1
as in criminal
a person who commits moral wrongs
if good people stand by and do nothing, evildoers will triumph
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as in villain
a mean, evil, or unprincipled person
Iago from Shakespeare's Othello became one of the most notorious evildoers in all of literature
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Recent Examples of evildoer
The lone wolf might dangerously hand AGI over to evildoers, either by accident or on purpose.
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Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 11 June 2025
The trial itself, which began in Manhattan on May 12, has not yet revealed a network of super-famous evildoers.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 3 June 2025
That’s the name for the AI-successor to JARVIS, the super intelligence Iron Man once used to face off against evildoers like Thanos.
—Michael Ashley, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
The Entity is too abstract to qualify as a world-class evildoer.
—Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor, 22 May 2025
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Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 11 June 2025
The trial itself, which began in Manhattan on May 12, has not yet revealed a network of super-famous evildoers.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 3 June 2025
That’s the name for the AI-successor to JARVIS, the super intelligence Iron Man once used to face off against evildoers like Thanos.
—Michael Ashley, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
The Entity is too abstract to qualify as a world-class evildoer.
—Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor, 22 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for evildoer
Noun
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Betty Ann Tomlinson, 50, was charged Thursday afternoon with arson, conspiracy to commit arson and assisting a criminal.—
Meredith Colias-Pete,
Chicago Tribune,
12 July 2025
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Genetic genealogy: Building the family tree of a serial killer Retiree Barbara Rae-Venter never anticipated that her hobby of researching her family tree would lead to the capture of one of the most notorious criminals in California, the Golden State Killer.—
David Morgan
July 11,
CBS News,
11 July 2025
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The film is currently filming in London with Joe and Anthony Russo, the directors behind the highest-grossing MCU movies ever, back behind the camera; Downey now playing the chief villain; and a slew of stars from the lost era of Fox's X-Men movies reprising their roles for the first time in years.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
24 July 2025
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In 1994, Hogan joined WCW and reinvented himself as a villain, forming the New World Order (nWo) and ushering in a new era of edgy storytelling.—
Hannah Parry
Amanda Castro
Joshua Rhett Miller,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 July 2025
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So, people may feel compelled to condemn the wrongdoer to restore a sense of justice.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
8 July 2025
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Thanks to another recent court ruling, the FCC has also had a harder time fining wrongdoers, Quilici explained.—
Alix Martichoux,
The Hill,
20 June 2025
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King's polo playing husband, Bill Mitchell — who went on to become a director for Texaco — became the model for Daisy’s rich brute of a husband, Tom Buchanan.—
Jordan Runtagh,
People.com,
5 June 2025
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This freshly re-imagined Jag is worlds apart from that old German brute, but was similar in the sense of feeling wonderfully light and responsive, and utilizing hydraulic fluid to power its steering.—
Peter Nelson,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2025
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The American project is a patchwork of dreamers and doers, saints and sinners, stitched together by the thread of promise that stretches across generations.—
F. Willis Johnson,
Twin Cities,
10 July 2025
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Horses and men, dust and earth, saints and sinners.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
24 June 2025
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When Sinner got an early break in the fourth with another monster backhand, there was an inevitability about the outcome.—
Tim Ellis,
Forbes.com,
13 July 2025
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But the Cubs could also use him as a trade chip in a monster deal.—
Zach Pressnell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 July 2025
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“Evildoer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evildoer. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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