Clues for the word "EVIL"

We've had 620 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 2138 times in crosswords. It was last seen in LA Times crossword on July 23, 2026.

Definition of evil

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.