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noun ADJ. great | lesser This sort of job is a lesser evil than unemployment. | moral, social combating the social evils of poverty, disease and ignorance VERB + EVIL do His simple message was that God will punish those that do evil. | combat, fight, resist, turn (away) from You can always choose to resist evil. PHRASES the forces of evil a perpetual struggle between the forces of good and the forces of evil | good and evil not a simple choice between good and evil | the root of all evil He sees money as the root of all evil., adj. VERBS be, look, seem | become ADV. really, truly, very | wholly | basically, inherently, intrinsically He believes that all people are basically evil.
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evil
verbs
fight/combat evil
• Joan swore to fight evil in all its forms.
phrases
good and evil
• You have to teach your kids about right and wrong, good and evil.
the forces of evil
literary (= the people or things that increase the amount of evil in the world )
• The king knew he must fight the forces of evil or his homeland would perish.
something is the root of all evil
(= something is the main cause of bad things )
• Love of money is the root of all evil.
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