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evil [n][en]

1)	morally objectionable behavior

Synonyms :

immorality iniquity wickedness imoralidade iniqüidade perversidade maldad 邪恶 inmoralidad iniquidad безнравственность беззаконие 不道德罪孽 зло méchanceté 悪 malvagità 邪悪不道徳 immoralità iniquità unmoral ungerechtigkeit bosheit immoralité iniquité 음행 죄악 사악

2)	the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice; "attempts to explain the origin of evil in the world"

Synonyms :

evilness maldade maldad 邪恶 méchanceté malvagità bösartigkeit 邪悪

3)	that which causes harm or destruction or misfortune; "the evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones"- Shakespeare

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bad four_horsemen

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing: (http://www.foldoc.org/, Editor Denis Howe)

As used by a hacker, implies that some system, program, person, or institution is sufficiently maldesigned as to be not worth the bother of dealing with. Unlike the adjectives in the cretinous, losing, brain-damaged series, "evil" does not imply incompetence or bad design, but rather a set of goals or design criteria fatally incompatible with the speaker's. This usage is more an aesthetic and engineering judgment than a moral one in the mainstream sense. "We thought about adding a Blue Glue interface but decided it was too evil to deal with." "TECO is neat, but it can be pretty evil if you're prone to typos." Often pronounced with the first syllable lengthened, as /eeee'vil/.

Compare evil and rude.

[Jargon File]

(1994-12-12)

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