villains.Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 4 Nov. 2024
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The film stars, of all people, Hugh Grant, who is said to have an amazing turn as a villain in the film.Paul Tassi, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
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So there's a law firm in Seattle that has mounted a lot of very famous successful class action suits against large wrongdoers.Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2024
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Local leaders say public pieces like murals and sculptures have the power to both beautify and protect the city by letting would-be wrongdoers know that a community is cared for.Justin L. Mack, Axios, 10 Oct. 2024
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The Penguin's Falcone is every bit the misogynistic brute, but his actions are relegated to the off-screen imagination by being implied, rather than shown.Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 24 Oct. 2024
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The part originally played by Timothy Olyphant has been taken over by Adam Driver—a specialist in magnetic brutes—whose recent movie roles have tended to be titular titans of industry and/or guys with accents.Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2024
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In between the two extremes of saints and (supposed) sinners were women who joined religious communities, dedicating their lives to the worship of God.Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2024
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And unlike many of those films, its avoidance of forgiveness as a simple fix in turn avoids shifting the responsibility of the sin away from the sinner to the victim.Robert Daniels, TIME, 18 Oct. 2024
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Frankly, this is a hard argument to dispute, but the guy is ultimately the movie’s monster, so his ideology has to be sufficiently challenged by the time the credits roll.Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
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Hung was also instrumental in creating the jiangshi genre of horror kung fu in the 1980s, inspired by his childhood love of ghosts and monsters.Gavin J Blair, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Nov. 2024
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“Evildoer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evildoer. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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