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kwaadaardig — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • evil adjective Deeply immoral and cruel; deliberately intending to cause harm.
  • maleficent adj Causing harm, especially through evil intent.
  • malicious adj Intended to cause harm; showing ill will toward others.
  • malignant adjective Harmful or hostile in intent; wishing ill on others.
  • toxic adjective Poisonous; capable of causing illness or death if it enters the body.
  • truculent adj Cruel or savage.
  • unholy adj Not holy; wicked, evil, or sacrilegious.
  • wicked adj Morally bad; evil or cruel.

Senses

kwaadaardig is used for these senses in English:

  • evil Intending to harm; malevolent.
  • maleficent Harmful or evil in intent or effect.
  • malicious Intending to do harm; characterized by spite and malice.
  • toxic (figurative, of a person) Hateful or strongly antipathetic.
  • truculent Cruel or savage.
  • unholy Not holy; (by extension) evil, impure, or otherwise perverted.
  • wicked Evil or mischievous by nature; morally reprehensible.

evil — full definition

  1. adjective Deeply immoral and cruel; deliberately intending to cause harm.
  2. adjective Unpleasant or unlucky, in a milder, informal sense.
  3. noun Moral wickedness, or the force believed to cause suffering and wrongdoing in the world.

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