EVILDOERS Synonyms: 84 Similar and Opposite Words

evildoers

noun

plural of evildoer

as in criminals

a person who commits moral wrongs if good people stand by and do nothing, evildoers will triumph

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as in villains

a mean, evil, or unprincipled person Iago from Shakespeare's Othello became one of the most notorious evildoers in all of literature

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Recent Examples of evildoers And he was jacked, a hulking man who was not afraid to drop-kick a kid who was part of a gang of evildoers. — Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 25 June 2026 This might be a clever ploy by AI makers or evildoers. — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 21 June 2026 With the right story hook, gameplay overhaul, and look, a team of anthropomorphic animals taking on galactic evildoers with agile spaceships in a fun and colorful sci-fi setting feels like an easy win — especially for a company like Nintendo. — Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 22 Apr. 2026 At over 1,200 miles, there’s room to encounter evildoers along the way and fight the weather to deliver the tree by Christmas. — Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Dec. 2025 That makes your account with the cleanup service a juicy target for evildoers who specialize in misusing personal data. — PC Magazine, 13 Aug. 2025

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Noun

North Carolina politician says Democrats are coddling criminals Records also list a September 2025 simple-assault charge and a March 2025 charge of assault on a female.

— Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 8 Aug. 2026
Even if Anna Pigeon carries a gun with cuffs, as real-life law enforcement rangers do, there's much more to the job and character than chasing down criminals.

— Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 7 Aug. 2026

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Friendly neighborhood Spider-Man, U30 lister Tom Holland, is back on the screen to beat both villains and records.

— Alexandra York, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
The aforementioned Richie Aprile, played wonderfully by David Proval, makes for one of the most menacing villains of the series.

— Austin Perry OutKick, FOXNews.com, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of villains

Noun

New York’s Bivens Act remedies this by extending the protections of Section 1983 to all individual government wrongdoers — including federal ones.

— Joel B. Rudin, New York Daily News, 28 June 2026
The overpowering moral authority of wronged women, #MeToo’s skeptics alleged, would allow cynical wrongdoers to weaponize claims of victimhood for their own gain.

— Moira Donegan, New Yorker, 9 June 2026

Definition of wrongdoers

Noun

These brutes commonly exceed 50 pounds.

— Keith Sutton, Outdoor Life, 18 June 2026
In Raspail’s tale, hordes of impoverished and dark-skinned brutes from India descend onto French shores by way of rafts, the first wave of an invasion of the civilized West by the brown-skinned developing world.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 Apr. 2026

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This high-security prison is a sprawling complex that houses thousands of detainees, including notorious gangsters, terrorists and prominent white-collar offenders.

— Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 9 Aug. 2026
Based upon their replies, occupying Allied officials ranked their culpability, then tried the worst offenders — most famously in the Nuremberg trials, but also in numerous local tribunals.

— Fern Schumer Chapman, Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of offenders

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But Kova is shocked to discover her sweetheart taking up with someone new, who may be linked to the monsters dragging Stormwatch’s inhabitants into the ocean.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Aug. 2026
For additional context, the war against the Locust kicks off only a few weeks after the 79-year conflict between human factions known as the Pendulum Wars, which explains why the COG wasn't in the best of conditions when the monsters attacked.

— Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 2 Aug. 2026

Definition of monsters

Noun

In 2025, two Tasmanian devils arrived at the Australian Outback exhibit.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 July 2026
Tasmanian devils suffer from Devil Facial Tumor Disease (DFTD), a highly fatal cancer spread by biting, which has devastated their population and surprisingly arose twice.

— John Drake, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026

Definition of devils

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