Evil Good Forces Bad ˈiːvl Struggle Eternal Pretend

• the eternal struggle between good and evil
• the forces of evil
• you cannot pretend there's no evil in the world.
• the evils of drugs/alcohol

evil

1. a force that causes bad things to happen; morally bad behaviour
• opposite good
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• the eternal struggle between good and evil
• the forces of evil
• You cannot pretend there's no evil in the world.
2. a bad or harmful thing; the bad effect of something
• the evils of drugs/alcohol
• social evils
3. the less unpleasant of two unpleasant choices
4. a thing that is bad or that you do not like but which you must accept for a particular reason
• The loss of jobs is regarded as a necessary evil in the fight against inflation.

Extra Examples

• He calls war ‘a necessary evil’.
• He sees money as the root of all evil.
• His simple message was that God will punish those that do evil.
• This sort of job is a lesser evil than unemployment.
• You can always choose to resist evil.
• a duty to defeat the evil of terrorism
• a perpetual struggle between the forces of good and the forces of evil
• combating the social evils of poverty, disease and ignorance
• not a simple choice between good and evil
• the intrinsic evil of taking a human life
• the pure evil in his soul
• He believed he could rid the world of the forces of evil.
• Humans have the capacity to do more evil than any other species on earth.
• The film is about the eternal struggle between good and evil.
• They hardly mentioned such social evils as racism and sexism.
• We were warned against the evils of drugs.
• You cannot pretend there’s no evil in the world.

Word Origin

• Old English yfel, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch euvel and German Übel.