Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that performs evil acts.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who does evil; one who commits moral wrong.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a person who performs an evil deed; one who sins (without repenting).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who performs
evil acts .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who sins (without repenting)
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Examples
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Again and again, administration officials have insisted that some particular evildoer is causing all our problems.
April 2004 2004
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He ... angry -- literally, "short of anger" (compare Pr 14: 29, opposite idea). man ... hated -- that is, the deliberate evildoer is more hated than the rash.
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One of the main differences from September 11th and today is that back then I knew that the evildoer was a crazy person in a cave outside the country.
Jeannie Ralston: Why October 6th Felt Like September 11th 2008
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An 'evildoer' by any other name: How labels shape our attitudes toward violence
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We'd want all terrorists to carry a card that says "evildoer" and everyone else to carry a card that said "honest person who won't try to hijack or blow up anything."
Boing Boing: February 1, 2004 - February 7, 2004 Archives 2004
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As you know, tyrants comprise only a small subgroup within the vast "evildoer" big tent.
Archive 2005-01-01 2005
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As you know, tyrants comprise only a small subgroup within the vast "evildoer" big tent.
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We'd want all terrorists to carry a card that says "evildoer" and everyone else to carry a card that said "honest person who won't try to hijack or blow up anything."
Archive 2004-02-01 2004
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(OSAKA, Japan) - In the trigger-happy post-9/11 world, the favoured way to instigate a war is to demand that the designated "evildoer" prove a negative.
Salem-News.com 2010
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One motive driving Dubya could be his need "to prove himself to his father - to achieve what his father failed to do - to finish the job of the Gulf War, to get the 'evildoer' Saddam."
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