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social evil

noun

  1. anything detrimental to a society or its citizens, as alcoholism, organized crime, etc.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of social evil1

First recorded in 1855–60

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Example Sentences

Heck, even the Pope tweeted, “Inequality is the root of social evil.”

With safe sex advocates on the run, Warren and Ssempa trained their sights on another social evil.

First, such an attitude is not a desirable one to adopt when seeking a remedy for a social evil.

The transportation of women has been a great social evil to the colonies.

Mr. Wellcome was for the propagation of Tuberculosis and the direct encouragement of the Social Evil.

All I am concerned about is in arriving at a sense of the enormity of the impulse behind the "social evil."

The second sentence says that no study of the social evil is complete which leaves out the causes of divorce.

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