evil
Because it is a word with a single syllable, evil is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions ofevil
- Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good.
Example: "Evil lacks spirituality, hence its need for mind control."
- Something which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; something which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; harm; injury; mischief.
- A malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil (scrofula).
- Intending to harm; malevolent.
Example: "an evil plot to brainwash and even kill innocent people"
- Morally corrupt.
Example: "Do you think that companies that engage in animal testing are evil?"
- Unpleasant, foul (of odour, taste, mood, weather, etc.).
- Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous.
- Having harmful qualities; not good; worthless or deleterious.
Example: "an evil beast; an evil plant; an evil crop"
- Undesirable; harmful; bad practice
Example: "Global variables are evil; storing processing context in object member variables allows those objects to be reused in a much more flexible way."
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