But along with the cartoon funk is an all-too-real story of police brutality embodied by a horde of evil Pigs.
One wonders if his subsequent battles with the “evil Empire” were animated by this belief.
Luke Skywalker is an evil robot who has fallen to the dark side of the force.
It is all too easy to be despondent in the face of what seems like the endless capacity of evil to reinvent itself.
But remember “Potter,” the evil banker played by Lionel Barrymore?
"His countenance and his voice troubled me, like the presence of evil," answered Philothea.
The best doctrines become the worst, when they are used for evil purposes.
I should be b-a-d, and I should sit up nights to invent new ways of evil.
From evil—physical, moral, and political—it is not our claim to be exempt.
But the evil has come with the good, and much fine gold has been corroded.
Old English yfel (Kentish evel) "bad, vicious, ill, wicked," from Proto-Germanic *ubilaz (cf. Old Saxon ubil, Old Frisian and Middle Dutch evel, Dutch euvel, Old High German ubil, German übel, Gothic ubils), from PIE *upelo-, from root *wap- (cf. Hittite huwapp- "evil").
"In OE., as in all the other early Teut. langs., exc. Scandinavian, this word is the most comprehensive adjectival expression of disapproval, dislike or disparagement" [OED]. Evil was the word the Anglo-Saxons used where we would use bad, cruel, unskillful, defective (adj.), or harm, crime, misfortune, disease (n.). The meaning "extreme moral wickedness" was in Old English, but did not become the main sense until 18c. Related: Evilly. Evil eye (Latin oculus malus) was Old English eage yfel. Evilchild is attested as an English surname from 13c.
Old English yfel (see evil (adj.)).
