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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Having evil thoughts, opinions, or intentions.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having an evil mind; having evil dispositions or intentions; disposed to mischief or vice; malicious; malignant; wicked.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having evil dispositions or intentions; disposed to mischief or sin; malicious; malignant; wicked.

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  • adjective Having evil thoughts or intentions.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective having evil thoughts or intentions

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Examples

  • Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers.

    The Conservative Assault on the Constitution Erwin Chemerinsky 2010

  • I will gladly keep supporting the DNC to combat the evil-minded plans of those who have the GOP in their nasty grip right now.

    DNC raises more than $9 million in July 2009

  • At worst, he was a weak-willed, empty-headed, partially-recovered alcoholic led around by powerful, evil-minded, self-serving, greasy little schemers like Dick Cheney who led us into war for no larger reason than their own greed and vanity.

    OMG! Knit dinosaurs playing guitar! frankwu 2010

  • The sentimentality of these evil-minded men about fetuses is astounding.

    Arizonas bad, Oklahomas worse 2010

  • Well I remember the latter days of Stalinism, and the denunciations that flowed against citizens of the world like myself, unbridled, evil-minded cosmopolitans, profiteers with no roots and no conscience … Grown on rotten yeast of bourgeois cosmopolitanism, decadence and formalism … non-indigenous nationals without a motherland, who poison with stench … our proletarian culture.

    Archive 2009-06-01 2009

  • Ugh! the clucking, evil-minded monsters, finding wrong in everything, seeing sin in the most innocent actions, and suggesting sin -- yes, causing sin -- by their diseased imaginings.

    Chapter 13 2010

  • This commentary coming from the most incompetent, criminal, vindictive, and evil-minded VP this country's ever had.

    Cheney hits 'radical' Obama 2009

  • Rounding up 120,000 Japanese Americans didn’t slow down the ambitions of the empire of Japan, and I don’t think rounding up Muslim Americans will stop the machinations of evil-minded people along the Afghan/Pakistani border.

    Jamie Ford - An interview with author 2010

  • But there you are again, worrying about what idiots and the generally evil-minded will think of you.

    Chapter 13 2010

  • Rounding up 120,000 Japanese Americans didn’t slow down the ambitions of the empire of Japan, and I don’t think rounding up Muslim Americans will stop the machinations of evil-minded people along the Afghan/Pakistani border.

    Jamie Ford - An interview with author 2010

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