evil-minded

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Recent Examples of evil-minded Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 19 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for evil-minded
Adjective
  • Collecting vast sums of cash-on-loan from some particularly disreputable business associates, Charles opened The Egyptian Tomb Lounge in Reno, Nevada, which operated for a grand total of four months before unceremoniously burning to the ground.
    Hazlitt, Hazlitt, 18 June 2025
  • With World War II moving into the realm of history, in the mid-1950s Jews were being depicted not as alien or disreputable immigrants but rather as members of a respected American religion, reflected in a middlebrow literary culture that reached a mainstream audience.
    Rachel Gordan, Sun Sentinel, 17 June 2025
Adjective
  • The inexcusable, evil acts of an individual.
    ABC News, ABC News, 14 Sep. 2025
  • He and his followers were locked in a battle with an enemy that was not just ideologically opposed but unwell, possibly evil.
    Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The death of Pope Francis, sadly, has not escaped the attention of these truly contemptible criminals.
    Davey Winder, Forbes.com, 24 Apr. 2025
  • At the time, some of LeBron’s critics saw this as contemptible.
    Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • In a 2004 study, the United States Institute of Peace said that hundreds of terrorist groups had migrated online, utilizing a tool meant for better communication for often nefarious purposes.
    Richard Frankel, ABC News, 11 Sep. 2025
  • For example, the agency might become corrupt and those running AGI start to use the AGI for their own nefarious purposes.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • This is an ignoble plan that cites dubious science while elevating the entertainment of a handful of hunters over the revulsion of most Floridians.
    Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 July 2025
  • My focus is down to the ignoble little health annoyances that seem to cap and even eclipse a major setback.
    John Updike, New Yorker, 11 July 2025
Adjective
  • Foster, who was so good as Henry Haft in another brutal boxing story The Survivor, here is on the other side playing a despicable man who fortunately now in real life is in prison.
    Pete Hammond, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2025
  • But between the individual Smurfs, the deliciously despicable Gargamel, and his equally evil cat Azrael, the series kept the kids coming back for nine seasons, creating enough fond memories to turn the Smurfs into a film franchise three decades later.
    Will Harris, EW.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • There, the adults mate, and the mass erupts like an infernal, infectious volcano, spewing out eggs.
    Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Roughly once a week, Nick Cave blogs about music, religion, grief, and the infernal state of world affairs through the medium of fan correspondence in his Red Hand Files newsletter.
    Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 29 July 2025
Adjective
  • Waltz is known for playing villainous roles, perhaps most notably in the James Bond franchise film Spectre and Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, the latter of which earned him an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.
    Olivia Singh, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Batman has always been skeptical of magic, but nonetheless gets drawn into an investigation that involves Constantine, Etrigan, Zatanna, Deadman, Black Orchid, and Swamp Thing, leading them all into battle with villainous sorcerer Felix Faust.
    Will Harris, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Sep. 2025

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“Evil-minded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evil-minded. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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