Xấu, ác, có hại

of evil repute

có tiếng xấu

an evil tongue

ác khẩu

an evil eye

cái nhìn hãm tài, cái nhìn độc địa

Cái xấu, điều ác; tội lỗi; cái (có) hại; điều tai hại, tai hoạ

to speak evil of someone

nói xấu ai

to choose the less of two evils

giữa hai cái hại chọn cái ít hại hơn

(từ cổ,nghĩa cổ) bệnh tràng nhạc

necessary evil

điều không muốn nhưng phải chấp nhận

Bad, awful, wrong, immoral, wicked, sinful, nefarious,iniquitous, base, corrupt, vile, accursed, damnable, villainous,heinous, infamous, flagitious, foul, nasty, abominable,atrocious, horrible, horrid, ghastly, grisly, dreadful,depraved, vicious, malevolent, maleficent, malefic,black-hearted, evil-minded: He was an evil tyrant who killedanyone who opposed him.

Treacherous, traitorous, perfidious,insidious, unscrupulous, unprincipled, dishonest, dishonourable,crooked, criminal, felonious, knavish, sinister, underhand(ed),dirty, corrupt: He thought up an evil plan for getting rid ofhis wife.

Harmful, destructive, hurtful, injurious,mischievous, detrimental, ruinous, deleterious, disastrous,catastrophic, pernicious, noxious, malignant, malign, virulent,toxic, poisonous, deadly, lethal: Evil policies werepromulgated against minority groups, and racist attacksabounded. 4 unfortunate, unlucky, ominous, inauspicious, dire,unpropitious, calamitous, infelicitous, woeful: Their businesshad fallen on evil times.

Bad, offensive, disgusting,repulsive, awful, nasty, mephitic, noxious, foul, pestilential,putrid, vile; disagreeable, unpleasant: An evil odour permeatedthe crypt.

N.

Badness, sin, vice, wickedness, iniquity, turpitude,immorality, profligacy, depravity, degeneracy, corruption,degradation, devilry or deviltry, villainy, nefariousness,viciousness, vileness, heinousness, flagitiousness, baseness,foulness: The evil that men do lives after them, the good isoft interred with their bones. 7 harm, hurt, injury, mischief,damage, ruin, calamity, misfortune, catastrophe, destruction,disaster, cataclysm; ill, misery, suffering, pain, sorrow, woe,agony, anguish: Evil befell the residents of Pompeii.

Adj.

Morally bad; wicked.

Harmful or tendingto harm, esp. intentionally or characteristically.

Disagreeable or unpleasant (has an evil temper).

Unlucky;causing misfortune (evil days).

N.

An evil thing; aninstance of something evil.

Evil quality; wickedness, harm.

Evilly adv.evilness n. [OE yfel f. Gmc]