evil-minded

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Recent Examples of evil-minded Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 19 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for evil-minded
Adjective
  • Linked in the comments to the Threads post is a longer article posted to a disreputable website that includes an image shared Dec. 22, 2024, by The Patriots Network – another account in SpaceXMania's network – with a watermark identifying the claim as a fabrication.
    Joedy McCreary, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2025
  • His solo debut Compassion gracefully straddles juvenilia and maturity: The music is dreamy, inventive, steeped in youthful obsessions and disreputable radio hits from the ’90s.
    SPIN Team, SPIN, 28 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • After all, how many evil corporations have started because a guy got embarrassed about his wiener in the woods?
    Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Feb. 2025
  • Other groups saw them as fires generated by evil sky spirits.
    Ari Daniel, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Despite his more contemptible tendencies of the past decade, Chappelle is a tremendously gifted stand-up at heart, and these sprawling monologues are always exciting.
    Joe Berkowitz, Vulture, 19 Jan. 2025
  • Fiona Shaw is so perfectly contemptible throughout those scenes on the sailboat, rendering Angelica so completely self-absorbed and so cruel, that her likely death feels like an immediate relief.
    Caroline Framke, Vulture, 4 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Adapted from Stephen King’s 1980 short story of the same name, The Monkey traces the tragic history of twin brothers Hal and Bill Shelburn who, as children, discover a nefarious drumming toy monkey amid the junk their father left behind.
    Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Brian plays the other three for nefarious ends that are not immediately revealed.
    Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 2 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • But on this southern front of the Trump empire, Palm Beach County, Donald Trump is flirting with ignoble defeat.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2025
  • This is something of an ignoble cap to one of the worst years of Rodgers' illustrious career.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 29 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • This is such utterly despicable and dangerous self-dealing.
    Letters to the Editor, Orlando Sentinel, 8 Feb. 2025
  • Nullification is a step toward repeating a despicable event.
    Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The wildfires scorching Southern California are turning entire neighborhoods into ash, decimating expensive properties and exacerbating an insurance crisis that predates the infernal blazes.
    Sharon Udasin, The Hill, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Because of the infernal heat and swamplike humidity at Beech Bend, there was a lot of prep work to be done before the Nostalgia Nationals elimination rounds could commence.
    Rachel Kushner, Harper's Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • On the small screen, the actor was one half of a buddy cop duo in Battle Creek (2015) before taking on a villainous role in the Stephen King adaptation 11.22.63 (2016) and a heroic one in Netflix’s superhero series Jupiter's Legacy (2021).
    Danny Horn, EW.com, 2 Feb. 2025
  • Hoult made his way back into the picture as the villainous Lex Luthor, and Portuguese model Sara Sampaio has been cast as his assistant Eve Teschmacher.
    Zoe Guy, Vulture, 28 Jan. 2025

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“Evil-minded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evil-minded. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.

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