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Recent Examples of evildoer Only evildoers proven guilty of murder were acceptable game to satisfy Dexter's bloodlust. Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2024 The point being, Joker’s role in The Batman Part II might be as both instigator within Arkham and eventually part of an ensemble of evildoers elevating the threat level in the film’s back half. Mark Hughes, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024 If the evildoers weren’t readily allowed access to the AI, the barrier to their dastardly ways would be stiffened. Lance Eliot, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024 At least with a plot or a scheme there are bad actors to blame, evildoers to curse, enemies to get revenge on. Brian Grubb, Vulture, 30 June 2024 See All Example Sentences for evildoer
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Noun
  • The film follows an American student (Seberg) in Paris who loves a dangerous criminal (Belmondo) obsessed with Humphrey Bogart.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 20 Mar. 2025
  • There were radicals, activists, intellectuals as well as common criminals, the usual power brokers, and always a mob lurking in the background.
    Phil Terrana, Baltimore Sun, 20 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The real villains, says Mozaffarian, are excessive amounts of refined grains, starches, and sugars, as well as salt and other preservatives, chemical additives, and contaminants from packaging.
    Sarah Boden, NPR, 14 Mar. 2025
  • In the comics, Sinestro starts off as a member of the Green Lantern Corp, eventually becoming a villain and starting his own Sinestro Corp.
    Mark Davis, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The promise of criminal prosecution of a person responsible for such a death may seem righteous and like an effective deterrent against future wrongdoers.
    Michael Abrams, Baltimore Sun, 17 Feb. 2025
  • In a mythical world, justice proceeds like this: After being wronged by a government injustice, a victim lawyers up and sues the government wrongdoer.
    James S. Burling, National Review, 23 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • By the end of the episode, the audience is eager to meet the antihero, the brute, that everyone is talking about.
    Maelle Beauget-Uhl, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Slinging a sports coat over his pajamas, Long pulls up to a curb and finds Tay (Dustin Nguyen), the Vietnamese speaker, plus two silent brutes, Eddie (Phi Vu) and Aden (Dali Benssalah), who muscle into his car and take over everything: the seating arrangements, the air freshener and their driver.
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Unlike in the Inferno, in which Dante meets many monologuing sinners, each vividly portrayed, McCrae’s narrator encounters conspicuously few.
    Elisa Gonzalez, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
  • To the very end, King—an imperfect man and sinner, as all Christians are—did what he was called to do: preach and teach Jesus Christ's radical message of love.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Fing turns out to be as much as a destructive monster as Myrtle, who in turn, has to battle it out with the evil animal park owner, The Viscount, who is determined to own this rarest of creatures.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Fing turns out to be as much as a destructive monster as Myrtle, who in turn, must battle it out with the evil animal park owner, The Viscount (Waititi), who is determined to own this rarest of creatures.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 19 Mar. 2025

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