Evil vs. Vile

Eviladjective

Intending to harm; malevolent.

‘an evil plot to kill innocent people’;

Vileadjective

Morally low; base; despicable.

Eviladjective

Morally corrupt.

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

Vileadjective

Causing physical or mental repulsion; horrid.

‘I glimpsed a vile squid-like creature in the depths.’;

Eviladjective

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

Vileadjective

Low; base; worthless; mean; despicable.

‘A poor man in vile raiment.’; ‘The craft either of fishing, which was Peter's, or of making tents, which was Paul's, were [was] more vile than the science of physic.’; ‘The inhabitants account gold but as a vile thing.’;

Eviladjective

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

Vileadjective

Morally base or impure; depraved by sin; hateful in the sight of God and men; sinful; wicked; bad.

‘Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee ?’;

Eviladjective

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

‘an evil beast; an evil plant; an evil crop’;

Vileadjective

morally reprehensible;

‘would do something as despicable as murder’; ‘ugly crimes’; ‘the vile development of slavery appalled them’;

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.’;

Vileadjective

thoroughly unpleasant;

‘filthy (or foul or nasty or vile) weather we're having’;

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.’;

Vileadjective

causing or able to cause nausea;

‘a nauseating smell’; ‘nauseous offal’; ‘a sickening stench’;

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.

Evilnoun

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

Eviladjective

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 good tree can not bring forth evil fruit.’;

Eviladjective

Having or exhibiting bad moral qualities; morally corrupt; wicked; wrong; vicious; as, evil conduct, thoughts, heart, words, and the like.

‘Ah, what a sign it is of evil life,When death's approach is seen so terrible.’;

Eviladjective

Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous; as, evil tidings; evil arrows; evil days.

‘Because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel.’; ‘The owl shrieked at thy birth - an evil sign.’; ‘Evil news rides post, while good news baits.’; ‘It almost led him to believe in the evil eye.’;

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; - opposed to good.

‘Evils which our own misdeeds have wrought.’; ‘The evil that men do lives after them.’;

Evilnoun

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.

‘The heart of the sons of men is full of evil.’;

Evilnoun

malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil, the scrofula.

‘He [Edward the Confessor] was the first that touched for the evil.’;

Eviladverb

In an evil manner; not well; ill; badly; unhappily; injuriously; unkindly.

‘It went evil with his house.’; ‘The Egyptians evil entreated us, and affected us.’;

Evilnoun

morally objectionable behavior

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’;

Evilnoun

the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice;

‘attempts to explain the origin of evil in the world’;

Eviladjective

morally bad or wrong;

‘evil purposes’; ‘an evil influence’; ‘evil deeds’;

Eviladjective

having the nature of vice

Eviladjective

tending to cause great harm

Eviladjective

having or exerting a malignant influence;

‘malevolent stars’; ‘a malefic force’;

Evil

Evil, in a general sense, is defined by what it is not—the opposite or absence of good. It can be an extremely broad concept, although in everyday usage it is often more narrowly used to talk about profound wickedness.