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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


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Derived Forms

  • ˈevilˌdoing, noun

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Other Words From

  • evil·doing noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of evildoer1

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

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Example Sentences

She battles evildoers wearing nothing but her own strategically placed hair.

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She hatches and fulfills brilliant if mildly arrogant plans, like building a maze around the convent as a means of isolating it and thus protecting it from evildoers.

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The child actress, now 15, has gone from a dimpled cherub to an undead evildoer in New Moon.

But just as Hanno was rising to look around him for the invisible evildoer, the loud shouts of many voices startled him.

Tell me your name, show that you are no evildoer, and after you have rested you may equip yourself and go your way.

And as she controlled the mystery of thieving so, in reality, she meted out punishment to the evildoer.

He showed how amid a show of outward happiness the canker-worm was always present to prey upon the heart of the evildoer.

Tolstoy's warning: "Do not oppose the evildoer," is not Morality, but an exaggerated parody of it, which renders it nugatory.

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