evildoers

noun

plural of evildoer
1
as in criminals
a person who commits moral wrongs if good people stand by and do nothing, evildoers will triumph

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2
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for evildoers
  1. criminals
  2. villains
  3. wrongdoers
  4. brutes
  5. sinners
  6. offenders
  7. monsters
  8. devils
Noun
  • The detective-heroines (and especially the actress-detectives) in this canon are careful about how performance might be extended to social duplicity, dishonesty, and fraud—but the lady criminals of Victorian detective fiction cross this line easily.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 July 2026
  • From 1873 to 1991, the island served as Costa Rica’s principal penitentiary, where some of the country’s worst criminals were sent to serve often short and torturous sentences.
    — Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 24 July 2026
Definition of criminals
Noun
  • Em details how Alan Rickman who played Hans Gruber, one of the most iconic villains in film history, offered director John McTiernan several key ideas that improved the film.
    — Frank Racioppi, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
  • That moment sealed his fate as one of the biggest Cubs villains in Cubs-Cardinals history.
    — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 26 July 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
Definition of brutes
Noun
  • That relationship was based on sinners confessing their sins to this vicar.
    — Pat Saperstein, Variety, 14 June 2026
  • Far too pure for the sinners who run this godless theocracy.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 29 Apr. 2026
Definition of sinners
Noun
  • The current penalty for disclosure violations is $200 for first-time offenders.
    — Justin Papp, CNBC, 22 July 2026
  • People who flout the ban will be kicked out of stations and multiple offenders could be given a permanent ban from the premises.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 21 July 2026
Definition of offenders
Noun
  • Over the last two seasons of Percy Jackson and the Olympians, the titular demigod (Walker Scobell) has faced off against a minotaur, sailed to the sea of monsters, been chased by Cerberus, and even magically transformed into a guinea pig.
    — Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 21 July 2026
  • With the franchise’s trademark blend of extreme gore and dark humor, the Evil Dead backstory centers on the ancient Book of the Dead that unleashes supernatural evil forces and twists victims into sadistic, shape-shifting, near-invincible monsters.
    — Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 21 July 2026
Definition of monsters
Noun
  • The 152 rooms celebrate Tasmania’s cultural and creative spirit, from the contemporary paintings of thylacines and Tasmanian devils, to the Blackheart sassafras ceiling inlays.
    — Riley Wilson, Travel + Leisure, 19 June 2026
  • But there are lots of potential devils in the details (otherwise there’d be little need for experimental reactors).
    — ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 9 June 2026
Definition of devils

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