Evil vs. Wicked

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

Eviladjective

Intending to harm; malevolent.

an evil plot to kill innocent people

Wickedadjective

Evil or mischievous by nature.

Eviladjective

Morally corrupt.

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

Wickedadjective

(slang) Excellent; awesome; masterful.

That was a wicked guitar solo, bro!

Eviladjective

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

Wickedadjective

Having a wick.

a two-wicked lamp
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Eviladjective

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

Wickedadjective

Active; brisk.

Eviladjective

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

an evil beast; an evil plant; an evil crop

Wickedadjective

(Alternative form of) wick (Etymology 3 Adjective), as applying to inanimate objects only.

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.

Wickedadjective

Infested with maggots.

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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.

Wickedadverb

Very, extremely.

The band we went to see the other night was wicked loud!

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.

Wickednoun

People who are wicked.

Evilnoun

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

Wickedverb

simple past tense and past participle of wick

Evilnoun

morally objectionable behavior

Wickedadjective

morally bad in principle or practice

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

Wickedadjective

having committed unrighteous acts;

a sinful person

Evilnoun

the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice;

attempts to explain the origin of evil in the world

Wickedadjective

intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality;

severe paina severe case of flua terrible coughunder wicked fire from the enemy's gunsa wicked cough

Eviladjective

morally bad or wrong;

evil purposesan evil influenceevil deeds

Wickedadjective

morally bad or wrong;

evil purposesan evil influenceevil deeds

Eviladjective

having the nature of vice

Wickedadjective

highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust;

a disgusting smelldistasteful languagea loathsome diseasethe idea of eating meat is repellent to merevolting fooda wicked stench

Eviladjective

tending to cause great harm

Eviladjective

having or exerting a malignant influence;

malevolent starsa malefic force