Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
evildoer [ee-vuh l-doo-er, ee-vuh l-doo-er] ExamplesWord Origin noun
- a person who does evil or wrong.
Origin of evildoer Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; see origin at evil, doer Related formse·vil·do·ing, noun Related Words for evildoers devil, murderer, sociopath, psychopath, troublemaker, gangster, villain, felon, criminal, lawbreaker, sinner Examples from the Web for evildoers Contemporary Examples of evildoers
But instead of moral outrage, I left not knowing who the evildoers were and if there was anything “evil” occurring at all.
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He said the more passionate gun-control advocates “must recognize that we are not evildoers.”
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Michael Daly
January 24, 2013
The Quran admonished as evildoers the perpetrators of the practice where girls were buried at birth.
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Shirin Tahir-Kheli
October 12, 2012
Rabbi Haim Druckman called those who seek to destroy houses in the illegal Givat Ulpana neighborhood of Beit El “evildoers.”
Elisheva Goldberg
June 4, 2012
He does not have a daddy complex or a religious obsession to rid the world of “evildoers.”
Eric Alterman
June 22, 2009
Historical Examples of evildoers
They knew what they were about; they fought the evildoers of their age with the weapons of their age.
G. K. Chesterton
Let me tell you, the Intelligencer is the evildoers’ nemesis.
Ward Moore
It was ordered that it should be left there till nightfall as an example to evildoers.
William Somerset Maugham
Evildoers, after they had spoken to a Manoba, would say that their reflections were gone.
Charles Dye
After the manner of evildoers, each charged the other with their misfortune.
Millicent Schwab Bender
British Dictionary definitions for evildoers evildoer noun
- a person who does evil
Derived Formsevildoing, noun Word Origin and History for evildoers evildoer n.