(a.) Having qualities tending to injury and mischief; having a
nature or properties which tend to badness; mischievous; not good;
worthless or deleterious; poor; as, an evil beast; and evil plant; an
evil crop.
(a.) Having or exhibiting bad moral qualities; morally corrupt;
wicked; wrong; vicious; as, evil conduct, thoughts, heart, words, and
the like.
(a.) Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or
calamity; unpropitious; calamitous; as, evil tidings; evil arrows; evil
days.
(n.) Anything which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a
being of any good; anything which causes suffering of any kind to
sentient beings; injury; mischief; harm; -- opposed to good.
(n.) Moral badness, or the deviation of a moral being from the
principles of virtue imposed by conscience, or by the will of the
Supreme Being, or by the principles of a lawful human authority;
disposition to do wrong; moral offence; wickedness; depravity.
(n.) malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil, the
scrofula.
(adv.) In an evil manner; not well; ill; badly; unhappily;
injuriously; unkindly.
