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 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
  • This 2003 film, from the notoriously disreputable German director Uwe Boll, contained practically no coherent ideas, and its primary motivation seemed to be to cram as many bare breasts, exploding corpses and nu-metal songs into one movie as the Motion Picture Association of America would allow.
    Calum Marsh, New York Times, 21 May 2025
Adjective
  • Unfortunately, those lofty first-act ambitions give way to something much more formulaic, as Buzz joins forces with the usual ragtag bunch of misfits to battle the evil Emperor Zurg.
    Richard Edwards, Space.com, 20 June 2025
  • In Twin Peaks, Deputy Chief Hawk and Sheriff Frank Truman—filling in for ailing brother Frank—work on following a lead phoned in by an ailing Log Lady, while Richard Horne, son of Audrey Horne and Cooper’s evil double, spiraling into depravity and addiction, kills a child in a hit-and-run.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 20 June 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
  • Upon agreeing to the experimental procedure, the couple learns just how nefarious the deal really is.
    Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 14 June 2025
  • How Predators May Be Exploiting This Trend These videos may also unknowingly exposing young girls to predators or adults with nefarious intentions.
    Sherri Gordon, Parents, 14 June 2025
Adjective
  • The janky but oddly addictive Friday the 13th: The Game goes offline for good at the end of the year — an ignoble but perhaps inevitable fate for an interactive slasher that’s been plagued by problems since its rocky launch in 2017.
    A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 13 Sep. 2024
  • And bugs’ ignoble practices exert fascination on poets too.
    Hannah Brooks-Motl June 2, Literary Hub, 2 June 2025
Adjective
  • The tricky thing is that the Jackal, across the 10 episodes, does despicable acts of violence and betrayal in order to achieve his goal.
    Ryan Fleming, Deadline, 19 June 2025
  • The deployment showdown also led to one of the state’s most despicable standoffs.
    Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 15 June 2025
Adjective
  • An infernal barrage of blazes continues to ravage the Los Angeles metropolitan region, where the death toll has now risen to at least 10 individuals.
    Sharon Udasin, The Hill, 10 Jan. 2025
  • The damaged reactor cores continue to glow with infernal heat, so plant employees must keep spraying them with water to cool them and prevent another meltdown.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 28 Feb. 2014
Adjective
  • And yes, the villainous Shooter McGavin (Christopher McDonald) also returns, reviving his rivalry with with Happy in what appears to be a graveyard.
    Allison DeGrushe Published, EW.com, 19 June 2025
  • These junior versions of some of of Marvel's superheroes feature Spidey, Ghost-Spider, and Miles Morales as they team-up to stop villainous plots in the city.
    DeVonne Goode, Parents, 19 June 2025

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“Evil-minded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evil-minded. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.

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