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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.
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Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 19 Dec. 2024
Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 19 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for evil-minded
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The right flooring installer will leave you with a beautiful interior and a floor that can last for decades, while a disreputable one can bring you nothing but headaches and ongoing repairs.—
Dan Simms,
USA Today,
20 Feb. 2026
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Several of the participants are social media sensations or generally successful in different fields that the series treats as disreputable.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
11 Feb. 2026
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Or a family battling an evil monster.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA Today,
13 Feb. 2026
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Five years ago, Mamdani argued that the New York Police Department was essentially evil and should have its budget deeply slashed.—
Michael Powell,
The Atlantic,
11 Feb. 2026
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Your death was preventable, unjust, tragic, and contemptible; utterly contemptible.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
27 Jan. 2026
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Reuniting with their Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid director George Roy Hill, Newman and Redford play con men out to ruin a contemptible gangster (Robert Shaw), devising an elaborate scam with plenty of twists, turns, contrivances, and double crosses.—
Will Leitch,
Vulture,
15 Nov. 2025
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In the front lines of combat between scientists and bacteria, there's a notorious group of bugs that belong to a nefarious organization known as ESKAPE.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
10 Feb. 2026
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Meanwhile, Johnny Flynn will take on the role of Draco's nefarious father Lucius Malfoy in the series, and Pratt recently praised his new onscreen father to The Hollywood Reporter.—
Sydney Bucksbaum,
Entertainment Weekly,
10 Feb. 2026
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Here, however, Makowsky examines a purely ignoble figure who feels entitled without accomplishing a thing.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
6 Nov. 2025
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The Jets recently saw their local deliveries plummet to an ignoble 4.5 rating, which translates to a meager 350,530 Gang Green households tuning in to WBCS-2.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
10 Oct. 2025
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Epstein’s conduct, both the criminal and the merely despicable, had nothing whatsoever to do with the Mossad or the State of Israel.—
Efrat Lachter , Amelie Botbol,
FOXNews.com,
15 Feb. 2026
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The Department of Justice has launched a full investigation into the despicable incident that took place earlier today at a church in Minnesota.—
Kevin Shalvey,
ABC News,
20 Jan. 2026
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But in the case of the Rockies in recent years, that’s just been infernal noise.—
Patrick Saunders,
Denver Post,
15 Feb. 2026
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Those lessons are reinforced in songs (by Shawn Coleman), which sound like every infernal childhood jingle that ever got stuck in your head.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Jan. 2026
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Spencer famously had a villainous persona on the reality series and in the public spotlight, and his feuding with sister Stephanie was chronicled both on- and off-screen.—
Jackie Strause,
HollywoodReporter,
15 Feb. 2026
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Tech companies have denied the allegations made in the lawsuit and say internal documents are being twisted to portray them as villainous when there are other factors, such as childhood trauma, leading to the mental health issues of some of their users.—
Queenie Wong,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2026
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“Evil-minded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evil-minded. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.
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