evil
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How evil fits the hive
Base Score
1
Before any pangram bonus
Unique Letters
4
E I L V
Two-Letter Start
EV
Useful for systematic scans
Ending
IL
Useful for cleanup scans
- 4 letters
- 4 unique letters
- EV start
- IL ending
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- evil is a four-letter word, so it is worth 1 point when accepted.
- It uses 4 unique letters, so it can fit boards that include e, i, l, v plus any remaining hive letters.
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Pronunciation
Definitions
noun
Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good.
"Evil lacks spirituality, hence its need for mind control."
noun
Something which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; something which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; harm; injury; mischief.
noun
A malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil (scrofula).
adjective
Intending to harm; malevolent.
"an evil plot to brainwash and even kill innocent people"
adjective
Morally corrupt.
"Do you think that companies that engage in animal testing are evil?"
adjective
Unpleasant, foul (of odour, taste, mood, weather, etc.).
adjective
Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous.
adjective
Having harmful qualities; not good; worthless or deleterious.
"an evil beast; an evil plant; an evil crop"
adjective
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."
adverb
Wickedly, evilly, iniquitously
adverb
Injuriously, harmfully; in a damaging way.
adverb
Badly, poorly; in an insufficient way.
Related Words
Same Letters
- live
- veil
- vile
Synonyms
- malevolent
- malicious
- nefarious
- wicked
Antonyms
- good
- good