Meaning

• Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good.

  "Evil lacks spirituality, hence its need for mind control."

• Something which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; something which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; harm; injury; mischief.

• A malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil (scrofula).

Meaning

• Intending to harm; malevolent.

  "an evil plot to brainwash and even kill innocent people"

• Morally corrupt.

  "Do you think that companies that engage in animal testing are evil?"

• Unpleasant, foul (of odour, taste, mood, weather, etc.).

• Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous.

• Having harmful qualities; not good; worthless or deleterious.

  "an evil beast; an evil plant; an evil crop"

• Undesirable; harmful; bad practice

  "Global variables are evil; storing processing context in object member variables allows those objects to be reused in a much more flexible way."