evildoer

[ee-vuhl-doo-er, ee-vuhl-doo-er]

noun

1. a person who does evil or wrong.

evildoer

/ ˈiːvəlˌduːə /

noun

1. a person who does evil

Other Word Forms

• evildoing noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of evildoer¹

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; evil, doer

Example Sentences

That too many pardon the worst sins of the wealthiest evildoers is the fatal social flaw “The Beast in Me” observes with a piercing stare.

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The second characteristic is that these evildoers are brainiacs, they're incredibly intelligent.

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The “Common Side Effects” writers go to admirable lengths to explain why a cure-all mushroom could be hazardous; violence would soar, the medicine could fall into the wrong hands, evildoers would never die.

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Trump is a great danger who is comparable with other tyrants and evildoers who shouldn’t have been elected — but he was elected.

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That doesn’t excuse his insurrection, but it doesn’t make him a black-and-white evildoer, as some have claimed the movie does to men.

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