Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun evil behavior.
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- noun An
evil orwicked act or behaviour, especially such acrime .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of transgressing; the violation of a law or a duty or moral principle
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Examples
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I think she puts the kid with the mask out front so she can do her evildoing from the comfort of either her Rascal or Wal-Mart Lawn and Garden chair unnoticed.
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After the expulsion from Paradise of Adam and Eve, Satan and his followers did not return to Hell, but remained on earth, the fallen angels becoming the evil gods of various idolatrous nations and Satan engaging in every kind of evildoing which he knew would vex the Powers of Heaven.
National Epics Kate Milner Rabb 1901
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Like that classic bit of American animation, much of the comedy comes from taking people that we view as comic book super-villains and presented them and their day-to-day evildoing as exceedingly mundane.
Scott Mendelson: Huff Post Review: Four Lions (2010) Scott Mendelson 2010
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What scintilla of evidence is there that our evildoing enemies are currently pursuing, or ever have been, a strategy of menial labour infiltration?
London Olympics security panics deserve their place in the Sun | Marina Hyde 2012
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Like that classic bit of American animation, much of the comedy comes from taking people that we view as comic book super-villains and presented them and their day-to-day evildoing as exceedingly mundane.
Scott Mendelson: Huff Post Review: Four Lions (2010) Scott Mendelson 2010
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For a while this was shaping up as, if not quite one of football's most evil weeks, then at least a week when football could look back on its evildoing with a sense of having gone out there and really done a job.
It's time to admit football is pure evil | Barney Ronay 2011
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As a mother and a frequent animal-bite observer, of course I'd like more laws targeting these evildoing, dog-wielding creeps (not least because the dogs suffer, too).
Veterinarian fully vets the issue of guns, laws and pit bulls 2010
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There will even be scorn for those who suggest that innocent victims are innocent victims no matter who they are -- an observation which will quickly be written off by some at the bottom of this article as mendacious moral equivalence, or willful ignorance of the obvious malice and evildoing of one side -- take your pick -- toward the other.
Bradley Burston: Terrorism, Racism, and the Idea That Israelis Are People, Too Bradley Burston 2011
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Machiavelli admired Borgia for enforcing the summary punishment of evildoing without incurring the hatred of his subjects.
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They equate risk taking with wanton greed and evildoing.
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