Bad vs. Evil

Bad vs. Evil — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Bad and Evil

Badadjective

Unfavorable; negative; not good.

You have bad credit.The weather looks pretty bad right now.Don't talk to him; he's in a bad mood.

Eviladjective

Intending to harm; malevolent.

an evil plot to kill innocent people

Badadjective

Not suitable or fitting.

Do you think it is a bad idea to confront him directly?

Eviladjective

Morally corrupt.

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

Badadjective

Not appropriate, of manners etc.

It is bad manners to talk with your mouth full.

Eviladjective

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

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Badadjective

Unhealthy; liable to cause health problems.

Lard is bad for you. Smoking is bad for you, too. Grapes are bad for dogs but not for humans.

Eviladjective

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

Badadjective

Sickly, unhealthy, unwell.

Joe's in a bad way; he can't even get out of bed.I went to the hospital to see how my grandfather was doing. Unfortunately, he's in a bad state.I've had a bad back since the accident.

Eviladjective

(obsolete) Having harmful qualities; not good; worthless or deleterious.

an evil beast; an evil plant; an evil crop

Badadjective

Tricky; stressful; unpleasant.

Divorce is usually a bad experience for everybody involved.

Eviladjective

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.
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Badadjective

Evil; wicked.

Be careful. There are bad people in the world.

Evilnoun

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

The evils of society include murder and theft.Evil lacks spirituality, hence its need for mind control.

Badadjective

Faulty; not functional.

I had a bad headlight.

Evilnoun

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.

Badadjective

(of food) Spoiled, rotten, overripe.

These apples have gone bad.

Evilnoun

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

Badadjective

(of breath) Malodorous; foul.

Bad breath is not pleasant for anyone.

Evilnoun

morally objectionable behavior

Badadjective

False; counterfeit; illegitimate.

They were caught trying to pass bad coinage.

Evilnoun

that which causes harm or destruction or misfortune;

the evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones

Badadjective

Unskilled; of limited ability; not good.

I'm pretty bad at speaking French.He's a bad gardener; everything he tries to grow ends up dying.

Evilnoun

the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice;

attempts to explain the origin of evil in the world

Badadjective

Of poor physical appearance.

I look really bad whenever I get less than seven hours of sleep.I don't look bad in this dress, do I?

Eviladjective

morally bad or wrong;

evil purposesan evil influenceevil deeds

Badadjective

(informal) Bold and daring.

Eviladjective

having the nature of vice

Badadjective

(hip-hop slang) Good; superlative.

Eviladjective

tending to cause great harm

Badadjective

Severe, urgent.

He is in bad need of a haircut.

Eviladjective

having or exerting a malignant influence;

malevolent starsa malefic force

Badadjective

Overly promiscuous, licentious.

Badadjective

(slang) Fantastic.

You is SIC bad, man!

Badadverb

Badly.

I didn't do too bad in the last exam.

Badnoun

(slang) Error, mistake.

Sorry, my bad!

Badnoun

An item (or kind of item) of merchandise with negative value; an unwanted good.

Badverb

(archaic) lang=en. See bade.

Badverb

To shell (a walnut).

Badnoun

that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency;

take the bad with the good

Badadjective

having undesirable or negative qualities;

a bad report cardhis sloppy appearance made a bad impressiona bad little boyclothes in bad shapea bad cutbad luckthe news was very badthe reviews were badthe pay is badit was a bad light for readingthe movie was a bad choice

Badadjective

very intense;

a bad headachein a big ragehad a big (or bad) shocka bad earthquakea bad storm

Badadjective

feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad');

my throat feels badshe felt bad all overhe was feeling tough after a restless night

Badadjective

(of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition;

bad meata refrigerator full of spoilt food

Badadjective

not capable of being collected;

a bad (or uncollectible) debt

Badadjective

below average in quality or performance;

a bad chess playera bad recital

Badadjective

nonstandard;

so-called bad grammar

Badadjective

not financially safe or secure;

a bad investmenthigh risk investmentsanything that promises to pay too much can't help being riskyspeculative business enterprises

Badadjective

physically unsound or diseased;

has a bad backa bad heartbad teethan unsound limbunsound teeth

Badadjective

capable of harming;

bad habitsbad airsmoking is bad for you

Badadjective

keenly sorry or regretful;

felt bad about letting the team downwas sorry that she had treated him so badlyfelt bad about breaking the vase

Badadjective

characterized by wickedness or immorality;

led a very bad life

Badadjective

reproduced fraudulently;

like a bad penny...a forged twenty dollar bill

Badadjective

not working properly;

a bad telephone connectiona defective appliance

Badadverb

with great intensity (`bad' is a nonstandard variant for `badly');

the injury hurt badlythe buildings were badly shakenit hurts badwe need water bad

Badadverb

very much; strongly;

I wanted it badly enough to work hard for itthe cables had sagged badlythey were badly in need of helphe wants a bicycle so bad he can taste it